(Ebook pdf) The History of the Kings of Britain (Penguin Classics)
▲ Geoffrey of Monmouth ▲
| #21196 in Books | Geoffrey of Monmouth | 1977-01-27 | 1977-01-27 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | 7.80 x.90 x5.00l,.62 | File Name: 0140441700 | 384 pages | The History of the Kings of Britain
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Five Stars|By Salomesfred|Great book!|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| History or Myth?|By Corty|It's quite interesting to read history, or is it literature, from the 12 th century.|0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Very good book, however I wish the introduction h|About the Author|Very little is known of Geoffrey of Monmouth. He seems to have lived for a time in Oxford and in 1151 he became Bishop Elect of St Asaph, North Wales. He was ordained at Westminster in 1152. According to the Welsh Chronicles he died in 1155.
Completed in 1136, this classic chronicle traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician, and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur, it is as much myth as it is history, and its veracity was questioned by other medieval writers. But Geoffrey of Monmouth’s powerful evocatio...
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