Chivalry, Love, and Heroic Christianity: Is Europe Pagan or Christian?

The culture of Medieval European chivalry, as preserved for us in Arthurian literature, is as distinctly heroic and European as the culture of the Greeks and the Vikings. And I believe that the corpus of Arthurian literature is as much an essential part of the Western, heroic canon as Homer and the Norse Sagas.

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0:00 A Pagan Christianity?
3:48 The Historical Arthur
8:08 Chretien de Troyes
13:54 Heroism vs Asceticism
17:29 The European Christ

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