This is a list of books about King Arthur

King Arthur

King Arthur is a legendary British leader of the late 5th and early 6th centuries, who, according to Medieval histories and romances, led the defence of Britain against Saxon invaders in the early 6th century. The details of Arthur's story are mainly composed of folklore and literary invention, and...

, or his related world, family, friends or enemies.

10th century

• Annales Cambriae
  Annales Cambriae
  Annales Cambriae, or The Annals of Wales, is the name given to a complex of Cambro-Latin chronicles deriving ultimately from a text compiled from diverse sources at St David's in Dyfed, Wales, not later than the 10th century...
  
  Anonymous
• Preiddeu Annwfn
  Preiddeu Annwfn
  Preiddeu Annwfn or Preiddeu Annwn is a cryptic early medieval Welsh poem of sixty lines found in the Book of Taliesin. The text recounts an expedition with King Arthur to Annwfn or Annwn, a Welsh otherworld...
  
  attributed to Taliesin
  Taliesin
  Taliesin was an early British poet of the post-Roman period whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin...
  
  

Latin

• Vita Sancti Cadoc
  Cadoc
  Saint Cadoc , Abbot of Llancarfan, was one of the 6th century British Christian saints. His vita twice mentions King Arthur. The Abbey of Llancarfan, near Cowbridge in Glamorganshire, which he founded circa 518, became famous as a centre of learning...
  
  by Lifris circa 1061-1104 (Mentions Arthur and Cai)
• Vita Sancti Carannog
  Carantoc
  Saint Carantoc was a confessor and abbot of the early 6th century in Wales and what is now the English West Country.His early vita takes the form of a short homily...
  
  circa 1100 (Mentions Arthur)
• Vita Sancti Euflami circa 1100 (Mentions Arthur)
• Vita Sancti Paternus circa 1120s (Mentions Arthur and Caradoc)
• Gesta Regnum Anglorum by William of Malmesbury
  William of Malmesbury
  William of Malmesbury was the foremost English historian of the 12th century. C. Warren Hollister so ranks him among the most talented generation of writers of history since Bede, "a gifted historical scholar and an omnivorous reader, impressively well versed in the literature of classical,...
  
   1125 (Mentions Arthur)
• Historia Anglorum by Henry of Huntingdon
  Henry of Huntingdon
  Henry of Huntingdon , the son of a canon in the diocese of Lincoln, was a 12th century English historian, the author of a history of England, Historia anglorum, "the most important Anglo-Norman historian to emerge from the secular clergy". He served as archdeacon of Huntingdon...
  
   1129 (Mentions Arthur)
• Vita Santi Gildae by Caradoc of Llancarfan. A life of Saint Gildas the Wise
  Gildas
  Gildas was a 6th-century British cleric. He is one of the best-documented figures of the Christian church in the British Isles during this period. His renowned learning and literary style earned him the designation Gildas Sapiens...
  
  , with an early version of Malegant-Guenivere abduction narrative. circa 1120-1130
• Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth
  Geoffrey of Monmouth
  Geoffrey of Monmouth was a cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur...
  
  
  • Historia Regum Britanniae
    Historia Regum Britanniae
    The Historia Regum Britanniae is a pseudohistorical account of British history, written c. 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It chronicles the lives of the kings of the Britons in a chronological narrative spanning a time of two thousand years, beginning with the Trojans founding the British nation...
    
    circa 1136-8
  • Vita Merlini
    Vita Merlini
    Vita Merlini, or The Life of Merlin, is a work by the Norman-Welsh author Geoffrey of Monmouth, composed in Latin around AD 1150. It retells incidents from the life of the Brythonic seer Merlin, and is based on traditional material about him....
    
    circa 1140
• Life of Saint Kentigern
  Saint Mungo
  Saint Mungo is the commonly used name for Saint Kentigern . He was the late 6th century apostle of the Brythonic Kingdom of Strathclyde in modern Scotland, and patron saint and founder of the city of Glasgow.-Name:In Wales and England, this saint is known by his birth and baptismal name Kentigern...
  
  circa 1185 (Contains a version of the Merlin
  Merlin
  Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in the Arthurian legend. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written c. 1136, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures...
  
   legend, here called Lailoken)
• Vita Sancti Illtud
  Illtud
  Illtyd , was a Welsh saint, founder and abbot of Llanilltud Fawr in the Welsh county of Glamorgan...
  
  circa 1190s (Mentions Arthur and King Mark)

French and Anglo-Norman

• Roman de Brut
  Roman de Brut
  Roman de Brut or Brut is a verse literary history of Britain by the poet Wace. Written in the Norman language, it consists of 14,866 lines....
  
  by Wace
  Wace
  Wace was a Norman poet, who was born in Jersey and brought up in mainland Normandy , ending his career as Canon of Bayeux.-Life:...
  
   circa 1155 (an Anglo-Norman verse reworking of Historia Regum Brittania)
• Tristan
  Tristan and Iseult
  The legend of Tristan and Iseult is an influential romance and tragedy, retold in numerous sources with as many variations. The tragic story is of the adulterous love between the Cornish knight Tristan and the Irish princess Iseult...
  
  by Thomas of Britain
  Thomas of Britain
  Thomas of Britain was a french poet of the 12th century. He is known for his Old French poem Tristan, a version of the Tristan and Iseult legend that exists only in eight fragments, amounting to around 3,300 lines of verse, mostly from the latter part of the story...
  
   circa 1170s
• Tristan by Béroul
  Béroul
  Béroul was a Norman poet of the 12th century. He wrote Tristan, a Norman language version of the legend of Tristan and Iseult of which a certain number of fragments have been preserved; it is the earliest representation of the so-called "vulgar" version of the legend...
  
   circa 1170s
• The Lais
  The Lais of Marie de France
  The Lais of Marie de France are a series of twelve short narrative Breton lais by the poet Marie de France. They are written in the Anglo-Norman and were probably composed in the late 12th century. The short, narrative poems generally focus on glorifying the concept of courtly love through the...
  
  of Marie de France
  Marie de France
  Marie de France was a medieval poet who was probably born in France and lived in England during the late 12th century. She lived and wrote at an undisclosed court, but was almost certainly at least known about at the royal court of King Henry II of England...
  
   circa 1170s
  • Lanval
    Lanval
    "Lanval" is one of the Lais of Marie de France. Written in Anglo-Norman, it tells the story of a knight at King Arthur's court who is overlooked by the king, wooed by a fairy lady, given all manner of gifts by her, and subsequently refuses the advances of Queen Guinevere...
    
    
  • Chevrefoil
    Chevrefoil
    "Chevrefoil" is a Breton lai by the medieval poet Marie de France. The eleventh poem in the collection called The Lais of Marie de France, its subject is an episode from the romance of Tristan and Iseult. The title means "honeysuckle," a symbol of love in the poem...
    
    circa 1170s, an episode of the Tristan and Iseult story

• The poems of Chrétien de Troyes
  Chrétien de Troyes
  Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvère who flourished in the late 12th century. Perhaps he named himself Christian of Troyes in contrast to the illustrious Rashi, also of Troyes...
  
  
  • Erec and Enide
    Erec and Enide
    Erec and Enide is the first of Chrétien de Troyes' five romance poems, completed around 1170. It is one of three completed works by the author...
    
    circa 1170s
  • Cligés
    Cligès
    Cligès is a poem by the medieval French poet Chrétien de Troyes, dating from around 1176. Cligès is the second of five Arthurian Romances; Erec and Enide, Cligès, Yvain, Lancelot and Perceval. It tells the story of the knight Cligès and his love for his uncle's wife, Fenice...
    
    circa 1170s
  • Yvain, the Knight of the Lion
    Yvain, the Knight of the Lion
    Yvain, the Knight with the Lion is a romance by Chrétien de Troyes. It was probably written in the 1170s simultaneously with Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, and includes several references to the action in that poem...
    
    circa 1180s
  • Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
    Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart
    Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart is an Old French poem by Chrétien de Troyes. Chrétien probably composed the work at the same time as or slightly before writing Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, which refers to the action in Lancelot a number of times...
    
    circa 1180s
  • Perceval, le Conte du Graal circa 1190
  • Tristan mentioned but non-extant

• The poems of Robert de Boron
  Robert de Boron
  Robert de Boron was a French poet of the late 12th and early 13th centuries who is most notable as the author of the poems Joseph d'Arimathe and Merlin.-Work:...
  
  
  • Joseph d'Arimathie
    Joseph of Arimathea
    Joseph of Arimathea was, according to the Gospels, the man who donated his own prepared tomb for the burial of Jesus after Jesus' Crucifixion. He is mentioned in all four Gospels.-Gospel references:...
    
    
  • Merlin
  • Perceval

(Robert de Borons verse Josepheh of Arimathie and 300 lines of Merlin are extant. A prose version of Joseph d'Arimathie, Merlin, Perzival trilogy, supposedly by Robert exists in two MSS.)

