Logres (legendary kingdom)

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Logres is the legendary realm in Arthurian myth often identified with King Arthur’s idealized Britain, symbolizing a chivalric and spiritually charged vision of the kingdom.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arthurian location
legendary kingdom
mythical realm
alternativeName King Arthur's court
surface form: Logres of King Arthur
appearsIn Arthurian legend
surface form: Arthurian romances

Vulgate Cycle
surface form: French Arthurian prose cycles

Vulgate Cycle
surface form: Post-Vulgate Cycle

Vulgate Cycle
associatedWith Queste del Saint Graal
surface form: Holy Grail quest

King Arthur
King Arthur's court
surface form: Knights of the Round Table

King Arthur's court
surface form: Round Table
capitalIs King Arthur's court
surface form: Camelot
contrastedWith wasteland motif in Arthurian myth
describedAs idealized Britain
equatedWith King Arthur's Britain
surface form: Arthur’s Britain
fallsBecauseOf adultery of Lancelot and Guinevere
treachery of Mordred
genre medieval romance setting
hasCharacteristic chivalric
spiritually charged
hasCulturalContext medieval Western Europe
hasMotif the Once and Future King
surface form: the once and future king
hasStatusInNarrative golden age of Arthur’s reign
hasTheme conflict between sin and grace
moral testing of knights
spiritual renewal
influenced modern fantasy literature depictions of ideal kingdoms
influencedBy medieval Christian symbolism
languageOfOrigin Middle English
Middle French
locatedInFiction Great Britain
surface form: Britain
narrativeFunction ideal courtly center of Arthurian world
partOf Arthurian legend
relatedTo Britain in late antique and early medieval setting
ruledBy King Arthur
symbolizes a just kingdom
chivalric order
ideal Christian kingship
timeInFiction sub-Roman Britain
usedAsAllegoryFor Christian commonwealth
moral and spiritual order

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King Arthur's Britain hasLocationContext Logres (legendary kingdom)