POLITICS: DEMOCRATIC

TRADITION
unit 3
 The Bear King and The
Round Table

 One contemporary Arthurian source

 The earliest full stories concerning
Medieval Legends tell us
that Camelot was none other
than the Great Historic City
of Winchester in the heart
of modern Hampshire.
"Concerning the Ruin of Britain", or
"De Excidio Britanniae" was written
by the Northern British monk, St.
Gildas, in the mid-6th century. The
passage places Arthur firmly around
the turn of the 6th century.
King Arthur appear to be the little
known Welsh tales of "Culhwch and
Olwen" and the "Dream of
Rhonabwy,” dating from before the
11th century-
 Magna Carta

King John signs Magna

Carta 1215
 The Peasant’s Revolt
(1381)

The Plague (Black Death )

First Pestilence: 1348-1351
Fourth Pestilence: 1371-1375
The Civil War 1642-1646
Oliver Cromwell

Execution of Charles I at Whitehall, 1649

 The Glorious Revolution 1688

Presentation of
The Bill of Rights 1689

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