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Independence or alms? Kangana remark sparks national outburst as parties ask President take back her Padma Shri. For a while, the United States thought itself the new Camelot, as the presidency of John Kennedy inspired new optimism, foresight and a refined vision of possibility. A Utopia of colorful banners, noble knights and ladies, and the security of impregnable walls.
It inspired us, just a little, because we thought we had it, rather than having to build it. We had glimpses of who we could be in the hands of inspiring, untainted leadership and the confidence that it brings.
We live in a very different world today. A world where the mightiest city can be crippled by a handful of ill-fated passenger jets, where power vents its rage thousands of miles away, leading to the deaths of countless innocents and the escalating madness of civil war.
We see and even expect religious conflicts that blind people to their own humanity, not unlike the Dark Age when chivalry was first born. We live in a world of illusions, where money and pride and the insatiable thirst for power and celebrity choke us to the vision of something more real and perfect.
We see churches emulating rock and roll concerts, leaders betraying their trusts in every way imaginable, and a divided people who balk at reconciliation, even as all we cherish crumbles down around us.
We view in horror as the hubris of a government refused and belittled the sage advice of proven allies, and pressed us into a conflict that fuels the very terrorism we hoped to end. We equate Jesus with personal wealth and gun ownership and the same kind of fundamentalism that his example was supposed to end.
We watch impotently as genocides burst on the scene, and global warming measures the cost of our unwavering greed. With all that going on, a voice calls out over the Internet, seeking to know if you believe in the dream called Camelot, a world where ethical choices make all the difference. After Joseph leaves, Agrestes persecutes the Christians, eventually going completely mad and throwing himself into a fire.
Joseph then returns and sees that Camelot has converted to Christianity, "in the middle of the city he had the Church of St. Stephen the Martyr built," the text reads. This building would remain Camelot's largest church throughout the Vulgate cycles with additional, smaller, churches also being built.
Of course, Islam didn't even exist in the first century, and why the anonymous author s of the Vulgate cycle claimed that first century Camelot was an Islamic city is unclear. Camelot was described as a city surrounded by forests and meadows with plenty of open space for knightly tournaments which were held frequently. When a tournament was held, wooden reviewing stands for the ladies and maidens would be set up, one of which is mentioned as running for half a league about 2.
The text said that Camelot was a "rich and well provided town" but offers few details as to its layout or exact size. It was small enough that during a particularly lavish court so many barons and nobles came that "not a tenth of them could be lodged in the city of Camelot, and the others found shelter in the meadowland, which was wide and beautiful, in tents and pavilions," translation by Rupert Pickens.
The church of St. Stephen apparently contained a large burial ground as numerous knights are mentioned as being interred there. Indeed, Camelot saw more than its share of wars in the Vulgate stories. The city's defenses were formidable, surviving a war against the Saxons and another invasion in which Cornishmen aided the Saxons. The text says that Arthur held court in a castle or a tower as it's sometimes called furnished with a main courtyard, bedrooms, areas for feasting and, apparently, the Round Table.
The castle is close enough to a body of water so that in one story Arthur could see a boat coming into Camelot holding what turned out to be a dead maiden. While tournaments are held frequently, the people of Camelot also enjoyed other, less-violent, forms of recreation.
In one story, Lancelot gives King Arthur a fine chess set, knowing that Queen Guinevere is a good player. According to one story, an inscription was found saying that the quest for the Holy Grail a quest discussed at length in the Vulgate must begin years after the resurrection of Jesus.
This gives a rough date for when King Arthur supposedly ruled Camelot. Its place is fixed in the imagination through works such as T. But where did the stories come from? But Tennyson didn't invent Camelot. And Malory got his story from Chretien de Troyes's 12th-century work Lancelot, which contains the first mention of Camelot: "King Arthur A Literal Place?
Some historians say Camelot was a place in Scotland called Camelon. But most archaeologists on Arthur's trail have searched in England.
At the ruins of a castle in Cornwall, a stone was found with Artognov inscribed on it. Close to Arthur--but close enough? A large round table was found at Winchester Cathedral. But it was made hundreds of years after the time when Arthur supposedly lived. In Glastonbury Abbey, the bones of a man Arthur's size were found, but nobody could prove they were his. If Camelot were a real place, wouldn't there be traces of it?
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