The New Crusaders: Images of the Crusades in the 19th and Early 20th Centuries Book

Arthur and his Round Tables monopoly on violence created a system that was bound to fail despite the basis on chivalric and Christian values. When all you have is a form of violence (jousting, sword-to-sword combat, or armies attacking/sieging) to settle all disputes (all questions of guilt/innocence/honor, or just whether I will allow you to cross this bridge), you are bound to create blood feuds the inevitably set up your ultimate collapse. This is the fourth and final book of Howard Pyle's stories of Arthur and Camelot, telling the age-old tale of Sir Galahad and the Grail, and also the events up to and including the battle for England between Mordred and Arthur. This is the fourth and final book on his series of Arthur. (There are many versions of the Arthur tale out there, i.e. "La Morte D'Arthur by Malory) I read the 1910 edition with older prose--curiously, at the very en, the author thought that the day and age he lived in currently (1910) was a time of such great peace ("For less and less is there war within the world, and more and more is there peace and concord and goodwill amongst men" pg 246) that prophesied the time that Arthur could return ("wake from his sleep"). Well, the 20th century probably had a few surprises for Mr Pyle.