A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-40528-8
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 22, 578 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1002 g

Reihe: Brill's Companions to European History

A 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 Garci´a, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Smith, Joshua Byron

Henley, Georgia

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Vor- und Frühgeschichte, prähistorische Archäologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Contents

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

Über Autor(innen)

Georgia Henley, Ph.D. (2017), Harvard University, is an assistant professor of English at Saint Anselm College and senior fellow in the Andrew W.Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School. She has published articles in The Journal of Medieval Latin and Arthurian Literature and has co-edited Gerald of Wales: New Perspectives on a Medieval Writer and Critic (University of Wales Press, 2018) and The Chronicles of Medieval Wales and the March: New Contexts, Studies and Texts (Brepols, 2020).


Joshua Byron Smith, Ph.D. (2011), Northwestern University, is an associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas, where he is also the director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program. He is the author of Walter Map and the Matter of Britain (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), and is a senior fellow in Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School.