German

• Tristan by Eilhart von Oberge
  Eilhart von Oberge
  Eilhart von Oberge was a German poet of the late 12th century. He is known exclusively through his Middle High German romance Tristrant, the oldest surviving complete version of the Tristan and Iseult story in any language. Tristrant is part of the "common" or "primitive" branch of the legend, best...
  
   circa 1170s
• Lanzelet
  Lanzelet
  Lanzelet is a medieval romance written by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven after 1194. It is the first treatment of the Lancelot tradition in German, and contains the earliest known account of the hero's childhood with the Lady of the Lake in any language. The poem consists of about 9,400 lines arranged in...
  
  by Ulrich von Zatzikhoven
  Ulrich von Zatzikhoven
  Ulrich von Zatzikhoven was the author of the Middle High German Arthurian romance Lanzelet.Ulrich's name and his place of origin are only known definitively from the work itself...
  
   late 12th century (a rendering of a lost French tale of Lancelot that likely predates Chrétien de Troyes's famous Lancelot or the Knight of the Cart. Ulrich von Zatzikhoven obtained a copy of the original book in 1194 and translated the work from French into German.)
• Erec and Iwein by Hartmann von Aue
  Hartmann von Aue
  Hartmann von Aue was a Middle High German poet. He introduced the courtly romance into German literature and, with Wolfram von Eschenbach and Gottfried von Strassburg, was one of the three great epic poets of Middle High German literature...
  
   late 12th century (German reworking of Chrétien de Troyes
  Chrétien de Troyes
  Chrétien de Troyes was a French poet and trouvère who flourished in the late 12th century. Perhaps he named himself Christian of Troyes in contrast to the illustrious Rashi, also of Troyes...
  
  's Yvain, the Knight of the Lion
  Yvain, the Knight of the Lion
  Yvain, the Knight with the Lion is a romance by Chrétien de Troyes. It was probably written in the 1170s simultaneously with Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart, and includes several references to the action in that poem...
  
  and Erec and Enide
  Erec and Enide
  Erec and Enide is the first of Chrétien de Troyes' five romance poems, completed around 1170. It is one of three completed works by the author...
  
  

French, Anglo-Norman or Provencal

• Roman de Fergus
  Roman de Fergus
  The Roman de Fergus is an Arthurian romance written in Old French probably at the very beginning of the 13th century, by a very well educated author who named himself Guillaume li Clers...
  
  by Guillaume le Clerc 1190s/1200s
• Jaufré
  Jaufré
  Jaufre is the only surviving Arthurian romance written in Occitan. Its main character is equivalent to Sir Griflet, a Knight of the Round Table known from other literature...
  
  Anonymous
• Lancelot-Grail
  Lancelot-Grail
  The Lancelot–Grail, also known as the Prose Lancelot, the Vulgate Cycle, or the Pseudo-Map Cycle, is a major source of Arthurian legend written in French. It is a series of five prose volumes that tell the story of the quest for the Holy Grail and the romance of Lancelot and Guinevere...
  
   Anonymous (begun 1210s, finished 1230s)
  • Estoire del Saint Grail
  • Estoire de Merlin
  • Lancelot propre
  • Queste del Saint Graal
  • Mort Artu
• Perlesvaus
  Perlesvaus
  Perlesvaus, also called Li Hauz Livres du Graal , is an Old French Arthurian romance dating to the first decade of the 13th century...
  
  Anonymous, circa 1210s
• Prose Tristan
  Prose Tristan
  The Prose Tristan is an adaptation of the Tristan and Iseult story into a long prose romance, and the first to tie the subject entirely into the arc of the Arthurian legend...
  
  by "Luce de Gat" (1230s) and "Helie de Boron" (circa 1240)
• Roman de Silence
  Silence (book)
  Le Roman de Silence is a 13th-century post-Arthurian romance written in Old French by an anonymous author about a protagonist named "Silence" and includes allegorical characters...
  
  by Heldrius de Cornwall circa 1260s
• Post-Vulgate Cycle
  Post-Vulgate Cycle
  The Post-Vulgate Cycle is one of the major Old French prose cycles of Arthurian literature. It is essentially a rehandling of the earlier Vulgate Cycle , with much left out and much added, including characters and scenes from the Prose Tristan.The Post-Vulgate, written probably between 1230 and...
  
   Anonymous (begun 1230s, finished 1240s)
• Roman de Roi Artus by Rustichello da Pisa
  Rustichello da Pisa
  Rustichello da Pisa, also known as Rusticiano and Rustigielo , was an Italian romance writer best known for cowriting Marco Polo's autobiography while they were in prison together in Genoa. A native Pisan, he may have been captured by the Genoese at the Battle of Meloria in 1284, amid a conflict...
  
  ; Franco-Italian, circa 1290s -1300

German

• Tristan by Gottfried von Strassburg
  Gottfried von Strassburg
  Gottfried von Strassburg is the author of the Middle High German courtly romance Tristan and Isolt, an adaptation of the 12th-century Tristan and Iseult legend. Gottfried's work is regarded, alongside Wolfram von Eschenbach's Parzival and the Nibelungenlied, as one of the great narrative...
  
   circa 1210s
• Parzival
  Parzival
  Parzival is a major medieval German romance by the poet Wolfram von Eschenbach, in the Middle High German language. The poem, commonly dated to the first quarter of the 13th century, is itself largely based on Chrétien de Troyes’s Perceval, the Story of the Grail and mainly centers on the Arthurian...
  
  by Wolfram von Eschenbach
  Wolfram von Eschenbach
  Wolfram von Eschenbach was a German knight and poet, regarded as one of the greatest epic poets of his time. As a Minnesinger, he also wrote lyric poetry.-Life:...
  
   circa 1210s
• Daniel von Blumenthal
  Daniel von Blumenthal
  Daniel von dem blühenden Tal is an Arthurian romance composed around 1220 by the Middle High German poet Der Stricker, who claimed he had received the story from a French troubadour...
  
  by Der Stricker circa 1220
• Diu Crône
  Diu Crône
  Diu Crône is a Middle High German Arthurian poem of about 30,000 lines, dating from around the 1220s and attributed to Heinrich von dem Türlin...
  
  Heinrich von dem Turlein
• Garel
  Garel
  Garel von dem blühenden Tal is a medieval Arthurian romance composed by Der Pleier around 1230-40. It appears to have been written in contradiction to Der Stricker's Daniel von Blumenthal. It consists of 21,310 lines in rhyming couplets; the beginning is missing.After a journey, King Arthur...
  
  by Der Pleier
  Der Pleier
  Der Pleier is the pen name of a Middle High German poet active between 1240 and 1270 whose real name is unknown. He is the author of three long romances all on Arthurian subjects, the most famous of which is Garel von dem blühenden Tal , but little else is known of him...
  
  , circa 1230s

Norse

• Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar by Brother Robert
  Brother Robert
  Brother Robert was a cleric working in Norway who adapted several French literary works into Old Norse during the reign of King Haakon IV of Norway . The most important of these, Tristrams saga ok Ísöndar, based on Thomas of Britain's Tristan, is notable as the only example of Thomas' "courtly...
  
   1226 (Norse reworking Tristan by Thomas of Britain
  Thomas of Britain
  Thomas of Britain was a french poet of the 12th century. He is known for his Old French poem Tristan, a version of the Tristan and Iseult legend that exists only in eight fragments, amounting to around 3,300 lines of verse, mostly from the latter part of the story...
  
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• Ivens Saga by Brother Robert 1226 (Norse reworking of Chrétien de Troyes' Yvain, the Knight of the Lion)
• Erex Saga, perhaps originally by Robert. (Text probably changed in MS. transmission. A Norse reworking of Chrétien's Erec and Enide)

English

• Brut
  Brut (Layamon)
  Layamon's Brut , also known as The Chronicle of Britain, is a Middle English poem compiled and recast by the English priest Layamon. The Brut is 16,095 lines long and narrates the history of Britain: it is the first historiography written in English since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle...
  
  by Layamon
  Layamon
  Layamon or Laghamon (ˈlaɣamon; in American English often modernised as ; ), occasionally written Lawman, was a poet of the early 13th century and author of the Brut, a notable English poem of the 12th century that was the first English language work to discuss the legends of Arthur and the...
  
   (English reworking of Geoffrey of Monmouth
  Geoffrey of Monmouth
  Geoffrey of Monmouth was a cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur...
  
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• Sir Tristrem circa 1300 (English reworking of Tristan by Thomas of Britain)
• Arthur and Merlin circa 1300

Dutch

• The Lancelot-Compilatie, an adaptation of the Lancelot-Grail, but including several other romances as well:
  • Morien
    Morien
    Morien or Moriaen is a 13th-century Arthurian romance in Middle Dutch. A 4,720-line version is preserved in the vast Lancelot-Compilatie, and a short fragment exists at the Royal Library at Brussels...
    
    , Anonymous
  • Torec, by Jacob van Maerlant
    Jacob van Maerlant
    Jacob van Maerlant was the greatest Flemish poet of the thirteenth century and one of the most important Middle Dutch authors during the Middle Ages.-Biography:...
    
    

Welsh

• Brut y Brenhinedd, Welsh chronicle adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth
  Geoffrey of Monmouth
  Geoffrey of Monmouth was a cleric and one of the major figures in the development of British historiography and the popularity of tales of King Arthur...
  
