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The figure of Arthur in legend and literature. The chivalric ideals of romance and adventure and the dream of a just and nonviolent society that Arthur and Camelot represent. Thomas Malory's fifteenth-century Morte d'Arthur, the earliest full account in English of the various legends about Arthur and his knights. Malory's contributions to the story of Lancelot and Guinevere. Alfred Lord Tennyson's nineteenth-century epic poem Idylls of the King. The movie Monty Python and the Holy Grail and how it comically addresses our attempts to grasp the past.
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