Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth - Dissemination and Reception in the Later Middle Ages

ENGLISH STUDIES (J.D. Burnley) Following the cataloguing of the 200 surviving manuscripts of Geoffreys HistoriaJulia Crick sets out to assess what these reveal about the textual development of the work and about its circulation and audience. Her meticulous and scholarly approach prises out information which will prove invaluable to all students of the 12th century.

List of contents

Procedure; associated contents; compositions dependent on the "Historia"; disruptions of the Vulgate text; dedications; rubrics and book-divisions; test-collations; towards a textual history; circulation and readership; reception. Appendices: Summary table of results; test collations of paragraphs 1, 2, 100 and 208; maps; works associated with the "Historia".

Product details

• Authors: Julia Crick, Julia C. Crick, Geoffrey
• Publisher: D. S. Brewer
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.1991
• No. of pages: 368
• Dimensions: 161 mm x 239 mm x 26 mm
• Weight: 718 g
• Series: Historia Regum Britannie of Ge
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies