Arthurian Legend

3-4 Credits

King Arthur had a powerful hold on the popular imagination for more than a thousand years, from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s twelfth-century History of the Kings of Britain to Tracy Deonn’s twenty-first-century novel Legendborn. In this course, we consider how reinventions of Arthurian legends both reflect and shape the values of their time—with a particular focus on gendered and classed norms of ethical behavior; ideals of justice, leadership, and the rule of law; and notions of nationality and ethnicity. Attribute/Distribution: CC, HE, HU, W