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Author : Miles Russell
Publisher : Amberley Publishing Limited
Page : 455 pages
File Size : 31,34 MB
Release : 2017-03-15
Category : History
ISBN : 1445662752
A fresh look at the text which introduced for the first time some of the key figures in British myth and legend.
Author : Geoffrey (of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph)
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 389 pages
File Size : 48,34 MB
Release : 2007
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1843832062
Written in the 1130s, Geoffrey's imaginative history of the Britons from Brutus to Cadwallader, and the first to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of Arthur, rapidly became a bestseller. An ideal text for scholars, this is a reprint of the Latin text with a facing English translation.
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Robinson
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 35,52 MB
Release : 2014-03-27
Category : History
ISBN : 147211731X
Here is the whole of recorded British royal history, from the legendary King Alfred the Great onwards, including the monarchies of England, Scotland, Wales and the United Kingdom for over a thousand years. Fascinating portraits are expertly woven into a history of division and eventual union of the British Isles - even royals we think most familiar are revealed in a new and sometimes surprising light. This revised and shortened edition of The Mammoth Book of British Kings & Queens includes biographies of the royals of recorded British history, plus an overview of the semi-legendary figures of pre-history and the Dark Ages - an accessible source for students and general readers.
Author : David W. Burchmore
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 23,75 MB
Release : 2019
Category : Britons
ISBN : 9780674241367
Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain--the earliest book to detail the legendary foundation of Britain and life of King Arthur--was widely read during the Middle Ages. This volume presents the first English translation of what may have been his source, the anonymous First Variant Version, attested in just a handful of manuscripts.
Author : Christopher Cannon
Publisher : Polity
Page : 269 pages
File Size : 39,88 MB
Release : 2008-04-07
Category : Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN : 0745624413
This book provides a boldly original account of Middle English literature from the Norman Conquest to the beginning of the sixteenth century. It argues that these centuries are, in fundamental ways, the momentous period in our literary history, for they are the long moment in which the category of literature itself emerged as English writing began to insist, for the first time, that it floated free of any social reality or function. This book also charts the complex mechanisms by which English writing acquired this power in a series of linked close readings of both canonical and more obscure texts. It encloses those readings in five compelling accounts of much broader cultural areas, describing, in particular, the productive relationship of Middle English writing to medieval technology, insurgency, statecraft and cultural place, concluding with an in depth account of the particular arguments, emphases and techniques English writers used to claim a wholly new jurisdiction for their work. Both this history and its readings are everywhere informed by the most exciting developments in recent Middle English scholarship as well as literary and cultural theory. It serves as an introduction to all these areas as well as a contribution, in its own right, to each of them.
Author : Cath Senker
Publisher : Arcturus Publishing
Page : 443 pages
File Size : 47,47 MB
Release : 2020-04-03
Category : History
ISBN : 1838576983
Who was the first king of England? Did Henry I assassinate his brother? How did 'Bloody Mary' reinstate Roman Catholicism? For more than 1,000 years the British monarchy has dramatically shaped national and international history. Kings and queens have conquered territory, imposed religious change and extracted taxation, each with their own motivations and ambitions. In this beautifully illustrated book, Cath Senker delves into the extraordinary history of the British monarchy and its host of kings, queens and pretenders. There have been benevolent rulers, violent ones, religious fanatics, brilliant economists, masters of diplomacy and the power hungry. But whether they have abused their power or used it for good, each monarch has played a part in the rich tapestry of British history, coping with both international and civil wars, rebellions and criticism. The Kings & Queens of Britain introduces this fascinating thousand-year history, providing rich biographical detail of Britain's remarkable monarchs.
Author : Kevin Flude
Publisher : Michael O'Mara Books
Page : 121 pages
File Size : 48,38 MB
Release : 2010-11-04
Category : History
ISBN : 1843176009
Featuring tales of murder, adultery, beheadings, civil war, usurpation and madness, Divorced, Beheaded, Died.takes you on a gallop through the history of all of England's kings and queens, plus some of the less well-known Scots and Welsh rulers.
Author : Mike Ashley
Publisher : Running PressBook Pub
Page : 808 pages
File Size : 47,2 MB
Release : 1999-09
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9780786706921
Covers more than 1000 rulers and two millennia of history
Author : Geoffrey of Monmouth
Publisher : Penguin UK
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 50,36 MB
Release : 2015-08-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0241241987
Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur, it is as much myth as it is history and its veracity was questioned by other medieval writers. But Geoffrey of Monmouth's powerful evocation of illustrious men and deeds captured the imagination of subsequent generations, and his influence can be traced through the works of Malory, Shakespeare, Dryden and Tennyson.
Author : Geoffrey of Monmouth
Publisher : Gottfried & Fritz
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 12,88 MB
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The History of the Kings of Britain was originally published under the Latin title, Historia Regum Britanniae, by Anglo-Saxon monk, Geoffrey of Monmouth. The chronicle is famous as the original source of the legend of Sir Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, as well as the Prophecies of Merlin. The chronicle is also the original source of “King Leir,” from which Shakespeare adapted his famous play by the same name. The chronicle recounts the origins of Britain from the time of Brutus and the Roman conquest of the British Isles. It is a semi-fantastical account of the origin of the British Kings and contains a storehouse of British history, fantasy and legend. An indispensible piece to any student, or admirer, of the history of the British Isles.