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[Linda Elliott <lelliott@WOMBAT.CUSD.CHICO.K12.CA.US>]

Below are listed the responses I received in regards to background
information on King Arthur.  I'll be doing some purchasing soon!
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Dictionary of the Middle Ages_ (12 vol, Scribner's)
__Man, Myth & Magic_ (11 vol, Marshall Cavendish)

in the reference section, and a few books in the 942.01 section
(King of the Celts, In Search of King Arthur...can't think of the
others..)
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King Arthur by Michael O'Neal - part of the Great Mysteries Opposing
Viewpoints series is easy reading.
"Guardian of the Grail" by John Whitehead goes into much more heavy duty
research on the Arthurian
Legend;
" King Arthur" from the series World Leaders Past & Present has lots
of pictures and covers King Arthur;
"Arthur the King" by Graeme Fife covers the themes behind the legends is a
little more scholarly;
"King Arthur Hero and Legen" by Richard Barber is another fairly scholarly
work.
Then there are three of the story books: "Book of King Arthur and
his Noble Knights" by Malory, "King Arthur and His Knights" by Macleod,
and "The Story of King Arthur and His Knights" byy Howard Pyle.
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A student just brought me a copy of a book he was greatly
enjoying--published by Usbourne that included all of those characters.
Sorry but I gave the book back to him, and I don't have a catalog--but it
might be a place to start.
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In the "Cyclopedia of Literary Characters", 1963, p. 742 is a listing
of the characters from LeMorte D'Arthur by Sir Thomas Malory, listing
Merlin, Guenevere, Lancelot, Arthur etc.
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 Aside from the gazillion print sources about the King Arthur legend,
if you go to Yahoo and do a search of "King Arthur" you should come
up with quite a bit of stuff.  More than you want, probably!
Also there are at least two listservs on the subject; one is
Arthurnet, which I used to subscribe to, and I forget the name of
the other one.  You can get this info thru Yahoo also.
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The Arthurian Encyclopedia edited by  Norris J. Lacy ISBN 0-87226-164-6
16.95 in paper.

King Arthur by Paul C. Doherty, ISBN0-87754-506-5, 17.95 hard cover.
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I really like a few WWW sites:  Avalon is a very attractive site:
http://reality.sgi.com/employees/chris_manchester/arthur.html
and it links you to another site called ARTHUR NET.
Last one for now:
http://www.zmall.com/bmm/books-faq/arthurian.html
This last site is a very long bibliography of all kinds of Arthur-
connected literature.
Just type Arthurian  or Arthur Net into a search engine and you will
probably find many sites to use.

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Scribner's Dictionary of the Middle Ages has quite a bit of info on
Arthurian legends.
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Thanks to all who replied.  I couldn't recall if we were sending on
addresses or not, so I didn't include any.

Linda

Linda Elliott
Library Media Teacher
Pleasant Valley High School
Chico, CA  95926

lelliott@cusd.chico.k12.ca.us