The Age of Arthur
Bernard MeesThe Age of Arthur showcases the most recent research on the Arthurian and early Anglo-Saxon period.
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Who was Sir Mordred?
Stanley Baker playing Sir Mordred in ‘Knights of the Round Table’ (MGM, 1953)
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain was one of the most successful books of the Middle Ages. Geoffrey seems to have been inspired to write his...
Was the first king of Wessex a Briton?
The St Giles Field bracteate (Ashmolean Museum)
Writing in the fourteenth century, the English chronicler Ranulf Higden claimed that King Arthur fought many battles against King Cerdic of Wessex – and it is not too difficult to see why. Ac...
King Arthur and the lost Breton chronicles
What do the earliest sources from Brittany reveal about the famous British king?
I’ve recently started sending out an additional post each month that is mostly behind a paywall. I do this partly to say thank-you to paid subscribers, but al...
Protecting the early Anglo-Saxon dead
Cinerary urns excavated from the early Anglo-Saxon cemetery at Spong Hill (McDonald Institute of Archaeology, Cambridge)
The most important early Anglo-Saxon cemetery to have been excavated thoroughly is that at Spong Hill in East Anglia....
The origin of King Arthur’s name
King Arthur dictating to a scribe (British Library MS Royal 14 E III, fol. 140r.)
In the seventeenth century, the poet John Milton published six books of a History of Britain subtitled That Part Especially, Now Call’d England. Milton exten...
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I've been a lecturer at the University of Melbourne, RMIT University and the University of Tasmania, and I've published several books, including The English Language before England (2023) and King Arthur and the Languages of Britain (2025)
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