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>>12858971
It was parody in a lot of the stuff from the same time period. Both Parzival and Chretien de Troyes were court entertainers who were specifically calling out their local patrons out for wasting vast amounts of money on pointless shit and acting like petty children. The original Launcelot story by Troyes was specifically commissioned by the kings' wife, and the story is entirely about how a queen wasting her time courting ends up ruining the kingdom.

I forget exactly which collection it was in, but there was one where Arthur was playing chess with some other guy and the game lasted five years while the kingdom withered around them, and all the while he kept saying what a wise and good king Arthur was. It's a pretty modern idea, to turn the Greatest King of All Time into a backhanded insult to lords who didn't have a leadership bone in their body.

Arthurian Edition

What's your favorite book about (or inspired by)
the King Arthur mythos?

Previously: >>7985766

>Fantasy
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I've just realized that I've never read any of the proper Arthurian canon before, just the compilations and retellings for kids and young adults.

I'm going to do my best to read The Death of King Arthur and Ivanhoe and whatever else I can find, but does /lit/ know what a good order to read is?

Hey /lit/

I want to read some Arthurian legend. What books can you recommend?