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It discusses Britain’s transition from Roman rule to Anglo-Saxon control between the fifth and sixth centuries, while highlighting the resulting historical “gap” and the political, religious, and literary forces that replaced records with legend. The book outlines major interpretive threads across multiple sections and sources.","Heretic Emperor  \nThe Lost History of King Arthur  \nV M Pickin  \nCopyright © V M Pickin 2009  \nContents  \nIntroduction  \nBook 1-The Controversy  \n1 The Riddle of Arthur  \n2 Britain’s Emperor  \n3 National Myths  \n4 Forbidden Histories  \nBook 2-The Legend  \n5 The Grail Mystery  \n6 Perfidious Britons  \n7 The Johannine Tradition  \n8 The Church and the Heretics  \n9 Sovereignty  \nBook 3-The Sources  \n10 Geoffrey of Monmouth  \n11 Bede  \n12 Nennius  \n13 Gildas  \nBook 4-The War  \n14 Restitutor Orbis  \n15 The Battle for Gaul  \n16 Alternative Empire  \nMaps  \nBibliography  \nHeretic Emperor: The Controversy  \nBOOK 1  \nTHE CONTROVERSY  \nBut the flames which once burnt around the memory of Arthur have long ago sunk into grey ashes. He wakes no national passions now. He has been taken up, with Roland and with Hector, and with all who died fighting against odds, into the Otherworld of the heroic imagination. His deeds are the heritage of all peoples; not least of the English folk against whom he battled. To this outcome many men have worked; the good clerk Wace, Chrétien de Troyes, the unknown author of the Lancelot and the Mort Artu, our own Thomas Malory. But most of all are we bound to praise that learned and unscrupulous old canon of St George's in Oxford, Geoffrey of Monmouth.  \nE K Chambers, Arthur of Britain, 1927  \nHeretic Emperor: The Controversy  \nContents  \nIntroduction 5  \n1 The Riddle of Arthur 9 The Arthur Stone [9], The Pseudo-History of Britain [11], Dux Bellorum [13], The Arthur Heresy [15], Sub-Roman Britain [18], Arthur and Tintagel [21],  \nThe Question of Arthur [25]  \n2 Britain’s Emperor 27  \nDark Century [27], Maximus [29], The End of Roman Britain [34],  \nIndependent Britain [37], The Roman Withdrawal [39], The Saxon Advent [40], Vortigern and Ambrosius [42], The Roman Missions [44], The Saxon Revolt [46], Britain’s Recovery [47], Riothamus [49], Vortimer [50], The Last of the Romans [51], Emperor Arthur [52], The Figure of Arthur [54], What’s in a name? [57]  \n3 National Myths 60 The Arthur Deception [60], The British Hero [61], An Age of Darkness [62], The Heirs of Rome [63], The Politics of History [67], Enlightenment and Empire [71]  \n4 Forbidden Histories 75  \nThe Nature of the Record [75], The Druids and Stonehenge [79],  \nThe Celts and Reincarnation [88], Bruti Britones [90], Geoffrey’s Deception [95], Geoffrey on Gildas [97], The Return of Arthur [101]  \nTables  \nArthur in the Written Record [19], History of Britain from Continental & Native  \nSources 360-500 [30], The Continental Sources for British Fifth-Century History [32]  \nHeretic Emperor: The Controversy  \nIntroduction  \nThe fact is that there is no contemporary or near-contemporary evidence for Arthur playing any decisive part in these events at all. No figure on the borderline of history and mythology has wasted more of the historian’s time.  \nJ N L Myres, 19861  \nHow many other instances can you think of, anywhere on the globe, in any time period, where a literate people simply failed to record their own history?  \nBritain in the fifth and sixth centuries is, it seems, unique. Here, the sequence of‘one damned thing after another’ goes unrecorded for almost two hundred years. This gaping hole in our past is now termed the Dark Ages. The professional historians who study the period seem to have no doubts about who is responsible for this lamentable state of affairs: the blame must rest with the British themselves.  \nThe era is bordered by two dominions. In the first decade of the fifth century Roman Britain came to an end. By 410 AD the Roman Empire, weakened by internal pressures and under threat from invading barbarian tribes, lost control of Britannia, her most northerly province. By the last decade of the sixth century the bulk of that province, the fertile lowlands of the south east, was in the hands of Britain’s own barbarian invaders, the Germanic peoples who became the English. 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