A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmounth

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	Contents
	Acknowledgements
	A Note on Translations
	Figures
	Abbreviations
	Notes on Contributors
	Introduction and Biography
	Part 1 Sources
	Chapter 1 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Welsh Sources
	Chapter 2 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Classical and Biblical Inheritance
	Chapter 3 Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English Past
	Chapter 4 Riddling Words: the Prophetiae Merlini
	Part 2 Contemporary Contexts
	Chapter 5 Early Manuscript Dissemination
	Chapter 6 Early Reactions to Geoffrey’s Work
	Chapter 7 The Latin Reception of the De gestis Britonum
	Chapter 8 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum and Twelfth-Century Romance
	Chapter 9 The Most Excellent Princes: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Medieval Welsh Historical Writing
	Chapter 10 Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Conventions of History Writing in Early 12th-Century England
	Part 3 Approaches
	Chapter 11 Colonial Preoccupations in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum
	Chapter 12 Geoffrey and Gender: the Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth as Medieval “Feminism”
	Chapter 13 Geoffrey of Monmouth and Race
	Chapter 14 Religion and the Church in Geoffrey of Monmouth
	Part 4 Reception
	Introduction to Part 4 The Medieval Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth
	Chapter 15 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Byzantine Reception
	Chapter 16 The De gestis Britonum in Castile
	Chapter 17 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Crown of Aragon
	Chapter 18 The Middle Dutch Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth
	Chapter 19 The English Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth
	Chapter 20 The Anglo-Norman and Continental French Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Corpus from the 12th to the 15th Centuries
	Chapter 21 The German Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth
	Chapter 22 The Old Icelandic “Brut”
	Chapter 23 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Ireland
	Chapter 24 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Work in Italy
	Chapter 25 Geoffrey of Monmouth in Portugal and Galicia
	Chapter 26 The Scottish Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth
	Chapter 27 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Wales
	Bibliography
	Manuscripts
	General Index