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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…

â€˜Under Merlinâ€™s Spellâ€™

This entertainment piece from The West Australianâ€™s online edition reviews the BBC series Merlin (2008). At the time the article was written in 2010, the second season of the series was being aired on Australian television by Channel 10. The…

"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…

Morgan Le Fay

This watercolour by Australian artist Christian Waller was gifted to the Art Gallery of Ballarat in 1933 by the Women’s Association. It depicts a woman in medieval dress whom the title identifies as Morgan Le Fay. Morgan Le Fay is a…

How Sir Bedivere cast the Sword Excalibur into the Water

This work was gifted to the Art Gallery of South Australia in 1960 by Mrs R.A. Haste. It is a line-block reproduction on paper depicting a scene from Thomas Maloryâ€™s fifteenth-century canonical Arthurian text Le Morte dâ€™Arthur.…

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