{"product_id":"a-companion-to-geoffrey-of-monmouth-9789004405288","title":"A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval Britain, Geoffrey (d. 1154) popularized Arthurian literature and left an indelible mark on European romance, history, and genealogy. Despite this outsized influence, Geoffrey’s own life, background, and motivations are little understood. The volume situates his life and works within their immediate historical context, and frames them within current critical discussion across the humanities. By necessity, this volume concentrates primarily on Geoffrey’s own life and times, with the reception of his works covered by a series of short encyclopaedic overviews, organized by language, that serve as guides to further reading.    Contributors are Jean Blacker, Elizabeth Bryan, Thomas H. Crofts, Siân Echard, Fabrizio De Falco, Michael Faletra, Ben Guy, Santiago Gutiérrez García, Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, Paloma Gracia, Georgia Henley, David F. Johnson, Owain Wyn Jones, Maud Burnett McInerney, Françoise Le Saux, Barry Lewis, Coral Lumbley, Simon Meecham-Jones, Paul Russell, Victoria Shirley, Joshua Byron Smith, Jaakko Tahkokallio, Hélène Tétrel, Rebecca Thomas, Fiona Tolhurst.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"Georgia Henley and Joshua Byron Smith’s Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth presents a very welcome addition to scholarship on a significant figure in Insular, and wider European, literature and history. The collection brings together both longstanding and new scholarship on Geoffrey’s work, situated in medieval multilingual and cross-border contexts, highlighting, alongside established lines of enquiry, important new areas in which I hope we will continue to see future developments. [...] the Companion encompasses a universe of scholarship, and [...] presents a rich resource. A comprehensive state of the field of immense value to a graduate, and a sophisticated undergraduate, student audience, it is also essential reading for scholars engaged with advanced work on Geoffrey of Monmouth and his legacy, which will leave you full of ideas of what we might do with Geoffrey next.\" Victoria Flood, in The Medieval Review, 22.06.18. See the full review here.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eContents  A Note on Translations  List of Figures  Abbreviations  Contributors    Introduction and Biography   Joshua Byron Smith    Part 1: Sources  1 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Welsh Sources   Ben Guy    2 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Classical and Biblical Inheritance   Paul Russell    3 Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English Past   Rebecca Thomas    4 Riddling Words: the Prophetiae Merlini   Maud Burnett McInerney    Part 2: Contemporary Contexts  5 Early Manuscript Dissemination   Jaakko Tahkokallio    6 Early Reactions to Geoffrey’s Work   Simon Meecham-Jones    7 The Latin Reception of the De gestis Britonum   Siân Echard    8 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum and Twelfth-Century Romance   Françoise Le Saux    9 The Most Excellent Princes: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Medieval Welsh Historical Writing   Owain Wyn Jones    10 Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Conventions of History Writing in Early 12th-Century England   Georgia Henley    Part 3: Approaches  11 Colonial Preoccupations in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum   Michael Faletra    12 Geoffrey and Gender: the Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth as Medieval “Feminism”   Fiona Tolhurst    13 Geoffrey of Monmouth and Race   Coral Lumbley    14 Religion and the Church in Geoffrey of Monmouth   Barry Lewis    Part 4: Reception  15 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Byzantine Reception   Thomas H. Crofts    16 The De gestis Britonum in Castile   Paloma Gracia    17 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Crown of Aragon   Nahir I. Otaño Gracia    18 The Middle Dutch Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth   David F. Johnson    19 The English Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth   Elizabeth Bryan    20 The Anglo-Norman and Continental French Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Corpus from the 12th to the 15th Centuries   Jean Blacker    21 The German Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth   Joshua Byron Smith    22 The Old Icelandic “Brut”   Hélène Tétrel    23 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Ireland   Joshua Byron Smith    24 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Work in Italy   Fabrizio De Falco    25 Geoffrey of Monmouth in Portugal and Galicia   Santiago Gutiérrez García    26 The Scottish Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth   Victoria Shirley    27 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Wales   Ben Guy    Bibliography  Index","brand":"Brill","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51535923839319,"sku":"9789004405288","price":198.4,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/a-companion-to-geoffrey-of-monmouth-9789004405288","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}