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A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval Britain, Geoffrey (d. 1154) popularized Arthurian literature and left an indelible mark on European romance, history, and genealogy. Despite this outsized influence, Geoffrey's own life, background, and motivations are little understood. The volume situates his life and works within their immediate historical context, and frames them within current critical discussion across the humanities. By necessity, this volume concentrates primarily on Geoffrey's own life and times, with the reception of his works covered by a series of short encyclopaedic overviews, organized by language, that serve as guides to further reading.
Contributors are Jean Blacker, Elizabeth Bryan, Thomas H. Crofts, Siân Echard, Fabrizio De Falco, Michael Faletra, Ben Guy, Santiago Gutiérrez García, Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, Paloma Gracia, Georgia Henley, David F. Johnson, Owain Wyn Jones, Maud Burnett McInerney, Françoise Le Saux, Barry Lewis, Coral Lumbley, Simon Meecham-Jones, Paul Russell, Victoria Shirley, Joshua Byron Smith, Jaakko Tahkokallio, Hélène Tétrel, Rebecca Thomas, Fiona Tolhurst.
Contents
Contents
A Note on Translations
List of Figures
Abbreviations
Contributors
Introduction and Biography
Joshua Byron Smith
Part 1: Sources
1 Geoffrey of Monmouth's Welsh Sources
Ben Guy
2 Geoffrey of Monmouth's Classical and Biblical Inheritance
Paul Russell
3 Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English Past
Rebecca Thomas
4 Riddling Words: the Prophetiae Merlini
Maud Burnett McInerney
Part 2: Contemporary Contexts
5 Early Manuscript Dissemination
Jaakko Tahkokallio
6 Early Reactions to Geoffrey's Work
Simon Meecham-Jones
7 The Latin Reception of the De gestis Britonum
Siân Echard
8 Geoffrey of Monmouth's De gestis Britonum and Twelfth-Century Romance
Françoise Le Saux
9 The Most Excellent Princes: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Medieval Welsh Historical Writing
Owain Wyn Jones
10 Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Conventions of History Writing in Early 12th-Century England
Georgia Henley
Part 3: Approaches
11 Colonial Preoccupations in Geoffrey of Monmouth's De gestis Britonum
Michael Faletra
12 Geoffrey and Gender: the Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth as Medieval "Feminism"
Fiona Tolhurst
13 Geoffrey of Monmouth and Race
Coral Lumbley
14 Religion and the Church in Geoffrey of Monmouth
Barry Lewis
Part 4: Reception
15 Geoffrey of Monmouth's Byzantine Reception
Thomas H. Crofts
16 The De gestis Britonum in Castile
Paloma Gracia
17 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Crown of Aragon
Nahir I. Otaño Gracia
18 The Middle Dutch Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth
David F. Johnson
19 The English Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth
Elizabeth Bryan
20 The Anglo-Norman and Continental French Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Corpus from the 12th to the 15th Centuries
Jean Blacker
21 The German Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth
Joshua Byron Smith
22 The Old Icelandic "Brut"
Hélène Tétrel
23 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Ireland
Joshua Byron Smith
24 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Work in Italy
Fabrizio De Falco
25 Geoffrey of Monmouth in Portugal and Galicia
Santiago Gutiérrez García
26 The Scottish Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth
Victoria Shirley
27 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Wales
Ben Guy
Bibliography
Index
