Richard White, ed.,

King Arthur in Legend and History (New York: Routledge, 1997). A handy collection of excerpts from the early sources, including Gildas, Nennius, Geoffrey of Monmouth, William of Newburgh, and Wace .

E. K. Chambers,

Arthur of Britain (New York: Barnes & Noble, 1927). This thorough study initiated the modern quest for the historical Arthur; quite reasonably, Chambers remained an agnostic on the subject of Arthur’s existence .

Robin G. Collingwood,

Roman Britain and the English Settlements (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1937). Arthur as a wide-ranging general and cavalry leader .

Kenneth Hurlstone Jackson, “The Arthur of History,” in

Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages

ed. Roger Sherman Loomis (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959). Responding to arguments that Arthur couldn’t have been a major figure because all his battles were in the North, Jackson’s linguistic analysis of place names attempted to show he could have fought in southern Britain as well .

Geoffrey Ashe, ed.,

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