07 May 2018
Top 5 Myths About the Middle Ages
I have posted before on my frustration with the abysmal ignorance of the middle ages. Here are two good videos on the 'myths' of the middle ages. My only caveat is with the second. His fifth 'myth' deals with Arthur. Whilst I agree with him that the characters of the Matter of Britain never existed as they are portrayed in film, I think their is a great deal of evidence, indeed, that at least Arthur existed as comes littoris Saxonici per Britanniam , Count of the Saxon Shore, a military office of the Late Empire, which was quite likely retained by the 'Roman' Britons after the withdrawal of the Legions.
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