Background
Ashe, Geoffrey Thomas was born on March 29, 1923 in London. Son of Arthur William and Thelma (Hoodless) Ashe.
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This is a lovely book, filled with photographs of places where certain people (or 'characters') are said to have lived and died, such as King Arthur and Merlin.
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( Attempts to find the person (if any) behind the legend ...)
Attempts to find the person (if any) behind the legend of King Arthur have been going on for a long time. The search has revealed many interesting facts and it has also led to sharp disagreements. By the 1980s, the search was more or less abandoned, having reached a dead-end. The Discovery of King Arthur presents an investigation that broke the deadlock. Arthur emerged from it with a firmer status in history. He was also more interesting - more like his legend - than once appeared likely. It became possible to see better why he became the kind of figure he did. The delay in running him to earth was due to the nature of the problem he posed. Medieval authors who gave him his literary grandeur fitted him into what they claimed was Britain's history several centuries later. Not much of that history can stand up in the light of present day knowledge - it is mostly legend. So historians who looked for Arthur swept the medieval matter aside and searched for him in the scanty older records. But the search was inconclusive. A convincing answer called for a different approach. This books shows that the Arthurian legend itself needs to be taken seriously and sifted for clues. The right questions to ask are not the direct ones, 'Who was Arthur?' or 'Did he exist?', but 'Where did his legend come from?' and 'What facts is the legend rooted in?'. If we line up the legend side by side with the facts as we know them today, the problem of Arthur's identity can be solved.
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(Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and ...)
Everything you ever wanted to know about King Arthur and his knights is covered in this fascinating volume: the origins of the Grail legend, the Tristan and Isolde love story in opera and literature, Spielberg's use of Arthurian motifs in Star Wars , the depiction of Arthur in paintings, the presentation of Camelot on the Broadway stage, the twitting of the legend in Monty Python and the Holy Grail and much more. This critical survey of Arthurian history and legend, archaeology, literature, and the arts from the fifth century to the present provides an introduction for the general reader and a useful summary for the specialist. It offers both historical facts and key discussions on Arthurian subjects, from post-Roman Britain to the most recent novels and films. There is a lengthy glossary of Arthurian characters, motifs, and places, a chronology of major historical and literary items, a guide to pronunciation, and a full bibliography. What's new in the Second Edition:All the material has been revised and updated to 1996 since the original 1988 edition; The chapter on modern literature has been thoroughly revised, with new material on writings from France, Germany, England, and America; The coverage of King Arthur in the arts has entirely rewritten by one of the premier authorities in Arthurian studies. Brand-new geneological charts of the ancestry of Arthur and his family and the Grail kings and knights.; A fully up-to-date chronology; Many new illustrations.
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Few biographies capture the complex personality of Mohandas K. Gandhi (1869-1948)—theologian, philosopher, activist, and statesman—so successfully. Geoffrey Ashe separates myth from reality and clarifies the incredible polarities of his protagonist's life, from middle-class lawyer to non violent revolutionary, from family man to man of the world. The resulting portrait offers readers insight into a man whose example influenced the powerful and the impoverished, whose nonviolent activism impacted the national destinies of India and Pakistan, and whose teachings and techniques continue to inspire worldwide struggles for political, economic and social justice.
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An updated and revised edition of Geoffrey Ashe's enjoyable investigation of Britain's monarchs, from its earliest legendary rulers such as Bran the Blessed and King Lear, to the kings and queens of Roman Britain, including Boudicca, and Alfred in the 9th century. Drawing on archaeological and documentary evidence, Ashe identifies real and imagined rulers from Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain and Gildas , including King Arthur and other powerful figures in the histories of England, Scotland and Wales. The study vividly recreates the political struggles and religious conflicts of Roman and Anglo-Saxon Britain.
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Explore a truly astonishing range of interests, philosophies, religions, and cultures -- from alchemy to angels, Buddhism to Hinduism, myth to magic. The distinguished authors bring a wealth of knowledge, visionary thinking, and accessible writing to each intriguing subject in these lavishly illustrated, large-format paperback books.
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(This book is planned on the pattern of Robert Graves's "G...)
This book is planned on the pattern of Robert Graves's "Greek Myths" and "Hebrew Myths". Each section deals with its topic first as presented in legend or story-telling or speculation. Then a commentary discusses the sources, the facts, the underlying ideas, the rehandling in subsequent writing. The time-span of the survey extends from prehistory to the 9th century AD. Geoffrey Ashe has also written "King Arthur's Avalon - The Story of Glastonbury", "Avalonian Quest" and "The Ancient Wisdom".
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Recounting stories and legends from the dark centuries of British prehistory to the 9th century AD - tales of giants and fairies, druids and saints, King Lear, King Arthur and Old King Cole - Ashe shows how they all interrelate and take on fresh significance from historical and archaelogical research. The origins and legends of the Giants, the Ancient Britons, the Picts, the Scots and the English are all explained, in a work aimed at both the specialist and the casual reader. Organised into a simple system based on Robert Graves' classic "Greek Myths", Ashe describes the myth or theme first followed by discussion or analysis.
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Ashe, Geoffrey Thomas was born on March 29, 1923 in London. Son of Arthur William and Thelma (Hoodless) Ashe.
Bachelor with honors, University British Columbia, 1943. Bachelor, Trinity College, Cambridge University, 1948.
Lecturer in English Polish University College, London, 1948-1950. Industrial research assistant Newman Neame, 1949-1951. Administrative assistant Ford Motor Company of Canada, Windsor, Ontario, 1952-1954.
Technical officer Post Office Department, Toronto, 1954-1955. Lecturer in management studies Polytechnic, London, 1956-1967. Visiting professor English University Southern Mississippi, 1982, University Alabama, Birmingham, 1984, Wilfred Laurier University of Canberra, 1985, University Minnesota, Duluth, 1986.
Thomas Lamont visiting professor Union College, Schenectady, New York, 1984.
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Quotations: "I would say there must have been a tradition about the hill and its powerful overlord, handed down from the Dark Ages".
Fellow Royal Society Literature. Member International Arthurian Society.
Married Dorothy Irene Train, May 3, 1946. Children: Thomas, John, Michael, Sheila, Brendan.