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May 14, 2024 · Geoffrey of Monmouth (c.1100–c.1150) comes in for heavy criticism for having embellished and perpetuated the Arthurian legends, which is unnecessary and excessive in the context of Edward’s life. However, in this case the emphasis should not be placed on what is generally accepted about Arthur – that there is little if any concrete ...
2 days ago · About 1136, Geoffrey of Monmouth wrote his fanciful history of the kings of Britain, giving Arthur center stage. Unlike Nennius, Geoffrey refers to Arthur as rex rather than dux, and even more importantly, by Geoffrey's day, the word rex had connotations different from those it had in Nennius's earlier age?connotations that our word "king" now ...
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May 10, 2024 · Geoffrey of Monmouth (just up the road) linked Caerleon with Arthur in his History of the Kings of Britain, and Thomas Malory often placed King Arthur in the ancient fortress community. Even Alfred, Lord Tennyson came to town for inspiration when working on his own Arthurian masterpiece, The Idylls of the King.
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1 day ago · The textual sources for Arthur are usually divided into those written before Geoffrey's Historia (known as pre-Galfridian texts, from the Latin form of Geoffrey, Galfridus) and those written afterwards, which could not avoid his influence (Galfridian, or post-Galfridian, texts).
Apr 24, 2024 · Geoffrey of Monmouth’s 12th-century mythmaking had championed the West Country and Cornwall as a setting for Arthurian exploits and Cadbury Castle (Iron Age hill fort), mooted as Camelot, was just down the road. Pilgrims, including royalty, poured in and so did the cash.
May 11, 2024 · To trace their ancestors to the Greek heroes of divine descent, both the Roman poet Virgil and the British historian Geoffrey of Monmouth contrive royal blood connections through Aeneas, a legendary prince of Troy who fled to Italy after the Trojan War.
Apr 23, 2024 · Geoffrey Chaucer (born c. 1342/43, London?, England—died October 25, 1400, London) was the outstanding English poet before Shakespeare and “the first finder of our language.”. His The Canterbury Tales ranks as one of the greatest poetic works in English. He also contributed importantly in the second half of the 14th century to the ...
