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1. www.bbc.co.uk › blogs › waleshistoryBBC - Wales History: Geoffrey of Monmouth: making fact out of ...

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   Jul 13, 2012 · His name was Geoffrey of Monmouth and his words were believed implicitly, from the time of their creation in the 12th century right down to the days of Queen Elizabeth.

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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.”

3. www.britannica.com › biography › Geoffrey-of-MonmouthGeoffrey Of Monmouth | Medieval Bishop & Chronicler - Britannica

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   Geoffrey Of Monmouth (died 1155) was a medieval English chronicler and bishop of St. Asaph (1152), whose major work, the Historia regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain), brought the figure of Arthur into European literature. In three passages of the Historia Geoffrey describes himself as “Galfridus Monemutensis,” an indication ...

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

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   Now why did he think this a good thing to do? The first reason is racial patriotism. There is no better measure of a people's civilization, as Gaston Paris once said, than its interest in its own history. The writing of national histories was a feature of the rapid advance of culture in the first

5. www.menofthewest.net › geoffrey-of-monmouth-andGeoffrey of Monmouth and the Stories of Arthur - Men Of The West

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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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6. thehistorianshut.com › 2017/03/30 › the-unlikely-manThe Unlikely Man Who Popularized The ... - The Historian's Hut

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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.

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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!

   Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Stories of Arthur

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   Was Geoffrey a good historian?

   • Geoffrey was a well read man, drawing on Welsh stories, oral folktales, lots of classical texts as well as on the work of other historians of his time and earlier. But the work is supposedly reliant on one source in particular.

   Geoffrey of Monmouth - Tales of Britain and Ireland

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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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   What if Geoffrey of Monmouth brought back Arthurian literature?

   • If he brought these tales back and if the Welsh poets took them up,there would be plenty of Welsh Arthurian literature between 1077 and 1140, or thereabouts, when Geoffrey of Monmouth produced his “History of the Britons”.

   Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Stories of Arthur

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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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   Where did Geoffrey's version of British history come from?

   • Only much later did it become clear that Geoffrey's version of British history came from a range of different sources. These included a ninth century Welsh book of history (written in both Latin and Welsh), the work of monks like Bede and Gildas, the poems of several Welsh bards - and, in particular, his own rather vivid imagination.

   Geoffrey of Monmouth: making fact out of fiction - BBC

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8. talesofbritainandireland.com › geoffrey-of-monmouthGeoffrey of Monmouth - Tales of Britain and Ireland

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   But dating almost from its genesis Geoffrey’s work came in for some serious criticism from sceptical scholars searching for true history, in spite of Geoffrey’s “I have an ancient book” defence.