  's Historia Regum Britanniae
  Historia Regum Britanniae
  The Historia Regum Britanniae is a pseudohistorical account of British history, written c. 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth. It chronicles the lives of the kings of the Britons in a chronological narrative spanning a time of two thousand years, beginning with the Trojans founding the British nation...
  
  
• The Dream of Rhonabwy
  The Dream of Rhonabwy
  The Dream of Rhonabwy is a Middle Welsh prose tale. Set during the reign of Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys , it is dated to the late 12th or 13th century. It survives in only one manuscript, the Red Book of Hergest, and has been associated with the Mabinogion since its publication by Lady...
  
  , anonymous
• The Black Book of Carmarthen, anonymous Mentions Arthur

English

• Alliterative Morte Arthure
  Alliterative Morte Arthure
  The Alliterative Morte Arthure is a 4346-line Middle English alliterative poem, retelling the latter part of the legend of King Arthur. It is preserved in a single copy, in the early fifteenth-century Lincoln Thornton Manuscript.-History:...
  
  Anonymous
• Stanzic Morte Arthure Anonymous
• The Avowyng of Arthur
• The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
  The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle
  The Wedding of Sir Gawain and Dame Ragnelle is a 15th-century English poem, one of several versions of the "loathly lady" story popular during the Middle Ages...
  
  Anonymous
• The Awntyrs off Arthure
  The Awntyrs off Arthure
  The Awntyrs off Arthure at the Terne Wathelyne is an Arthurian romance of 702 lines written in Middle English alliterative verse. Despite its title, it centres on the deeds of Sir Gawain...
  
  Anonymous
• Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight
  Sir Gawain and the Green Knight is a late 14th-century Middle English alliterative romance outlining an adventure of Sir Gawain, a knight of King Arthur's Round Table. In the poem, Sir Gawain accepts a challenge from a mysterious warrior who is completely green, from his clothes and hair to his...
  
  by The Pearl Poet
• Sir Launfal
  Sir Launfal
  Sir Launfal is a 1045-line Middle English romance or Breton lay written by Thomas Chestre dating from the late-14th century. It is based primarily on the 538-line Middle English poem Sir Landevale, which in turn was based on Marie de France's lai Lanval, written in a form of French understood in...
  
  by Thomas Chestre
  Thomas Chestre
  Thomas Chestre was the author of a 14th century Middle English romance Sir Launfal, a verse romance of 1045 lines based ultimately on Marie de France's Breton lay Lanval...
  
  
• Sir Libeaus Desconus
  Libeaus Desconus
  Libeaus Desconus is a 14th century Middle English version of the popular "Fair Unknown" story. Its author is thought to be Thomas Chestre. The story matter displays strong parallels to that of Renaut de Beaujeu's Le Bel Inconnu; both versions describe the adventures of Gingalain, the son of King...
  
  
• Yvain and Gawain
  Yvain and Gawain
  Ywain and Gawain is an early-fourteenth century Middle English Arthurian verse romance based quite closely upon the late-twelfth century Old French romance The Knight of the Lion by Chrétien de Troyes.-Manuscripts:...
  
  
• Sir Perceval of Galles
  Sir Perceval of Galles
  Sir Perceval of Galles is a Middle English Arthurian verse romance whose protagonist, Sir Perceval, made his debut in medieval literature well over a hundred years before the composition of this work; in Chrétien de Troyes' final poem, the twelfth-century Old French Conte del Graal...
  
  
• Lancelot of the Laik

Welsh

(All dates for the Welsh compositions are controversial)

• Mabinogion
  Mabinogion
  The Mabinogion is the title given to a collection of eleven prose stories collated from medieval Welsh manuscripts. The tales draw on pre-Christian Celtic mythology, international folktale motifs, and early medieval historical traditions...
  
  Anonymous
• Culhwch and Olwen (recorded)
• The Dream of Rhonabwy
  The Dream of Rhonabwy
  The Dream of Rhonabwy is a Middle Welsh prose tale. Set during the reign of Madog ap Maredudd, prince of Powys , it is dated to the late 12th or 13th century. It survives in only one manuscript, the Red Book of Hergest, and has been associated with the Mabinogion since its publication by Lady...
  
  
• The Welsh Romances
  Welsh Romances
  The Three Welsh Romances are three Middle Welsh tales associated with the Mabinogion. They are versions of Arthurian tales that also appear in the work of Chrétien de Troyes. Critics have debated whether the Welsh Romances are based on Chrétien's poems or if they derive from a shared original...
  
  
  • Owain, or the Lady of the Fountain
  • Geraint and Enid
  • Peredur, son of Efrawg

Greek

• Presbys Hippotes (Greek reworking of part of Rustichello da Pisa
  Rustichello da Pisa
  Rustichello da Pisa, also known as Rusticiano and Rustigielo , was an Italian romance writer best known for cowriting Marco Polo's autobiography while they were in prison together in Genoa. A native Pisan, he may have been captured by the Genoese at the Battle of Meloria in 1284, amid a conflict...
  
  's Compilations

English

• Arthur
• Le Morte d'Arthur
  Le Morte d'Arthur
  Le Morte d'Arthur is a compilation by Sir Thomas Malory of Romance tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, and the Knights of the Round Table...
  
  by Sir Thomas Malory
  Thomas Malory
  Sir Thomas Malory was an English writer, the author or compiler of Le Morte d'Arthur. The antiquary John Leland as well as John Bale believed him to be Welsh, but most modern scholars, beginning with G. L...
  
  
• Prose Merlin
• "King Arthur and King Cornwall
  King Arthur and King Cornwall
  "King Arthur and King Cornwall" is an English ballad surviving in fragmentary form in the 17th-century Percy Folio manuscript. An Arthurian story, it was collected by Francis James Child as Child Ballad 30. Unlike other Child Ballads, but like the Arthurian "The Boy and the Mantle" and "The...
  
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• Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle
  Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle
  Sir Gawain and the Carle of Carlisle is a Middle English tail-rhyme romance of 660 lines, composed in about 1400. A similar story is told in a 17th century minstrel piece found in the Percy Folio and known as The Carle of Carlisle...
  
  

English

• Arthur of Little Britain
• The Greene Knight
  The Greene Knight
  The Greene Knight is a late medieval rhyming romance, found in the Percy Folio Manuscript. The storyline effectively parallels the more famous Sir Gawain and the Green Knight in describing the dealings of Gawain, King Arthur's nephew, with the Greene Knight.The text was edited by Thomas Hahn for...
  
  circa 1500
• The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain
  The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain
  The Knightly Tale of Gologras and Gawain is a Middle Scots Arthurian romance. An alliterative poem, it earliest copy survives in a printed edition now lying in the National Library of Scotland dated 8 April, 1508; no manuscript copy of this lively and exciting tale has survived...
  
  1508
• The Jeaste of Sir Gawain
• The Misfortunes of Arthur
  The Misfortunes of Arthur
  The Misfortunes of Arthur, Uther Pendragon's son reduced into tragical notes is a play by the 16th-century English dramatist Thomas Hughes. Written in 1587, it was performed at Greenwich before Queen Elizabeth I on February 28, 1588...
  
  by Thomas Hughes 1587
• The Faerie Queene
  The Faerie Queene
  The Faerie Queene is an incomplete English epic poem by Edmund Spenser. The first half was published in 1590, and a second installment was published in 1596. The Faerie Queene is notable for its form: it was the first work written in Spenserian stanza and is one of the longest poems in the English...
  
  by Edmund Spenser
  Edmund Spenser
  Edmund Spenser was an English poet best known for The Faerie Queene, an epic poem and fantastical allegory celebrating the Tudor dynasty and Elizabeth I. He is recognised as one of the premier craftsmen of Modern English verse in its infancy, and one of the greatest poets in the English...
  
   1590

English

• The Birth of Merlin
  The Birth of Merlin
  The Birth of Merlin, or, The Child Hath Found his Father is a Jacobean play, first performed in 1622 at the Curtain Theatre in Shoreditch. It contains a comic depiction of the birth of the fully grown Merlin to a country girl, and also features figures from Arthurian legend, including Uther...
  
  , or, The Childe Hath Found His Father by William Rowley (?1620; first published 1662)

• Works of Richard Blackmore
  Richard Blackmore
  Sir Richard Blackmore , English poet and physician, is remembered primarily as the object of satire and as an example of a dull poet. He was, however, a respected physician and religious writer....
  
  
  • Prince Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Ten Books (1695)
  • King Arthur: An Heroick Poem in Twelve Books (1697)

18th century

• Warton, Thomas (1728–1790)
  • "The Grave of King Arthur" (1777)
  • "On King Arthur's Round-table at Winchester" (1777)
• Vortigern and Rowena
  Vortigern and Rowena
  Vortigern and Rowena, or Vortigern, an Historical Play is a play that was touted as a newly discovered work by William Shakespeare when it first appeared in 1796. It was eventually revealed to be a Shakespeare hoax, the product of prominent forger William Henry Ireland. Its first and only...
  
  by W. H. Ireland (1799) (A Shakespearian forgery)

19th century

• The Lady of Shalott
  The Lady of Shalott
  "The Lady of Shalott" is a Victorian ballad by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson . Like his other early poems – "Sir Lancelot and Queen Guinevere" and "Galahad" – the poem recasts Arthurian subject matter loosely based on medieval sources.-Overview:Tennyson wrote two versions of the poem, one...
  
  by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1833)
• The Legends of King Arthur and His Knights by James Knowles (1862)
• The Boy's King Arthur by Sidney Lanier
  Sidney Lanier
  Sidney Lanier was an American musician and poet.-Biography:Sidney Lanier was born February 3, 1842, in Macon, Georgia, to parents Robert Sampson Lanier and Mary Jane Anderson; he was mostly of English ancestry. His distant French Huguenot ancestors immigrated to England in the 16th century...
  
