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Loading... Bulfinch's Mythology: The Age of Chivalry (1858)by Thomas Bulfinch
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. In the second volume of Bulfinch’s mythology, he covers the mythology of the British Isles. The first section is on the English legends of King Arthur. The second section is on the Welsh legends of King Arthur. The third section is a hodgepodge of other myths, including Robin Hood and several legendary knights. I’ve read a lot of Arthurian legends, and while Bulfinch added a few bits of information that I hadn’t seen before, it wasn’t enough to really make it worth reading for me. The Welsh aspect was interesting as was the introduction, but neither was as in depth as the Arthurian section. By the time I got to the end with page after page of descriptions of battles, I was bored out of my mind. no reviews | add a review
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HTML: American writer Thomas Bulfinch was one of the most important scholars of world mythology. His nineteenth-century collections of folk literature from Europe and ancient Greece remain some of the most influential works in this field. The collection The Age of Chivalry focuses on romantic, action-packed tales from the King Arthur era. .No library descriptions found. |
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The book as a whole could have done with some improvement in terms of their maps - there were a few times when I found myself wanting a quick reference between medieval places names and modern locales, and the few maps that were included had backwards colouring (blue land, white ocean) - but the rest of the visual material worked quite well, I thought. Photos were matched carefully to the main text and included their own captions to further explain topics, and the painted images added a lot of much-needed visual stimulation. Most books on this topic tend to use live recreations, but I find that concept a bit trite, since obviously we don’t have photos from the Middle Ages and trying to recreate scenes just looks like glorified cosplay - which is great, but has no place in non-fiction books. ( )