I Introduction: Who Was Arthur? -- Arthur, Myth and Reality 8 -- Sources of Evidence 12 -- An Outline History 15 -- II Background: Britons and Romans -- Prehistoric Britain 22 -- Iron Age 23 -- Roman Conquest of Britain 26 -- Coming of Christianity 28 -- Late Roman Britain 29 -- III Age of Arthur (Ad 400-600) -- Tyrants and the End of Roman Britain 36 -- Historical Evidence 38 -- Inscriptions 40 -- Archaeological Evidence 41 -- Peoples of Post-Roman Britain 46 -- Britons 47 -- Picts 54 -- Irish 57 -- Saxons 60 -- IV Chronicles of the Britons -- Patrick and Gildas 68 -- Welsh Annals 72 -- History of the Britons 76 -- Geoffrey of Monmouth 80 -- V Legends of the Britons -- Pseudo-Chronicles 88 -- Welsh Tradition 92 -- Breton Material 99 -- French Romances 101 -- Perceval-Grail Tradition 110 -- Tristan Tradition 116 -- Arthurian Tradition and the Medieval World 118 -- Late Medieval English Tradition 121 -- VI Monarchy, Chivalry and the Return of Arthur -- Plantagenets 128 -- Tudors and the Stuarts 132 -- Victorian Revival 137 -- VII Quest for Camelot -- Historical Arthur 146 -- Merlin and Myrddin 154 -- In Search of the Holy Grail 158 -- VIII Conclusion: An Age of Arthur -- Modern Arthurian Fiction 166 -- Arthurian Films and Television 169 -- Arthurian Music 172 -- Once and Future King 174 -- Story of Arthur -- Isle of the Mighty 32 -- Birth of Arthur 64 -- Arthur, Leader of Battles 74 -- Knights of the Round Table 78 -- Beguiling of Merlin 90 -- Lancelot and Guinevere 102 -- Quest for the Holy Grail 108 -- Tristan and Isolde 114 -- Lady of Shalott 140 -- Battle of Camlann 152 -- Isle of Avalon 162.