King Arthur (TRIH eps 713-716)
c. 500 (legend) – 1485 (Malory) · Resource
A four-part series on King Arthur: how the legend grew from a shadowy post-Roman warlord through Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chrétien de Troyes and Malory, the stories of Lancelot, Guinevere and Merlin, and whether there was ever a real Arthur.
On these timelines: The Rest Is History (podcast), Resources: Combined
Around 500
- Reign of Justinian I (527)
- Fall of Western Roman Empire (476)
- Muhammad (570)
- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Hagia Sophia (532)
- Sui dynasty (581)
- Romans withdraw from Britain (410)
- Baptism of Clovis (496)
- Hagia Sophia completed (537)
- Council of Chalcedon (451)