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This link: A Passionate Geography will take you to the route that Arthur and his men took, from England to Rome, in pursuit of wresting the authority of Rome from Lucius. I made the map in Google Maps; you can … Continue reading
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Not to give away the story, but Arthur ultimately slays Lucius in the countryside of Burgundy. Here is the account: “So Sir Lucyus with his swerde hit Arthure overthwarte the nose and gaff hym a wounde nyghe unto the tunge; … Continue reading
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In 2008, I began following the itinerary of Malory’s Roman War campaign. In that journey, I traveled from London to Winchester where Arthur held a royal feast, interrupted by the demands made by the Roman emperor’s ambassadors. They relayed the … Continue reading
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Though Malory doesn’t mention Oxford in his account of King Arthur’s Roman War campaign, that is where the second leg of my Roman War journey began. “The Language of Maps,” an interdisciplinary colloquium, was held at the Bodleian Library in … Continue reading
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“Poetry is the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings: it takes its origin from emotion recollected in tranquility.“ -William Wordsworth, Lyrical Ballads, 1802 Perhaps Wordsworth’s insight into poetry also extends to blogs and what I am calling “Itinerary Lit.” For me, … Continue reading
The genre of “literary landscape”–imaginative, creative non-fiction responses to the landscape–and the genre of literary travel itineraries have a long and popular history. And this is what this blog is about–reading the Roman War chapter of Malory’s Le Morte Darthur … Continue reading
Between perception and a response emerges a zone of feeling, a resonance, a vibration, a powerful affect that inaugurates the passionate geography evoked in Guiliana Bruno’s ‘Atlas of Emotion’ . . . –Iain Chambers, “Maritime Criticism and Theoretical Shipwrecks,” PMLA, … Continue reading
It befell when King Arthur had wedded Queen Guinevere and fulfilled the Round Table, and so after his marvellous knights and he had vanquished the most part of his enemies– . . . then so it befell that the Emperor … Continue reading
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A contemporary journey following the fictional itinerary of King Arthur from England to Rome. Click on the first post in May (see right-hand sidebar) and then follow the posts up to the present.
A Passionate Geography: Romancing King Arthur’s Roman War 