   (1880)
• Tristram of Lyonesse
  Tristram of Lyonesse
  "Tristram of Lyonesse" is a long epic poem written by the British poet Algernon Charles Swinburne, that recounts in grand fashion the famous medieval story of the ill-fated lovers Tristan and Isolde . It was first published in 1882 by Chatto and Windus, in a volume entitled Tristram of Lyonesse and...
  
  by Algernon Charles Swinburne
  Algernon Charles Swinburne
  Algernon Charles Swinburne was an English poet, playwright, novelist, and critic. He invented the roundel form, wrote several novels, and contributed to the famous Eleventh Edition of the Encyclopaedia Britannica...
  
   (1882)
• Idylls of the King
  Idylls of the King
  Idylls of the King, published between 1856 and 1885, is a cycle of twelve narrative poems by the English poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson which retells the legend of King Arthur, his knights, his love for Guinevere and her tragic betrayal of him, and the rise and fall of Arthur's kingdom...
  
  by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (1856–1885)
• A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
  A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court is an 1889 novel by American humorist and writer Mark Twain. The book was originally titled A Yankee in King Arthur's Court...
  
  by Mark Twain
  Mark Twain
  Samuel Langhorne Clemens , better known by his pen name Mark Twain, was an American author and humorist...
  
   (1889)
• Brayhard; the Strange Adventures of One Ass and Seven Champions by Edmund Downey

20th century

• King Arthur and his Knights by Maude Radford
• Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel
  Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel
  Arthur Rex: A Legendary Novel is a 1978 novel by American author Thomas Berger. Berger offers his own take on the legends of King Arthur, from the heroic monarch's inauspicious conception, to his childhood in bucolic Wales, his rise to the throne, his discovery of the great sword Excalibur, his...
  
  by Thomas Berger
• Howard Pyle
  Howard Pyle
  Howard Pyle was an American illustrator and author, primarily of books for young people. A native of Wilmington, Delaware, he spent the last year of his life in Florence, Italy.__FORCETOC__...
  
   - In a four volume set including:
  • "The Story of King Arthur and His Knights" (1903)
  • "The Story of the Champions of the Round Table" (1905)
  • "The Story of Sir Launcelot and His Companions" (1907)
  • "The Story of the Grail and the Passing of King Arthur" (1910)
• Kairo-kō
  Kairo-ko
  is a 1905 novel by the Japanese author Natsume Sōseki. The earliest, and only major, prose treatment of the Arthurian legend in Japanese, it chronicles the adulterous love triangle between Lancelot, Guinevere, and Elaine of Astolat.-Plot summary:...
  
   (1905) by Natsume Sōseki
  Natsume Soseki
  , born ', is widely considered to be the foremost Japanese novelist of the Meiji period . He is best known for his novels Kokoro, Botchan, I Am a Cat and his unfinished work Light and Darkness. He was also a scholar of British literature and composer of haiku, Chinese-style poetry, and fairy tales...
  
  
• War in Heaven (1930) by Charles W. S. Williams, a "modern-day" (20th century) quest for the Holy Grail
• Taliessin through Logres (1938) and The Region of the Summer Stars (1944) by Charles W. S. Williams (poem cycles)
• The Once and Future King
  The Once and Future King
  The Once and Future King is an Arthurian fantasy novel written by T. H. White. It was first published in 1958 and is mostly a composite of earlier works written in a period between 1938 and 1941....
  
  by T. H. White
  T. H. White
  Terence Hanbury White was an English author best known for his sequence of Arthurian novels, The Once and Future King, first published together in 1958.-Biography:...
  
   including
  • The Sword and the Stone (1938)
  • The Queen of Air and Darkness
    The Queen of Air and Darkness
    The Queen of Air and Darkness, originally titled The Witch in the Wood, is a novel by English writer T. H. White. It is the second book in his epic work, The Once and Future King...
    
    (or The Witch in the Wood) (1939)
  • The Ill-Made Knight
    The Ill-Made Knight
    "The Ill-Made Knight" is the third book in the epic novel The Once and Future King, by T. H. White. It was first published in 1940, but is usually found today only in collected editions of all four books of the novel.-Plot summary:...
    
    (1940)
  • The Candle in the Wind
    The Candle in the Wind
    The Candle in the Wind is the fourth book from the collection The Once and Future King by T. H. White. It deals with the last weeks of Arthur's reign, his dealings with his son Mordred's revolts, Guenever and Lancelot's demise, and his perception of right and wrong.-Plot:The story begins with...
    
    (1958)
  • The Book of Merlyn
    The Book of Merlyn
    The Book of Merlyn is an Arthurian fantasy book written by T. H. White. It is the conclusion of The Once and Future King, but it was published separately and posthumously.-Plot summary:...
    
    (1958)
• That Hideous Strength
  That Hideous Strength
  That Hideous Strength is a 1945 novel by C. S. Lewis, the final book in Lewis's theological science fiction Space Trilogy. The events of this novel follow those of Out of the Silent Planet and Perelandra and once again feature the philologist Elwin Ransom...
  
  (1945) by C. S. Lewis
  C. S. Lewis
  Clive Staples Lewis , commonly referred to as C. S. Lewis and known to his friends and family as "Jack", was a novelist, academic, medievalist, literary critic, essayist, lay theologian and Christian apologist from Belfast, Ireland...
  
  
• The Three Damosels (1978) and The Enchantresses (1998) by Vera Chapman
  Vera Chapman
  Vera Chapman , also known as Vera Ivy May Fogerty, and within the Tolkien Society as Belladonna Took, was an author and founder of the first Tolkien Society, and also wrote a number of pseudo-historical and Arthurian books.-Life:...
  
   (the latter with Mike Ashley
  Mike Ashley (writer)
  Michael Ashley is a British bibliographer, author and editor of science fiction, mystery, and fantasy.He edits the long-running Mammoth Book series of short story anthologies, each arranged around a particular theme in mystery, fantasy, or science fiction...
  
  )
• The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
  The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights
  The Acts of King Arthur and His Noble Knights is John Steinbeck's retelling of the Arthurian legend, based on the Winchester Manuscript text of Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur. He began his adaptation in November 1956. Steinbeck had long been a lover of the Arthurian legends...
  
  (1975) by John Steinbeck
  John Steinbeck
  John Ernst Steinbeck, Jr. was an American writer. He is widely known for the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Grapes of Wrath and East of Eden and the novella Of Mice and Men...
  
  
• The Mists of Avalon
  The Mists of Avalon
  The Mists of Avalon is a 1983 novel by Marion Zimmer Bradley, in which she relates the Arthurian legends from the perspective of the female characters.-Plot introduction:...
  
  (1983) by Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Marion Zimmer Bradley
  Marion Eleanor Zimmer Bradley was an American author of fantasy novels such as The Mists of Avalon and the Darkover series. Many critics have noted a feminist perspective in her writing. Her first child, David R...
  
  
• The Road to Avalon (1988) by Joan Wolf
  Joan Wolf
  Joan Wolf is an American writer of romance novels.Wolf grew up in the Bronx, New York. She obtained a Bachelor's degree in Mercy College and Master in English and Comparative Literature in Hunter College.-Single novels:...
  
  
• The Child Queen (1994), The High Queen (1995), (collected in Queen of Camelot
  Queen of Camelot
  Queen of Camelot is an Arthurian-legend based novel shown through the viewpoint of Queen Guinevere. It is a combination of two of McKenzie's previous books The Child Queen and The High Queen...
  
  (2002)), Prince of Dreams (2004), and Grail Prince
  Grail Prince
  Grail Prince, a 2003 novel by Nancy McKenzie written in the tradition of Arthurian legends, recounts a version of Galahad's quest for the Holy Grail...
  
  (2003) by Nancy McKenzie
  Nancy McKenzie
  Nancy Affleck McKenzie is an American historical fiction writer. Her primary focus is Arthurian legend.-Publishing career:McKenzie published The Child Queen in 1994, and its sequel, The High Queen, a year later...
  
  
• Hallowed Isle by Diana L. Paxson
  Diana L. Paxson
  Diana L. Paxson is an author, primarily in the fields of Paganism and Heathenism. Her published works include fantasy and historical fiction novels, as well as numerous short stories...
  
  : The Book of the Sword (1999), The Book of the Spear (1999), The Book of the Cauldron (1999), The Book of the Stone (2000).
• Sword at Sunset
  Sword at Sunset
  Sword at Sunset is a 1963 book by Rosemary Sutcliff, part of her The Eagle of the Ninth series. It is a modern interpretation of the legends of King Arthur....
  
