Geoffrey of Monmouth.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jankulak, Karen.

Series:

Writers of Wales

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154--Criticism and interpretation.

Great Britain--History--To 1066--Historiography.

Historians--Wales--Biography.

Local Subjects:

Geoffrey, of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, 1100?-1154--Criticism and interpretation.

Great Britain--History--To 1066--Historiography.

Historians--Wales--Biography.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (128 p.)

Place of Publication:

Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Anyone interested in Arthurian Studies will know of the central role played by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the development and spread of the Arthurian legend from Britain to medieval Europe. But Geoffrey's material, both his History of the Kings of Britain and his Life of Merlin, went far beyond Arthur and his deeds: it presented, for the first time, a coherent and proud account of Britain's early history, from its foundation to its eclipse at the hands of the Anglo-Saxons. The extent to which the enigmatic Geoffrey, at once an astonishingly diligent researcher and a shameless inventor of fact, tr

Contents:

Acknowledgements; Introduction; Geoffrey of Monmouth and his Work; Historia Regum Britanniae and its Sources; Geoffrey's Models: Thinking about History in MedievalWales and Ireland; Geoffrey's Welsh Inheritance: the Red Dragon and thePromise of Sovereignty; Britain and Rome; Magnus Maximus and the Colonization of Brittany; The Arthurian Section of Historia Regum Britanniae; Merlin, Prophetiae Merlini and Vita Merlini; Welsh Tradition and Geoffrey's Legacy; Conclusion; Select Bibliography

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

ISBN:

9780708323144

0708323146

OCLC:

664233662