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   Geoffrey ends his work by saying he will leave the Saxon kings to the Saxon historians and recommends his contemporaries do the same: “I advise them to be silent concerning the kings of the Britons.”

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   Apr 9, 2019 · Geoffrey ends by requesting historians, his contemporaries, such as William of Malmesbury, “to be silent concerning the “History of the Britons,” since they have not that book written in the British tongue, which Walter, Archdeacon of Oxford, brought out of Brittany”.

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   Feb 15, 2024 · On the one hand, Geoffrey's literary methods owe more to English historians than he claims. His Historia imitates the basic structure of both William's and Henry's histories, in his use of sparse details at the beginning and end of his narrative, coupled with an expansive account of important rulers in the early parts of the latter half of his ...

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   Sep 12, 2012 · After pages of what most commentators today regard as sheer invention, Geoffrey of Monmouth suddenly pauses his account of King Arthur to refer his audience to the ancient British book that he says is the source of his Historia regum Britannie:

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   Mar 30, 2017 · As Geoffrey’s book (or translation) was largely about mythology and folklore, the use of the title, The History of the Kings of Britain, caused the text to be filed away as a faulty history book rather than a compelling collection of British myths and folk stories.

6. www.thecollector.com › who-was-geoffrey-of-monmouthGeoffrey of Monmouth: The Man Who Gave Us King Arthur and Merlin

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   Mar 10, 2024 · Geoffrey of Monmouth’s work on history treads a murky line between fact and fiction, especially considering his creative liberties with King Arthur. Here’s why: Doubt cast on other writings: His fictionalized account of Arthur raises questions about the accuracy of his other historical writings.

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   Why did Geoffrey ask historians to be silent?

   • Geoffrey ends by requesting historians, his contemporaries, such as William of Malmesbury, “to be silent concerning the “History of the Britons,” sincethey have not that book written in the British tongue, which Walter, Archdeacon of Oxford, brought out of Brittany”. This is mere open banter. Geoffrey was not likely to show them that book!

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   Was Geoffrey a real historian?

   • Geoffrey, as has been said, isnot a real historian, but something much more interesting. He introduced to the world the story of King Arthur, which at once became the source and centre of hundreds of French romances, in verse or prose, and of poetry down to Tennyson and William Morris.

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   Who gave Geoffrey A copy of the history of the Kings?

   • Geoffrey claimed that the ancient text from which he gleaned his translations was given to him by a man he had befriended at the university, an archdeacon of Oxford. The History of the Kings of Britain (Historia regum Britanniae) was likely completed around 1138 during a tumultuous period of civil war in England.

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   Why was Geoffrey a good book?

   • Geoffrey’s was a book that gave delight to every one, ladies as well as men, for in the marriage of the traitor Modred with Guinevere the wife of Arthur, and in Arthur’s revenge, was the germ of a world of romances.

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   Should the British be silent about the kings of the British?

   • But I advise them to be silent concerning the kings of the Britons, since they have not that book written in the British tongue, which Walter, archdeacon of Oxford, brought out of Brittany, and which being a true history, published in honour of those princes, I have thus taken care to translate. Thompson, Aaron and J.A. Giles.

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   Why was the history of the kings of Britain a faulty history book?

   • As Geoffrey’s book (or translation) was largely about mythology and folklore, the use of the title, The History of the Kings of Britain, caused the text to be filed away as a faulty history book rather than a compelling collection of British myths and folk stories.

   The Unlikely Man Who Popularized The Stories Of King Arthur—Geoffre…

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8. www.jstor.org › stable › pdfGEOFFREY OF MONMOUTH'S MOTIVES FOR WRITING HIS HISTORIA

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   Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, so vastly influential not only on subsequent literature, but also on historiography and even politics, was written between 1130 and 1138.