  (1963) and The Sword and the Circle
  The Sword and the Circle
  The Sword and the Circle: King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table is a children's novel by Rosemary Sutcliff and was first published in 1981. It is a retelling of the story of King Arthur and his Knights of the Round Table...
  
  (1981, juvenile) by Rosemary Sutcliff
  Rosemary Sutcliff
  Rosemary Sutcliff CBE was a British novelist, and writer for children, best known as a writer of historical fiction and children's literature. Although she was primarily a children's author, the quality and depth of her writing also appeals to adults; Sutcliff herself once commented that she wrote...
  
  
• I am Mordred
  I am mordred
  I Am Mordred is a fantasy novel written by Nancy Springer. It was published in 2001.The story starts out with King Arthur placing all newborns born on May 30 on a boat to drown, including his own son, Mordred. After a long, hard, voyage through the cold waters of the ocean, only Mordred survives...
  
  (1998) and I am Morgan le Fay (2001) by Nancy Springer
  Nancy Springer
  Nancy Connor Springer is an American author of fantasy, young adult literature, mystery, and science fiction. Her novel Larque on the Wing won the Tiptree Award, and she has also received the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America.-Series:Book of the Isle* 1. The White Hart * 2...
  
  
• Porius
  Porius
  Porius is a spider genus of the Salticidae family . Both described species are endemic to New Guinea.-Species:* Porius decempunctatus * Porius papuanus...
  
  (1951) by John Cowper Powys
  John Cowper Powys
  -Biography:Powys was born in Shirley, Derbyshire, in 1872, the son of the Reverend Charles Francis Powys , who was vicar of Montacute, Somerset for thirty-two years, and Mary Cowper Johnson, a descendent of the poet William Cowper. He came from a family of eleven children, many of whom were also...
  
  
• The Great Captains (1956) by Henry Treece
  Henry Treece
  Henry Treece was a British poet and writer, who worked also as a teacher, and editor. He is perhaps best remembered now as a historical novelist, particularly as a children's historical novelist, although he also wrote some adult historical novels.-Life and work:Treece was born in Wednesbury,...
  
  
• The Guinevere trilogy
  Guinevere trilogy
  The Guinevere trilogy is a trilogy of historical novels written by Persia Woolley about the Arthurian legend from the first-person perspective of King Arthur's wife, Guinevere....
  
   by Persia Woolley
  Persia Woolley
  Persia Woolley is an author, perhaps best known for her Guinevere trilogy. She also has written a number of works on writing, such as How to Write and Sell Historical Fiction.-Works:...
  
  
  • Child of the Northern Spring
    Child of the Northern Spring
    Child of the Northern Spring is the first novel in Persia Woolley's Guinevere trilogy, about the Arthurian legend. The novel is written in first person perspective narrated by Guinevere in the form of a frame narrative.-Plot summary:...
    
    (1987)
  • Queen of the Summer Stars
    Queen of the Summer Stars
    Queen of the Summer Stars is a 1991 novel by Persia Woolley and is the second volume of the Guinevere trilogy that relate the Arthurian legend from the perspective of Guinevere...
    
    (1991)
  • Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn
    Guinevere: The Legend in Autumn
    Guinevere: The Legend of Autumn is a 1991 novel by Persia Woolley. It is the third book of the Guinevere trilogy. The novel relates the events of the Arthurian legend in first-person perspective from the point of view of Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur...
    
    (1993)
• The Guenevere novels by Rosalind Miles
  Rosalind Miles
  Rosalind Miles is an author born and raised in England and now living in Kent, England. She has written 23 works of fiction and non-fiction. As a child, Miles suffered from polio, and had to undergo several months of treatment. At high school Miles acquired a working knowledge of Latin and Greek,...
  
  
  • Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country
    Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country
    Guenevere, Queen of the Summer Country is a novel by Rosalind Miles, based on Arthurian legend. It chronicles the life of Queen Guenevere from her perspective, from childhood to the blossoming of her relationship with Lancelot.-Plot summary:...
    
    (1999)
  • The Knight of the Sacred Lake
    The Knight of the Sacred Lake
    The Knight of the Sacred Lake is a 2001 historical fantasy novel by Rosalind Miles.-Plot introduction:The Knight of the Sacred Lake is a variant of an Arthurian legend...
    
    (2001)
  • Child of the Holy Grail
• Knight Life
  Knight Life
  Knight Life , is an Arthurian fantasy novel by Peter David. The book was first published in 1987, and an expanded, updated edition of the book was published by Ace Books in 2002.-Plot summary :...
  
  (1987), One Knight Only (2004) and Fall of Knight (2007) by Peter David
  Peter David
  Peter Allen David , often abbreviated PAD, is an American writer of comic books, novels, television, movies and video games...
  
  
• The Merlin series by Mary Stewart
  Mary Stewart
  Mary Florence Elinor Stewart is a popular English novelist, best known for her Merlin series, which straddles the boundary between the historical novel and the fantasy genre.-Career:...
  
  
  • The Crystal Cave
    The Crystal Cave
    The Crystal Cave is a 1970 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart. The first in a quintet of novels covering the Arthurian legend, it is followed by The Hollow Hills.-Plot introduction:...
    
    (1970)
  • The Hollow Hills
    The Hollow Hills
    The Hollow Hills is a novel by Mary Stewart. It is the second in a quintet of novels covering the Arthurian Legends. This book is preceded by The Crystal Cave and succeeded by The Last Enchantment...
    
    (1973)
  • The Last Enchantment
    The Last Enchantment
    The Last Enchantment is a 1979 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart. It is the third in a quintet of novels covering the Arthurian legend, preceded by The Hollow Hills and succeeded by The Wicked Day.-Plot introduction:...
    
    (1979)
  • The Wicked Day
    The Wicked Day
    The Wicked Day is a 1983 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart. The fourth in a quintet of novels covering the Arthurian legend, it is preceded by The Last Enchantment and succeeded by The Prince and the Pilgrim.-Plot introduction:...
    
    (1983)
  • The Prince and the Pilgrim
    The Prince and the Pilgrim
    The Prince and the Pilgrim is a 1995 fantasy novel by Mary Stewart. Preceded by The Wicked Day, it is the fifth installment in a number of novels of hers covering the Arthurian legend.-Plot introduction:...
    
    (1995)
• Merlin's Godson by H. Warner Munn
  H. Warner Munn
  Harold Warner Munn was an American writer of fantasy, horror and poetry. He was an early friend and associate of authors H. P. Lovecraft and Seabury Quinn...
  
  
  • King of the World's Edge (1936)
  • The Ship from Atlantis (1967)
  • Merlin's Ring
    Merlin's Ring
    Merlin's Ring is a fantasy novel by H. Warner Munn, the third in a series of three based on Arthurian legend. Originally intended for publication by Ballantine Books as a volume of the celebrated Ballantine Adult Fantasy series, it actually saw print only after the series was discontinued. It was...
    
    (1974)
• The Arthor series by A. A. Attanasio
  A. A. Attanasio
  Alfred Angelo Attanasio, born on September 20, 1951 in Newark, New Jersey, is an author of fantasy and science fiction. His science-fiction novel Radix was nominated for the 1981 Nebula Award for Best Novel and was followed by three other novels, the four books, together, comprising the critically...
  
  
  • The Dragon and the Unicorn
  • The Eagle and the Sword
  • The Wolf and the Crown
  • The Serpent and the Grail
• The Warlord Chronicles
  The Warlord Chronicles
  The Warlord Chronicles is a trilogy of books about Arthurian Britain written by Bernard Cornwell...
  
  by Bernard Cornwell
  Bernard Cornwell
  Bernard Cornwell OBE is an English author of historical novels. He is best known for his novels about Napoleonic Wars rifleman Richard Sharpe which were adapted into a series of Sharpe television films.-Biography:...
  
  
  • The Winter King
  • Enemy of God
    Enemy of God (novel)
    Enemy of God is the second book in The Warlord Chronicles series by Bernard Cornwell. The trilogy tells the legend of Arthur seen through the eyes of his follower Derfel Cadarn.-Plot introduction:...
    
    
  • Excalibur
    Excalibur
    Excalibur is the legendary sword of King Arthur, sometimes attributed with magical powers or associated with the rightful sovereignty of Great Britain. Sometimes Excalibur and the Sword in the Stone are said to be the same weapon, but in most versions they are considered separate. The sword was...
    
    
• By Jane Yolen
  Jane Yolen
  Jane Hyatt Yolen is an American author and editor of almost 300 books. These include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children's books...
  
  :
  • Sword of the Rightful King
  • The Young Merlin Trilogy
• By Gerald Morris
  Gerald Morris
  Gerald Morris is an American author. Morris is known for his series of stories for preteen and teen readers based in the Middle Ages during the time of King Arthur...
  
  :
  • The Squire's Tale
  • The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
    The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady
    The Squire, His Knight, and His Lady is a book written by Gerald Morris. Its prequel is The Squire's Tale, also written by Gerald Morris.This book tells the tale of Gawain and Terence's journey to the fabled Green Chapel, the home of the Green Knight...
    
