Peter Ackroyd is an English novelist, biographer and critic with a specialist interest in the history and culture of London. He is noted for his "technically innovative novels", the volume of work he
Ackroyd in 2007
Le Morte d'Arthur is a 15th-century Middle English prose compilation and reworking by Sir Thomas Malory of tales about the legendary King Arthur, Guinevere, Lancelot, Merlin and the Knights of the Rou
Peter Ackroyd
…2009 The Canterbury Tales – A Retelling (Penguin Classics) ISBN 9780143106173 2010 The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend – A Retelling (Penguin Classics) ISBN 9780143106951 2013 Three Brothers (Nan A. Talese) ISBN 9780385538619…
A 14th-century Polish fresco at Siedlęcin Tower depicting Lancelot fighting the evil knight Turquine in a scene from the French Lancelot-Grail Cycle.
A page from the Winchester Manuscript of the Morte d'Arthur, c. 1471–1481.
A 14th-century "Round Table" at Winchester Castle, Malory's Camelot.
The holy island of Mont-Saint-Michel where Arthur slays an evil giant in one of the only few supernatural elements of the Roman War story.