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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.”
of historians familiar in his day. An eminent medievalist once conjectured that Geoffrey was deliberately writing a romance. Nothing of the sort; he was aiming solely at producing an account of events chiefly political in Britain from the fall of Troy to the seventh Christian century, such as would be accepted by intelligent and informed people who
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:
“But I advise them [Other Historians] 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. Geoffrey of Monmouth, Closing to “The History of the Kings of Britain”
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”.
Geoffrey claims in his dedication that the book is a translation of an "ancient book in the British language that told in orderly fashion the deeds of all the kings of Britain", given to him by Walter, Archdeacon of Oxford, but modern historians have dismissed this claim. [13]
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Jul 13, 2012 · Geoffrey died somewhere around December 1155, already acknowledged as a major historian but, in reality, one of the greatest legend makers Wales and Britain had ever seen.