    
  • The Savage Damsel and the Dwarf
  • Parsifal's Page
  • The Ballad of Sir Dinadan
  • The Princess, the Crone, and the Dung-Cart Knight
  • The Lioness and her Knight
  • The Quest of the Fair Unknown
  • Squire's Quest
  • The Adventures of Sir Givret the Short
  • The Adventures of Sir Lancelot the Great
• By Molly Cochran and Warren Murphy
  Warren Murphy
  Warren Murphy is an American author, most famous as the co-creator of The Destroyer series, the basis for the film Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins. He worked as a reporter and editor and after service during the Korean War, he drifted into politics.Murphy also wrote the screenplay for Lethal...
  
  
  • The Forever King
  • The Broken Sword
    The Broken Sword
    The Broken Sword is a fantasy novel written by Poul Anderson in 1954. It was issued in a revised edition by Ballantine Books as the twenty-fourth volume of their Ballantine Adult Fantasy series in January 1971. The original text was returned to print by Gollancz in 2002.-Plot:The book tells the...
    
    
  • The Third Magic
    The Third Magic
    The Third Magic is a fantasy book written by Welwyn Wilton Katz and published by Groundwood Books in 1988. It was for this work that Katz received the Governor General's Literary Award...
    
    
• The Pendragon Cycle
  Pendragon Cycle
  The Pendragon Cycle is a series of fantasy or semi-historical books based on the Arthurian legend, written by Stephen R. Lawhead. They are:*Taliesin *Merlin *Arthur *Pendragon *Grail...
  
   by Stephen Lawhead
  • Taliesin
    Taliesin
    Taliesin was an early British poet of the post-Roman period whose work has possibly survived in a Middle Welsh manuscript, the Book of Taliesin...
    
    (1987)
  • Merlin
    Merlin
    Merlin is a legendary figure best known as the wizard featured in the Arthurian legend. The standard depiction of the character first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, written c. 1136, and is based on an amalgamation of previous historical and legendary figures...
    
    (1988)
  • Arthur
    Arthur
    Arthur is a common masculine given name. Its etymology is disputed, but its popularity derives from its being the name of the legendary hero King Arthur....
    
    (1989)
  • Pendragon
    Pendragon
    Pendragon or Pen Draig, meaning "head dragon" or "chief dragon" , is the name of several traditional Kings of the Britons:...
    
    (1994)
  • Grail (1997)
  • Avalon
    Avalon
    Avalon is a legendary island featured in the Arthurian legend. It first appears in Geoffrey of Monmouth's 1136 pseudohistorical account Historia Regum Britanniae as the place where King Arthur's sword Excalibur was forged and later where Arthur was...
    
    
• The Last Pendragon by Robert Rice (1991)
• The Quest for Merlin by Nikolai Tolstoy
  Nikolai Tolstoy
  Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky is an Anglo-Russian historian and author who writes under the name Nikolai Tolstoy. A member of the prominent Tolstoy family, he is of part Russian descent and is the stepson of the author Patrick O'Brian...
  
   Non-fiction (1985)
• The Coming of the King: The First Book of Merlin
  The Coming of the King
  The Coming of the King: The First Book of Merlin is a 1988 historical fantasy novel by Nikolai Tolstoy drawing upon Arthurian legend and more broadly, Celtic and Germanic mythology...
  
   by Nikolai Tolstoy
  Nikolai Tolstoy
  Count Nikolai Dmitrievich Tolstoy-Miloslavsky is an Anglo-Russian historian and author who writes under the name Nikolai Tolstoy. A member of the prominent Tolstoy family, he is of part Russian descent and is the stepson of the author Patrick O'Brian...
  
   (1988)
• Stones of Power by David Gemmell
  David Gemmell
  David Andrew Gemmell was a bestselling British author of heroic fantasy. A former journalist and newspaper editor, Gemmell had his first work of fiction published in 1984. He went on to write over thirty novels. Best known for his debut, Legend, Gemmell's works display violence, yet also explore...
  
  
  • Ghost King (1988)
  • Last Sword of Power (1988)
• By Anonymous
  Anonymous work
  Anonymous works are works, such as art or literature, that have an anonymous, undisclosed, or unknown creator or author. In the United States it is legally defined as "a work on the copies or phonorecords of which no natural person is identified as author."...
  
  
  • King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
    King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
    King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table is a children's novel written by Roger Lancelyn Green. It was first published in Puffin Books in 1953 and has been frequently reprinted. In 2008 it was reissued in the Puffin Classics series. This edition has an introduction by David Almond and...
    
    (Illustrated Junior Library, Deluxe edition, September 1, 1950)
• By Roger Lancelyn Green and Lotte Reiniger
  Lotte Reiniger
  Charlotte "Lotte" Reiniger was a German silhouette animator and film director.- Early life :Lotte Reiniger was born in Berlin-Charlottenburg, German Empire, on June 2, 1899...
  
   (Illustrator)
  • To the Chapel Perilous Naomi Mitchison
    Naomi Mitchison
    Naomi May Margaret Mitchison, CBE was a Scottish novelist and poet. She was appointed CBE in 1981; she was also entitled to call herself Lady Mitchison, CBE since 5 October 1964 .- Childhood and family background :Naomi Margaret Haldane was...
    
     (1955)
  • Our man In Camelot by Anthony Price
    Anthony Price
    Anthony Price is an author of espionage thrillers.-Life and work:Price attended The King's School, Canterbury and served in the British Army from 1947 to 1949, reaching the rank of Captain. He then studied at Merton College, Oxford until 1952, earning the MA degree...
    
     (1975)(The sixth book in the Dr David Audley series) Uses the Arthur myth as a muguffin in a modern spy thriler.
  • King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
    King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table
    King Arthur and His Knights of the Round Table is a children's novel written by Roger Lancelyn Green. It was first published in Puffin Books in 1953 and has been frequently reprinted. In 2008 it was reissued in the Puffin Classics series. This edition has an introduction by David Almond and...
    
    (Puffin Classics, Reissue edition March 1, 1995)
• By Parke Godwin
  • Firelord (1980)
  • Beloved Exile (1984)
  • The Last Rainbow (1985)
• The Tales of Arthur, books of The Keltiad
  The Keltiad
  The Keltiad is a body of fantasy works written by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison. Currently there are eight novels in the series.The books are set in a star system far from our own, where various Celtic peoples emigrated after the rise of Christianity and the purge of the Old Religion that followed...
  
  , by Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
  Patricia Kennealy-Morrison
  Patricia Kennealy-Morrison is an American author and journalist. Her published works include rock criticism, a memoir, and a series of science fiction/fantasy and murder mystery novels...
  
  
  • The Hawk's Grey Feather (1991)
  • The Oak Above the Kings (1994)
  • The Hedge of Mist (1996)
• A Dream of Eagles
  A Dream of Eagles
  A Dream of Eagles is a historical novel series written by the Canadian author Jack Whyte. It was published in the United States as the Camulod Chronicles....
  
  (Camulod Chronicles) by Jack Whyte
  Jack Whyte
  Jack Whyte is a Scottish-Canadian novelist of historical fiction. Born and raised in Scotland, Whyte has been living in Canada since 1967. He resides in Kelowna, British Columbia....
  
  
  • The Sky Stone (1992)
  • The Singing Sword
    The Singing Sword
    The Singing Sword is a historical fiction novel written by Jack Whyte, first published in 1993. It is the second novel in "A Dream of Eagles" series....
    
    (1993)
  • The Eagles' Brood
    The Eagles' Brood
    The Eagles' Brood is a historical novel by Jack Whyte set in Post-Roman Britain. It is the third in Whyte's series The Camulod Chronicles....
    
    (1994)
  • The Saxon Shore
    The Saxon Shore
    The Saxon Shore is a 1998 novel by Canadian writer Jack Whyte chronicling Caius Merlyn Britannicus's effort to return the baby Arthur to the colony of Camulod and the political events surrounding this. The book is a portrayal of the Arthurian Legend set against the backdrop of Post-Roman Briton's...
    
    (1998)
  • The Sorcerer Part 1: The Fort at River's Bend
    The Fort at River's Bend
    The Fort at River's Bend is a novel published by Jack Whyte, a Canadian novelist in 1999. Originally part of a single book, The Sorcerer, it was split for publishing purposes. The book encompasses the beginning of Arthur's education at a long abandoned Roman fort, where he is taught most of the...
    
    (1997)
  • The Sorcerer Part 2: The Sorcerer: Metamorphosis (1999)
  • Uther (2001)
  • Clothar the Frank
    Clothar the Frank
    Clothar the Frank is a Canadian historical fiction novel by Jack Whyte that continues his Arthurian Cycle as told in A Dream of Eagles series of novels...
    
    (titled The Lance Thrower outside of Canada) (2004)
  • The Eagle
    The Eagle (novel)
    The Eagle is the final novel in the A Dream of Eagles series . The Eagle follows the continuing story of Clothar from when he meets Arthur Pendragon, to, and possibly after, King Arthur's death.it has sympathetic portrait of Mordred .The novel was released on November 19, 2005 in Canada and...
    
