%0 Journal Article
%A Andrew Breeze
%D 2024
%C Berlin, Germany
%I Peter Lang Verlag
%J Mediaevistik
%@ 2199-806X
%N 1
%V 36
%T Mary Bateman, Local Place and the Arthurian Tradition in England and Wales, 1400-1700. Cambridge: D. S. Brewer, 2023, 328 pp.
%R 10.3726/med.2023.01.17
%U https://www.peterlang.com/document/1517023
%X Congratulations are due for this study of a supreme British wild-goose chase. It was the attempt by antiquarians including John Leland (d. 1552) and William Camden (d. 1623) to give King Arthur a local habitation (a quest active even now). Historical Celtic Philology being unknown to Leland and Camden, Dr. Bateman thus describes rightly what they and others got wrong. She is