LC control no. | sh 00004339 |
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Topical heading | King Arthur's Round Table |
Variant(s) | Round Table, King Arthur's Winchester Round Table |
See also | Tables--England |
Found in | Work cat.: 00045514: Biddle, M. King Arthur's Round Table : an archaeological investigation, c2000: CIP galley (Round Table) Publisher's "advance news" for work cat.: Winchester Round Table ("The vast wooden disk known as King Arthur's Round Table has hung on the wall of the great Hall of Winchester Castle for six hundred years ... Built in the reign of Edward I, it was probably the centerpiece of a feast held at Winchester after a forgotten tournament celebrating marriage plans for the king's children; Edward III, founder of the Order of the Garter, had the top hung up in the castle hall as a symbol of his interest in the chivalric idea of the company of Arthur's Round Table; Henry VIII had it painted and used the figure of Arthur to support his claim to be arbiter of European power.") New Shell guide to England: p. 269 ("[In Winchester] ... at Castle Hall, near Westgate, the great hall can still be seen ... On the wall hangs what is called King Arthur's Round Table, marked out and inscribed for his knights. It was refurbished in Tudor times to honour the visiting Emperor Charles V.") |