Lancelot and Camelot Were Invented (The Truth Behind Arthur's Legend) Part 4

Lancelot and Camelot did not exist in any Arthur story for the first six hundred years. In Part 4 of our 7-part history lecture series, we travel to the French courts of the twelfth century, where the poet Chretien de Troyes invented Lancelot, Camelot and the quest for the Holy Grail. Discover how Eleanor of Aquitaine and Marie de Champagne shaped the legend of courtly love, why Sir Gawain and Sir Kay were pushed aside, how the Grail began as a deep dish rather than a golden cup, and why Chretien's unfinished poem Perceval has puzzled scholars for eight hundred years. We also follow Robert de Boron, the Lancelot-Grail Cycle, Galahad and Wolfram von Eschenbach. IN THIS LECTURE YOU WILL LEARN: - Who Chretien de Troyes was and why he changed Arthur forever - The first appearance of Camelot and Lancelot - What courtly love really meant and why it doomed the kingdom - How Gawain and Kay lost their place as heroes - What the original graal was, and how it became the cup of the Last Supper - Why the Perceval story was never finished - How Galahad and the Vulgate Cycle gave the legend its tragic shape If you enjoyed this lecture, LIKE the video, SHARE it with a friend who loves Camelot, and SUBSCRIBE with notifications on so you do not miss Part 5. UP NEXT: Part 5 - Was King Arthur's Grave a Fake? Monks, Kings and a Sword in a Stone BOOK SOURCES AND FURTHER READING: - Chretien de Troyes, Arthurian Romances, trans. William W. Kibler and Carleton W. Carroll (Penguin Classics, 1991) - Roger Sherman Loomis (ed.), Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages (Oxford University Press, 1959) - Richard Barber, The Holy Grail: Imagination and Belief (Allen Lane, 2004) - Wolfram von Eschenbach, Parzival, trans. A. T. Hatto (Penguin Classics) - Norris J. Lacy (ed.), The New Arthurian Encyclopedia (Garland) - Richard Barber, The Figure of Arthur (Longman, 1972) #KingArthur #HolyGrail #Camelot l