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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Geoffrey of Monmouth"”.
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Invention? Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Nature of De Gestis Britonum
Geoffrey of Monmouth has long been credited with inventing the bulk of British history, and more especially the Arthurian legend, through his composition of De Gestis Britonum, also known as Historia Regum Britonum. Because so little of the text can be corroborated by other sources, Geoffrey is, …
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Hero or Tyrant: Images of Julius Caesar in Selected Works from Vergil to Bruni
… figure in Roman history, but he is also one of the most difficult to understand. Since his assassination, Caesar has played an important role in discussions of political power, imperial government, tyranny, and tyrannicide. While there have been literary treatments of Caesar from William …
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Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569)
… analyzes the iconography and visual sources of the title page to the first volume of <em>A chronicle at large and meere history of the affayres of Englande </em>(1569) by the Tudor author Richard Grafton. Representing the visual synthesis of several distinct but interrelated currents that …
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Spenser's Twin Pillars of the Kingdom: Arthur, Elizabeth, and the Medieval Tradition of Translatio Studii et Imperii
… as the governing metaphor and principal method of medieval authors to explain changes in political power and romanticize the past. In this project, I examine medieval and early-modern conceptions of political power in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and the medieval Arthuriana. Ultimately, I …
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Welsh Manipulations of the Matter of Britain
<p>"Welsh Manipulations of the Matter of Britain" examines the textual relationships between Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae and the Welsh Brut y Brenhinedd in the Cotton Cleopatra manuscript. This thesis initially provides an overview of the existing scholarship surrounding the …
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Picture-books, Politics & Pedagogy: Illustrating Histories for a Young Reader, 1338-40 (British Library, Egerton MS 3028)
… poems: the Roman de Brut (Wace’s translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain) and two Fierabras narratives, set in the age of Charlemagne. The former is continued to the years 1338-40 and its conclusion is partisan, celebrating Edward II and the Despensers and praying …
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Julius Caesar, Fortune, and Latin Historiography in Twelfth-Century England
… English historians – Orderic Vitalis, William of Malmesbury, Henry of Huntingdon, and Robert of Lewes (as probable author of the Gesta Stephani) – believed that they had identified a schema that could determine who and what was culpable for engendering events that had been unexpected or whose …