VIRTUAL PROGRAM
Fridays from 2:30 – 3:30 p.m.
$175 for the session
Did Arthur exist, what information about him might we have, and can we fit him into a plausible historical scenario? In these seminars we’ll look at early references to Arthur in both literary material and early “historical” notices. Then we’ll consider further evidence and explore whether we can reconstruct a narrative account of the late fifth to early sixth centuries A.D. in Britain that might provide a context into which we could place Arthur.
Dr. Alison Bonner is Associate Professor of Celtic History (encompassing the History of the Brittonic-Speaking Peoples and the History of the Gaelic-Speaking Peoples) in the Department of Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Celtic at the University of Cambridge. The Department is the only place in the world where you can study the history of the Brittonic-Speaking Peoples (and that of the Gaelic-Speaking Peoples who lived in both Ireland and Scotland), and is the only place in the world where you can study the five languages of Britain including Brittonic and Old Irish from scratch.