Stripping away the more lurid claims made for a warrior-hero named Arthur, he synthesises the research carried out over the last forty years to tease out the strands of reality from the myth. ![]() ![]() In The First Kingdom, Max Adams scrutinizes the narrative of this period handed down to us by later historians and chroniclers. Somewhere in the shadow time between the departure of the Roman legions in the early fifth century and the arrival in Kent of Augustine's Christian mission at the end of the sixth, the kingdoms of Early Medieval Britain were formed. The bestselling author of The King in the North turns his attention to the obscure era of British history known as 'the age of Arthur'.
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