Article: The Historiography of the Dragon: Heraldic Violence in the Alliterative Morte Arthure
On the political theology of King Arthur: Alex Mueller (University of Massachusetts, Boston), "The Historiography of the Dragon: Heraldic Violence in the Alliterative Morte Arthure " ("Studies in the Age of Chaucer", 32, 2010: pp. 295-324).
Excerpt: "For admirers of Ernst Kantorowicz's The King's Two Bodies, the myth of King Arthur has an irresistible appeal. ... Yet, as Giorgio Agamben points out, Kantorowicz fails to acknowledge the absolutist nature of sovereignty that this political theology entails. ... Optimism about Arthur's return abounds in most Arthurian texts, but resistance to such political theology can be found in the early fifteenth-century alliterative Morte Arthure, an intimate portrayal of Arthur as a prideful sovereign."
On the political theology of King Arthur: Alex Mueller (University of Massachusetts, Boston), "The Historiography of the Dragon: Heraldic Violence in the Alliterative Morte Arthure " ("Studies in the Age of Chaucer", 32, 2010: pp. 295-324).
Excerpt: "For admirers of Ernst Kantorowicz's The King's Two Bodies, the myth of King Arthur has an irresistible appeal. ... Yet, as Giorgio Agamben points out, Kantorowicz fails to acknowledge the absolutist nature of sovereignty that this political theology entails. ... Optimism about Arthur's return abounds in most Arthurian texts, but resistance to such political theology can be found in the early fifteenth-century alliterative Morte Arthure, an intimate portrayal of Arthur as a prideful sovereign."
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