National Icon: The Winchester Round Table and the Revelation of Authority

Whitman discusses about the Winchester Round Table and revelation of English royal authority at the turn of the medieval and early modern periods. From the perspective of archaeological investigation, the Winchester Round Table emerges primarily as expression of political, chivalric, and imperial aims in the late medieval and early modern England. Whitman states that the Winchester Round Table not only exhibits a dramatic turn in the portrayal of a legendary king but it remains one of the most stunning and provocative acts of transfiguration in the movement to the modern world.