Small gem from Winchester

I still haven't found the energy to do a full conference report, as I had planned, but one gem I learned from one of the cinema panels (and there were a few) was that the consensus among Arthurian film scholars seems to be that the best Arthurian films are Knightriders, Monty Python and the Holy Grail and The Fisher King. Excalibur seems to be regarded as pretty incoherent.

Another conference nugget

...is that a couple of eminent scholars told me that they approved of the concept of Sir Gawain's book, even though they hadn't read it yet - one said that it was time that someone articulated the arguments that he makes about the good value of what little documentary evidence there is for the existence of Arthur.