    (2006)
• The Lost Years of Merlin Epic, by T.A. Barron
  • The Lost Years of Merlin
    The Lost Years of Merlin
    The Lost Years of Merlin is a work of literature by T.A. Barron, published by Penguin Group USA. It tells the tale of the legendary wizard Merlin's youth. Though the character Merlin is world famous as an ancient wizard, this story of his lost youth is original to the author...
    
    (1996)
  • The Seven Songs of Merlin
    The Seven Songs of Merlin
    The Seven Songs of Merlin is a work of literature by T. A. Barron, published by Penguin. The Seven Songs of Merlin is the second story in a five story epic known as The Lost Years of Merlin. These books chronicle the childhood of Merlin....
    
    (1997)
  • The Fires of Merlin
    The Fires of Merlin
    The Fires of Merlin is a 1998 fantasy novel by T. A. Barron published by Penguin. It is the third of The Lost Years of Merlin, a five-book series providing a childhood story for the legendary Merlin, wizard of Arthurian legend....
    
    (1998)
  • The Mirror of Merlin
    The Mirror of Merlin
    The Mirror of Merlin is a 1999 fantasy novel by T. A. Barron published by Penguin. It is the fourth of The Lost Years of Merlin, a five-book series providing a childhood story for the legendary Merlin, wizard of Arthurian legend....
    
    (1999)
  • The Wings of Merlin
    The Wings of Merlin
    The Wings of Merlin is a children's fantasy novel by T.A. Barron. It is the fifth book in the Lost Years of Merlin epic about the legendary wizard Merlin's youth...
    
    (2000)
• Albion
  Albion (novel series)
  Albion is a trilogy of historical novels set in Arthurian Britain by British author Patrick McCormack.-Series:*The Last Companion *The White Phantom *The Lame Dancer -Overview:...
  
  , a trilogy of historical novels by British author Patrick McCormack (1997, 2000, 2007)
• The King Awakes and The Empty Throne by Janice Elliott, set in a Medieval-style society several generations after a nuclear war. Both novels deal with the return of King Arthur and his friendship with a youth from the post-holocaust world
• Merlin's Bones
  Merlin's Bones
  Merlin's Bones is a 1995 novel by Fred Saberhagen which melds elements of science fiction and Arthurian legend. The story is told in first person by several different characters in parallel storylines, one taking place a few years after the supposed death of King Arthur, the other in the early 21st...
  
  by Fred Saberhagen
  Fred Saberhagen
  Fred Thomas Saberhagen was an American science fiction and fantasy author most famous for his Berserker series of science fiction short stories and S.F...
  
  
• The Idylls of the Queen by Phyllis Ann Karr
  Phyllis Ann Karr
  Phyllis Ann Karr, born July 25, 1944, is an American author of fantasy, romances, mysteries, and non-fiction. She is best known for her "Frostflower & Thorn" series and Matter of Britain works.-Life and family:...
  
  
• Eagle in the Snow
  Eagle in the Snow
  Eagle in the Snow is a historical fiction novel. Written in 1970 by Wallace Breem, the novel is set in Britannia and Germania in the late 4th and early 5th century, and centres on the Roman general Paulinus Gaius Maximus, a Mithraic in an age of Christianization...
  
  by Wallace Breem
  Wallace Breem
  Wallace Breem was a British librarian and author. He was the Librarian and Keeper of Manuscripts of the Inner Temple Law Library, and wrote historical novels, including Eagle in the Snow ....
  
  ; the coming of Arthur is foreseen by the chief of Segontium
  Segontium
  Segontium is a Roman fort for a Roman auxiliary force, located on the outskirts of Caernarfon in Gwynedd, north Wales.It probably takes its name from the nearby River Seiont, and may be related to the Segontiaci, a British tribe mentioned by Julius Caesar. The fort was founded by Agricola in 77 or...
  
   in the last page of the book
• The Winter Prince
  The Winter Prince
  The Winter Prince is Elizabeth Wein's retelling of the Arthurian story of Mordred , detailing Medraut's complicated, intense relationship with his legitimate half-brother Lleu.-Plot summary:...
  
  by Elizabeth Wein
• The Dragon Lord
  The Dragon Lord
  The Dragon Lord is a historical fantasy or sword and sorcery novel by American writer David Drake. First published in 1979 and revised in 1982, the novel is set in sixth century Arthurian Britain.-Background:...
  
  by David Drake
• Merlin's Mirror (1975) by Andre Norton
  Andre Norton
  Andre Alice Norton, née Alice Mary Norton was an American science fiction and fantasy author under the noms de plume Andre Norton, Andrew North and Allen Weston...
  
  
• The Return of Merlin
  The Return of Merlin
  The Return of Merlin is the first novel by writer, lecturer and spiritualist Deepak Chopra.It is a reworking of the classic Merlin Myth based in the modern era...
  
  (1995) by Deepak Chopra
  Deepak Chopra
  Deepak Chopra is an Indian medical doctor, public speaker, and writer on subjects such as spirituality, Ayurveda and mind-body medicine. Chopra began his career as an endocrinologist and later shifted his focus to alternative medicine. Chopra now runs his own medical center, with a focus on...
  
  
• Camelot 3000
  Camelot 3000
  Camelot 3000 is an American twelve-issue comic book limited series written by Mike W. Barr and penciled by Brian Bolland. It was published by DC Comics from 1982 to 1985 as one of its first direct market projects, and as its first maxi-series.-Plot:...
  
  , a comic book series that reincarnates Arthur and his knights in the far future
• The Dark is Rising, a series written for older children and young adults, by Susan Cooper
  Susan Cooper
  Susan Mary Cooper is an English author best known for The Dark Is Rising, an award-winning five-volume saga set in and around England and Wales. The books incorporate traditional British mythology, such as Arthurian and other Welsh elements with original material ; these books were adapted into a...
  
  
• The Fionavar Tapestry
  The Fionavar Tapestry
  The Fionavar Tapestry is a trilogy of fantasy novels by Guy Gavriel Kay, set partly in our own contemporary world, but mostly in the fictional world of Fionavar. It is the story of five University of Toronto senior law and medical students, who are drawn into the 'first world of the Tapestry' by...
  
  , a fantasy trilogy by Canadian author Guy Gavriel Kay
• The Merlin Mystery
  The Merlin Mystery
  The Merlin Mystery is a 1998 puzzle/children's book, written by Jonathan Gunson and illustrated by Gunson and Marten Coombe. Published by Warner Books and certified by MENSA, it served as an armchair treasure hunt book, challenging its readers to solve the titular mystery by deciphering the...
  
  , A puzzlehunt
  Puzzlehunt
  A puzzlehunt is a puzzle game where teams compete to solve a series of puzzles at a particular site, in multiple sites and/or via the internet. Groups of puzzles in a puzzle hunt are often connected by a metapuzzle, leading to answers which combine into a final set of solutions...
  
   book which focused heavily on Merlin and Nimue having a love after Arthur has been entombed; it offered a cash prize as well as a gold, silver, bronze and crystal wand. However, the puzzle went unsolved and the prize unclaimed.
• The Down the Long Wind series by Gillian Bradshaw
  Gillian Bradshaw
  Gillian Marucha Bradshaw is an American writer of historical fiction, historical fantasy, children's literature, science fiction, and contemporary science-based novels, who currently lives in Britain...
  
   (1980–82)
  • Hawk of May
    Hawk of May
    Hawk of May is the first of a trilogy of fantasy novels written by Gillian Bradshaw which interprets the King Arthur legend. It recounts, from the viewpoint of the warrior Gwalchmai ap Lot, Arthur's rise to power...
    
    
  • Kingdom of Summer
    Kingdom of Summer
    Kingdom of Summer is the second book in a trilogy of fantasy novels written by Gillian Bradshaw. The novel tells of the ascendancy of King Arthur and the planting of the seeds of his downfall...
    
    
  • In Winter's Shadow
    In Winter's Shadow
    In Winter's Shadow is the final book in a trilogy of fantasy novels written by Gillian Bradshaw. It tells the story of King Arthur's downfall, as recounted by his wife Gwynhwyfar.-Plot summary:...
    
    
• The Little Wench by Philip Lindsay
  Philip Lindsay
  Philip Lindsay was an Australian writer, who mostly wrote historical novels. He was the son of Norman Lindsay, an Australian artist. He moved to England in the 1930s and most of his novels were written there...
  
  
• Merlin (romance) (1978) by Robert Nye
  Robert Nye
  Robert Nye FRSL is an English poet who has also written novels and plays as well as stories for children. His bestselling novel Falstaff published in 1976 was described by Michael Ratcliffe as 'one of the most ambitious and seductive novels of the decade,' and went on to win both The Hawthornden...
  
  

21st century

• In the series "The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
  The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel
  The Secrets of the Immortal Nicholas Flamel will be a series of six fantasy novels written by Irish author Michael Scott when complete. Completion is due to be in 2012. The first book in the series, The Alchemyst was released in 2007, the sequels are scheduled to follow at the rate of one per year,...
  
