Arthur: A New Life by Amy Jeffs

Amy will be in conversation with historian and Gone Medieval podcast host Matt Lewis.

Tickets - £9 per person, including £3 off the book if purchased at the event.

About the book - It is said that a monument now stands before the high church of Caerleon: an anvil pierced through with a sword. It is said that the sword can only be taken by the Britons’ rightful king…

Arthur: A New Life mines the deep, elusive seams of a story we think we all know: the legend of King Arthur.

Drawing out the dark and beautiful stories from the original medieval and early-modern texts, Amy guides the reader from citadels through forests, into volcanoes, caves and riverbanks and beyond, even as far as Hell and the Otherworld. Going further than merely the stories, she provides incisive commentary about each tale, emphasising the legends’ crafted nature and their symbiotic relationship with the political cultures of contemporary medieval Europe.

Thirty original linocut illustrations map the inky Arthurian myth-scape, darkened by time, familiar as a dream.