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After reviewing the speculations of modern mystics, the author notes the conviction felt by many people that this was a sacred site before Christianity. ---Glastonbury emerges as a place that is subtly, powerfully alive, with a distinctive future as well as an astonishing past."
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- PublisherMethuen
- Publication date1982
- ISBN 10 0413488004
- ISBN 13 9780413488008
- BindingHardcover
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AVALONIAN QUEST
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ISBN 13: 9780413488008
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Book Description Hardcover. Condition: New. Dust Jacket Condition: New. 1st Edition. This copy is in new, unmarked condition bound in green cloth covered boards with bright gilt titling to the spine. This copy is bright, tight, white and square. The unclipped dust wrapper is in new condition. International postal rates are calculated on a book weighing 1 Kilo, in cases where the book weighs more than 1 Kilo increased postal rates will be quoted, where the book weighs less then postage will be reduced accordingly. Glastonbury, the ancient Avalon, is a small market town in central Somerset in the west of England. Its population is seven thousand or so. Architecturally it extends over about five centuries historically over a longer time but no buildings of the earlier town are still standing. Fleeces and hides are the raw materials of its industry. It is divided into two Anglican parishes St John the Baptist?s and St Benedict?s with late medieval churches. Ecclesiastically it is better known for its Abbey once the greatest in England with a church sur- passed only by old St Paul?s. The scanty yet awesome ruins stand in a forty-acre rectangle which the town surrounds on all sides. Seen from within Glastonbury is picturesque beautiful here and there but scarcely exceptional. Seen from outside it is extraordinary. If you approach from Bristol or Bath over the Mendips you have a sudden vista of low-lying country in which a single hill juts up inconsistently with a tower on top. That is Glastonbury Tor. It is not as solitary as it looks from the Mendips. The town is cradled in a hill- cluster in which the Tor rising to 518 feet above sea level is the highest point. Its neighbours are all different shapes. They are the smooth-domed Chalice Hill close beside it across a little valley; Wirral or ?Wearyall? Hill a ridge outstretched towards Bridgwater; and Windmill Hill its comparatively flat top built over on the side facing Wells. The Tor itself has survived much geological change because its upper part is of sandstone harder than the limestone below and less subject to erosion. Geoffrey Thomas Leslie Ashe MBE FRSL (29 March 1923 ? 30 January 2022) was a British cultural historian and lecturer, known for his focus on King Arthur. Many of his historical books are centred on factual analysis of the Arthurian legend, and the archaeological past of King Arthur, beginning with his King Arthur's Avalon: The Story of Glastonbury, in 1957. The book was inspired by what Ashe had read in G. K. Chesterton's Short History of England. He is a major proponent of the theory that the historical King Arthur was Riothamus, presented in an article in Speculum, April 1981, and expanded in The Discovery of King Arthur (1985) and in various further articles. His fresh idea was to scrutinise Arthur's foreign campaigns in Geoffrey of Monmouth's account and take the material seriously, concluding that, though the legendary Arthur is a composite figure, the career of Riothamus seems to underlie at least a major portion of Geoffrey's account, for which Ashe adduces passages in a Breton text and several chronicles. Ref EE 5. Seller Inventory # 032109
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