The History of the Kings of Britain: An edition and translation of the De gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae) (Arthurian Studies) by Geoffrey of Monmouth, Neil Wright, Michael D. Reeve

The History of the Kings of Britain: An edition and translation of the De gestis Britonum (Historia Regum Britanniae) (Arthurian Studies)

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Neil Wright, Michael D. Reeve

307 pages first pub 1136 (editions)

nonfiction classics history challenging informative slow-paced

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Written in the 1130s, Geoffrey's imaginative history of the Britons from Brutus to Cadwallader, the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of Arthur, rapidly became a bestseller in the British Isles and Francophone Europe...

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