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ngl i dont think u should call someone a puritan unless they actually want to rid the church of england of the residual stain of catholicism

#some of these so called 'puritans' dont even believe in covenant theology.....#the word u are looking for is prude <3

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The Court Jester of Tabbyland (1922) by Harry Whittier Frees

source: Wikimedia Commons

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Jean Rhys, Smile Please: An Unfinished Autobiography

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Peanuts, May 14, 1964

larval-tear

dude i think i might be The Other

medievalthymes

my june tbr is whatever the western winds whisper to me

gideonisms

I just miss seivarden sometimes. Every few months I think about her again and I'm like damn. I would kill to know what she's been up to. She's like an old friend to me

damndorothea

i saw this somewhere else but reply / tag what you did today so everyone can see that we all did something different today

#i went to my sisters house to pick up some packages #(snoopy shirt from ebay)#and i listened to like half of an audiobook that ive been meaning to get around to #now im trying to stay up to midnight to borrow the great courses king arthur from my library #(theyre rationing our hoopla acces)

mercymornsimpathizer

hello beautiful genius people inside my phone does anyone have recs for accesible nonfiction /about/ arthuriana

man-ti-core

syllabus from my college course was less helpful than I remember :(( it was mostly The Texts Themselves, which you have read, but here's what I have:

The Discovery of King Arthur by Geoffrey Ashe, 1985. On the "historical Arthur" and potential origin to the legends, written by a scholar but largely for a popular audience. Much easier to read if you have some familiarity with the major authors (Monmouth, Mallory, de Troies, etc etc)

The Search for King Arthur by David Day, 1995. I have not read this one yet and do not know much about it, I just see it mentioned a lot, from what I understand it synthesizes both the history and the development on the legend

Also, these are not strictly about Arthur and both pretty academic, but if you're at all into the courtly love/chivalry tradition I'd recomend the Rise of Romance by Eugene Vinaver and especially The Allegory of Love by C.S. Lewis (mostly the first chapter)

#yay thank u!!!!