  " by Michael Scott
  Michael Scott (Irish author)
  Michael Scott is an Irish author.Michael Scott is a seasoned and prolific writer of over 100 books during his 25 plus years of writing thus far...
  
   there are many mentions of artifacts and people in the legends of King Arthur.
• The Merlin Codex by Robert Holdstock
  Robert Holdstock
  Robert Paul Holdstock was an English novelist and author best known for his works of Celtic, Nordic, Gothic and Pictish fantasy literature, predominantly in the fantasy subgenre of mythic fiction....
  
  
  • Celtika (2001)
  • The Iron Grail (2002)
  • The Broken Kings (2007)
• Corbenic by Catherine Fisher
  Catherine Fisher
  Catherine Fisher is an author, broadcaster and adjudicator who lives in Newport. Her former jobs include working as a primary school teacher and archaeologist. She also taught Writing for Children at the University of Glamorgan....
  
   (2002)
• I am Morgan le Fay: A Tale from Camelot by Nancy Springer (2002)
• Sword of the Rightful King by Jane Yolen
  Jane Yolen
  Jane Hyatt Yolen is an American author and editor of almost 300 books. These include folklore, fantasy, science fiction, and children's books...
  
   (2003)
• The House of Pendragon by Debra A. Kemp
  Debra A. Kemp
  Debra A. Kemp is an American author.She writes historical fiction. She draws inspiration for her House of Pendragon series from the Arthurian legends. She originally studied nursing and earned her degree from Indiana University in 1981.-Literary career:Kemp published her first Arthurian novel The...
  
  
  • I: The Firebrand  (2003)
  • II: The Recruit (2007)
• The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
  The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp
  The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp is a story about a teenager named Alfred Kropp who helps his uncle Farrell acquire the legendary sword Excalibur....
  
  by Rick Yancey
  Rick Yancey
  Rick Yancey is an American novelist, formerly an Internal Revenue Service tax collector.-Biography:His Alfred Kropp series begins with The Extraordinary Adventures of Alfred Kropp, which was named a Best Book for Children by Publishers Weekly and was a finalist for the Carnegie Medal for 2005.. ...
  
   (2005)
• Dracula vs. King Arthur By Adam Beranek, Christian Beranek
  Christian Beranek
  Christian Beranek is an American graphic novelist, actor, musician and film/tv producer.-Biography:Born in Council Bluffs, Iowa, Beranek currently resides in Santa Fe, New Mexico and runs Lead Pipe Entertainment. His graphic novel credits include Dracula vs. King Arthur and Silent Forest...
  
   and Chris Moreno (2007)
• The Pendragon's Banner Trilogy by Helen Hollick
  Helen Hollick
  Helen Hollick is a British author of historical fiction. She is the author of the Arthurian trilogy Pendragon's Banner, and the novels Harold the King and A Hollow Crown.-Life and career:...
  
   (re-published UK 2007 & USA 2009)
  • Book One: The Kingmaking
  • Book Two: Pendragon's Banner
  • Book Three: Shadow of the King
• Song of the Sparrow
  Song of the Sparrow
  Song of the Sparrow is a young adult novel by Lisa Ann Sandell, published in 2007. It is written completely in lyrical form. It is set during the Dark Ages in Britain and is a retelling of the story of The Lady of Shalott a figure from Arthurian legend....
  
  by Lisa Ann Sandell
  Lisa Ann Sandell
  Lisa Ann Sandell is an American author of young adult novels. She has written and published three books, A Map of the Known World, Song of the Sparrow, The Weight of the Sky, and 21 Proms.-Biography:...
  
   (2007)
• Camelot Lost by Jessica Bonito (Jessica McHugh
  Jessica McHugh
  Jessica McHugh is an American author of speculative fiction and member of the . A prolific writer, she has had ten books published by indie presses in three years...
  
  ) (2008)
• Avalon High
  Avalon High
  Avalon High is a young adult novel by Meg Cabot, published in 2005. It reached number 3 in The New York Times children's best sellers list in January 2006. A manga sequel called Coronation, Volume one: The Merlin's Prophecy has been released....
  
  by Meg Cabot
  Meg Cabot
  Meg Cabot is anAmerican author of romantic and paranormal fiction for teens and adults and used to write under several pen names, but now writes exclusively under her real name, Meg Cabot...
  
  
• The Sangreal Trilogy by Amanda Hemingway
  Jan Siegel
  Jan Siegel is a pseudonym of Amanda Hemingway . She is a British author of fantasy novels, best known for the Fern Capel series.-Fernanda "Fern" Capel:# Prospero’s Children # The Dragon-Charmer...
  
  
• Sword of Darkness by Kinley MacGregor
  Sherrilyn Kenyon
  Sherrilyn Kenyon is a bestselling US writer. Under her own name she writes Urban Fantasy, but is best known for her Dark-Hunter vampire series. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she wrote historicals also with paranormal elements...
  
  
• Knight of Darkness by Kinley MacGregor
  Sherrilyn Kenyon
  Sherrilyn Kenyon is a bestselling US writer. Under her own name she writes Urban Fantasy, but is best known for her Dark-Hunter vampire series. Under the pseudonym Kinley MacGregor she wrote historicals also with paranormal elements...
  
  
• Here Lies Arthur
  Here Lies Arthur
  Here Lies Arthur is a young adult novel by Philip Reeve. It was first published in April 2007. The Arthur of the title is the King Arthur of legend...
  
  by Philip Reeve
  Philip Reeve
  Philip Reeve is a British author and illustrator. He presently lives on Dartmoor with his wife Sarah and their son Samuel.-Biography:...
  
  
• The Book Of Mordred by Vivian Vande Velde
  Vivian Vande Velde
  Vivian Vande Velde is an American author who writes books primarily aimed at young adults. She currently resides in Rochester, New York....
  
  
• King Arthur Trilogy by M.K. Hume
  • Book One: Dragons Child
  • Book Two: Warrior of the West
  • Book Three: The Bloody Cup
• Merlin Trilogy
  • Book One: Prophecy: Clash of Kings
• The Return of Arthur: The Call of Destiny (Book One) by Alan Fenton
  Alan Fenton
  .Alan Fenton is an English fiction writer best known for his novels on the Arthurian legends.-Biography:Born in London, Alan Fenton was educated at Mercers’ School in the City...
  
  
• The Return of Arthur: The Hour of Camelot (Book Two) by Alan Fenton
  Alan Fenton
  .Alan Fenton is an English fiction writer best known for his novels on the Arthurian legends.-Biography:Born in London, Alan Fenton was educated at Mercers’ School in the City...
  
  
• Tales of King Arthur by Daniel and Ronne Randall, illustrated by Graham Howells. (2002)
• Sons of Avalon, Merlin's Prophecy
  The Sons of Avalon Saga
  The Sons of Avalon Saga is a series of Arthurian Legend novels, by American novelist, Dee Marie. The first book in the series, Sons of Avalon, Merlin’s Prophecy, begins with the birth of Merlin, and ends with the conception of King Arthur...
  
  by Dee Marie
  Dee Marie
  Dee Marie is an American novelist of historical fantasy, as well as a journalist, artist, professional photographer and former magazine editor....
  
   (2008)
• Cold My Heart: A Novel of King Arthur by Sarah Woodbury (2011)
• The Last Pendragon Saga by Sarah Woodbury
  • The Last Pendragon (2010)
  • The Pendragon's Quest (2011)

Nonfiction

• Arthur's Britain by Leslie Alcock
  Leslie Alcock
  Leslie Alcock was Professor of Archaeology at the University of Glasgow, and one of the leading archaeologists of Early Mediaeval Britain. His major excavations included Dinas Powys hill fort in Wales, Cadbury Castle, South Cadbury in Somerset and a series of major hillforts in Scotland.-Early...
  
  
• The Quest for Arthur's Britain by Geoffrey Ashe
  Geoffrey Ashe
  Geoffrey Ashe is a British cultural historian, a writer of non-fiction books and novels.-Early life:Born in London, Ashe spent several years in Canada growing up, graduating from the University of British Columbia, Vancouver, before continuing at Cambridge.-Work:Many of his historical books are...
  
  
• The Medieval Quest for Arthur by Robert Rouse and Cory Rushton
• King Arthur - The True Story by Graham Phillips
  Graham Phillips (author)
  Graham Phillips is a British author and historical mysteries researcher. Phillips has a background working as a reporter for BBC radio and a magazine editor...
  
   and Martin Keatman
• Pendragon The Origins of Arthur by Steve Blake
  Steve Blake
  Steven Hanson "Steve" Blake is an American professional basketball point guard for the Los Angeles Lakers. Previously, he played for the Washington Wizards, Milwaukee Bucks, Denver Nuggets, Portland Trail Blazers and the Los Angeles Clippers.-High school:Blake spent his freshman and sophomore year...
  
   and Scott Lloyd
  Scott Lloyd
  Scott G. Lloyd is a retired American professional basketball player. He was a 6'10" 230 lb center who played high school basketball at East Phoenix High School where he was selected All-America and led his team to the 1971 state title...
  
  
• The Arthurian Tradition by John Matthews
• The Age of Arthur: A History of the British Isles from 350 to 650 John Morris
  John Morris (historian)
  John Robert Morris was an English historian who specialised in the study of the institutions of the Roman Empire and the history of Sub-Roman Britain...
  
  

External links

• Camelot Project