GEOFFREY ASHE - King Arthur's Avalon. The Story of Glastonbury

London England, Collins, 1966. Fourth Impression, Binding: Cloth, Fine/Near Fine. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall Harback Hardback. The history of Glastonbury Illuminates the history of the United Kingdom. By assembling a mass of data hitherto scattered through scholarly books and periodicals, and never grasped as a whole even by the scholars themselves, the author reveals Glastonbury's distinctive character in the Dark Ages as the meeting-place of Saxon and Celt: the unique glory of its Abbey as the fountainhead of English mediaeval civilization; the key role of its abbots in the moulding of the Church and State; the importance of its traditions for the growth of national consciousness; the importance of its legends for the mystical theory of the grail, a significant factor in European religious thought. 384 pp.