Arthur and the Kings of Britain - The Historical Truth Behind the MythsPaperback
Arthur and the Kings of Britain - The Historical Truth Behind the MythsPaperback Written in 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) purported to…
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Arthur and the Kings of Britain - The Historical Truth Behind the MythsPaperback
Written in 1136 by Geoffrey of Monmouth, the Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) purported to chronicle the British monarchy from the arrival of the Trojan Brutus, grandson of Aeneas, through to the seventh century AD. It was the first work to outline the story of King Arthur. The Historia was a medieval best-seller, and copies spread across the whole of western Europe.
A new examination of the text, however, shows that it is very much more than that. The Historia has long been dismissed as an unreliable piece of medieval propaganda. Miles Russell explains how individual elements can be traced back to the first century BC, a time when Britain was making first contact with Rome.
Geoffrey of Monmouth's skill was to weave these early traditions together with material culled from post-Roman sources in order to create a national epic. In doing so, he also created King
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