1Upon first describing his upcoming book The Sword in the Stone (1938) to a friend, T. H. White explained: “It is not a satire. Indeed, I am afraid it is rather warm-hearted—mainly about birds and beasts.” But far from restricting the Arthurian legend to an idealized animalistic vision, the author uses the representation of nature to question the political issues of the medieval myth. His rewriting of the legend, including a long development about the king’s education to power, highlights the key role of nature in both the image we keep of the Middle Ages, and the political and social organisation of human beings. White’s environmentalist approach to the legend has been recognized in The Sword in the Stone, the first volume of The Once and Future King pentalogy; there Merlyn himself is well aware that readers may find in his prophetic vision a “beastly anachronism.” However, this topic has yet to be explored for the whole pentalogy, which is less “warm-hearted” and deals more with the tragedy of warfare. Rewriting one of the most famous stories of medieval Europe during the wartime years, White asked: “What can we learn about the abolition of war from animals?”
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Introduction In : Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism : Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme [en ligne]. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2021 (généré le 30 mai 2023). Disponible sur Internet : <http://books.openedition.org/efr/28102>. ISBN : 9782728314942. DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/books.efr.28102.
di Carpegna Falconieri, T., Savy, P., & Yawn, L. (Eds.) 2021. Introduction. In Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism : Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome. doi :10.4000/books.efr.28102
di Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso, et al., (dir..) “Introduction”. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2021. Web. <http://books.openedition.org/efr/28102>.
DI CARPEGNA FALCONIERI, Tommaso (dir.) ; SAVY, Pierre (dir.) ; et YAWN, Lila (dir.). Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism : Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme. Nouvelle édition [en ligne]. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2021 (généré le 30 mai 2023). Disponible sur Internet : <http://books.openedition.org/efr/18397>. ISBN : 9782728314942. DOI : https://doi.org/10.4000/books.efr.18397.
di Carpegna Falconieri, T., Savy, P., & Yawn, L. (Eds.) 2021. Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism : Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome. doi :10.4000/books.efr.18397
di Carpegna Falconieri, Tommaso, et al., ed. Middle Ages without borders: a conversation on medievalism : Medioevo senza frontiere : una conversazione sul medievalismo / Moyen Âge sans frontières : conversation sur le médiévalisme. Rome : Publications de l’École française de Rome, 2021. Web. <http://books.openedition.org/efr/18397>.
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