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A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmounth

By Joshua Byron-Smith , Georgia Henley

Book information

Publisher
BRILL
Year
2020
ISBN
2019057692, 2019057693, 9789004405288, 9789004410398
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
5 MB (5500723 bytes)
Series
(Brill's Companions to European History)
Edition
1
Pages
\593
Time added
2021-06-14 06:50:45

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A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from across disciplines to offer new perspectives on Geoffrey of Monmouth, one of the most important and influential authors from medieval Britain and the founder of Arthurian literature as we know it. Contents Acknowledgements A Note on Translations Figures Abbreviations Notes on Contributors Introduction and Biography Part 1 Sources Chapter 1 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Welsh Sources Chapter 2 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Classical and Biblical Inheritance Chapter 3 Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English Past Chapter 4 Riddling Words: the Prophetiae Merlini Part 2 Contemporary Contexts Chapter 5 Early Manuscript Dissemination Chapter 6 Early Reactions to Geoffrey’s Work Chapter 7 The Latin Reception of the De gestis Britonum Chapter 8 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum and Twelfth-Century Romance Chapter 9 The Most Excellent Princes: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Medieval Welsh Historical Writing Chapter 10 Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Conventions of History Writing in Early 12th-Century England Part 3 Approaches Chapter 11 Colonial Preoccupations in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum Chapter 12 Geoffrey and Gender: the Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth as Medieval “Feminism” Chapter 13 Geoffrey of Monmouth and Race Chapter 14 Religion and the Church in Geoffrey of Monmouth Part 4 Reception Introduction to Part 4 The Medieval Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth Chapter 15 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Byzantine Reception Chapter 16 The De gestis Britonum in Castile Chapter 17 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Crown of Aragon Chapter 18 The Middle Dutch Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth Chapter 19 The English Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth Chapter 20 The Anglo-Norman and Continental French Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Corpus from the 12th to the 15th Centuries Chapter 21 The German Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth Chapter 22 The Old Icelandic “Brut” Chapter 23 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Ireland Chapter 24 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Work in Italy Chapter 25 Geoffrey of Monmouth in Portugal and Galicia Chapter 26 The Scottish Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth Chapter 27 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Wales Bibliography Manuscripts General Index

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