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Camelot Castle, A Motel and Restaurant in the Adelaide Hills

An image of 'Camelot Castle’ in the Adelaide Hills. The building has functioned as a hotel and wedding venue since 1972 and is described on their website as a ‘medieval themed complex’, and ‘a medieval Castle in the …

Tags: accommodation, Adelaide Hills, arcading, arches, Arthur, Arthurian, battlements, Camelot, castellation, castle, chapel, crenellation, hotel, hotels, motel, recreation, restaurant, SA, South Australia, tourism, towers, wedding, weddings

Camelot Castle, in the Adelaide Hills

An image of 'Camelot Castle’ in the Adelaide Hills. The building has functioned as a hotel and wedding venue since 1972 and is described on their website as a ‘medieval themed complex’, and ‘a medieval Castle in…

Tags: accommodation, Adelaide Hills, arcading, arches, Arthur, Arthurian, battlements, Camelot, castellation, castle, chapel, crenellation, hotel, hotels, motel, recreation, restaurant, SA, South Australia, tourism, towers, wedding, weddings

Literature and Culture: Representations of the Medieval

A fully online second-year undergraduate unit offered by Macquarie University through Open Universities Australia. The unit covers various aspects of medievalism, including William Morris and the Arts and Crafts Movement in Victoria, the…

Tags: Arthur, Arthurian, Arts and Crafts Movement, cinema, film, Gothic, King Arthur, Macquarie University, Marion Zimmer Bradley, online, Open Universities Australia, Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, Umberto Eco, Vic, Victoria, Victorian medievalism, William Morris

Medieval in the Modern World

A second and third year undergraduate unit taught at The University of Western Australia. The unit was created by Andrew Lynch and features novels, poetry and film from the nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first centuries that reinterpreted medieval…

"Camelot": The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack

An image of a record found in a York secondhand store featuring the soundtrack to the popular 1967 film "Camelot." An example of the popularity, commerciality and timelessness of Arthurian legends, the film was a box office hit in the West. The film…

Sir Galahad and the Pale Nun

This photograph, taken by Julia Margaret Cameron in 1874, is held by the Art Gallery of South Australia. It depicts Sir Galahad, one of the Knights of the Round Table in Arthurian legend, and a nun. The illegitimate son of Lancelot and Elaine of…

The Loving Cup

This work by Dante Gabriel Rossetti, arenowned nineteenth-century painter and member of the Pre-Raphaelite Brotherhood, depicts a young woman in a voluminous medieval-looking gown raising a golden cup decorated with a heart shaped design to her lips.…

Tags: art, Arthurian, Arthurian romance, chivalry, cup, Dante Gabriel Rossetti (1828-1882), Gouache, ivy, knight, legend, medieval clothing, nostalgia, Pre-Raphaelite, replica, romance, SA, South Australia, Victorian, watercolour

La Belle Dame sans merci, by Arthur Hughes

This painting by English artist Arthur Hughes was acquired by the National Gallery of Victoria in 1919 with funds from the Felton Bequest. It portrays a scene fromthe well-known ballad of the same name penned in 1819 by Romantic poet John Keats. The…

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