Medievalists.net » History of the Kings of Britain http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Sun, 06 Dec 2015 23:06:49 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Writing conquest: traditions of Anglo-Saxon invasion and resistance in the twelfth century http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/02/writing-conquest-traditions-anglo-saxon-invasion-resistance-twelfth-century/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/02/writing-conquest-traditions-anglo-saxon-invasion-resistance-twelfth-century/#comments Mon, 03 Mar 2014 00:17:38 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=47978 Writing Conquest examines the ways in which Latin, Old English, and Middle English twelfth-century historical and pseudo-historical texts remembered and reconstructed three formative moments of Anglo-Saxon invasion and resistance...

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/03/02/writing-conquest-traditions-anglo-saxon-invasion-resistance-twelfth-century/feed/ 0 The Public and Private Boundaries of Motherhood: Queen Igraine in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia and Laȝamon’s Brut’ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/the-public-and-private-boundaries-of-motherhood-queen-igraine-in-geoffrey-of-monmouths-historia-and-la%c8%9damons-brut/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/the-public-and-private-boundaries-of-motherhood-queen-igraine-in-geoffrey-of-monmouths-historia-and-la%c8%9damons-brut/#comments Sat, 11 Jan 2014 21:07:00 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46562 In literary criticism, awareness of transmission of tales between British and continental literature tends to encourage a view of some Arthurian narratives as more similar in tone, style, and language than they in fact are.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/11/the-public-and-private-boundaries-of-motherhood-queen-igraine-in-geoffrey-of-monmouths-historia-and-la%c8%9damons-brut/feed/ 0 Mapping Scottish Identity in the Roman de Fergus http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/24/mapping-scottish-identity-in-the-roman-de-fergus/ http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/24/mapping-scottish-identity-in-the-roman-de-fergus/#comments Wed, 24 Jul 2013 22:40:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=42337 In the Roman de Fergus, a thirteenth-century verse romance in Old French, Guillaume le Clerc considers the consequences of Arthur’s assimilationist expansionism with a more focused attention to cultural difference and personal identity, again centered on the experience of a knight from Galloway, the eponymous

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2013/07/24/mapping-scottish-identity-in-the-roman-de-fergus/feed/ 0 Aspects of the English royal succession, 1066-1199: the death of the king http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/28/aspects-of-the-english-royal-succession-1066-1199-the-death-of-the-king/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/28/aspects-of-the-english-royal-succession-1066-1199-the-death-of-the-king/#comments Sat, 29 Dec 2012 02:53:50 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=38380 The death of any ruler in the twelfth century, even if it were expected, caused a considerable amount of shock and disquiet amongst those who were left behind.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/12/28/aspects-of-the-english-royal-succession-1066-1199-the-death-of-the-king/feed/ 0 The Arthur of the chronicles http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/30/the-arthur-of-the-chronicles/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/30/the-arthur-of-the-chronicles/#comments Sun, 30 Sep 2012 13:39:58 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=36082 Even if we cannot accept the claim made by Geoffrey in his introduction that his putative source was ‘attractively composed to form a consecutive andorderly narrative’, he certainly made extensive use ofWelsh genealogies andking-lists.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/09/30/the-arthur-of-the-chronicles/feed/ 0 Many Motives: Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Reasons For His Falsification of History http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/19/many-motives-geoffrey-of-monmouth-and-the-reasons-for-his-falsification-of-history/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/19/many-motives-geoffrey-of-monmouth-and-the-reasons-for-his-falsification-of-history/#comments Sun, 19 Aug 2012 23:07:16 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34949 It is clear to most modern historians who have studied Geoffrey’s Historia that its contents bear little to no resemblance to real events. Even in Geoffrey’s own lifetime many historians condemned the work.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/19/many-motives-geoffrey-of-monmouth-and-the-reasons-for-his-falsification-of-history/feed/ 0 “Hic Facet Arthurus, Rex Quondam, Rexque Futurus:” The Analysis of Original Medieval Sources in the Search for the Historica King Arthur http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/24/hic-facet-arthurus-rex-quondam-rexque-futurus-the-analysis-of-original-medieval-sources-in-the-search-for-the-historica-king-arthur/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/24/hic-facet-arthurus-rex-quondam-rexque-futurus-the-analysis-of-original-medieval-sources-in-the-search-for-the-historica-king-arthur/#comments Wed, 25 Apr 2012 00:17:52 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=31292 The heroic tales of the legendary King Arthur have survived throughout many centuries. Modern society has learned of this celebrated figure through oral and literary tradition, such as the works of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s pseudo-history Historia Regum Britanniae, Sir Thomas Malory’s romantic epic Le Morte d’Arthur and medieval Arthurian poetry.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/24/hic-facet-arthurus-rex-quondam-rexque-futurus-the-analysis-of-original-medieval-sources-in-the-search-for-the-historica-king-arthur/feed/ 0 Elements of the Arthurian Tradition in Harry Potter http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/03/elements-of-the-arthurian-tradition-in-harry-potter/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/03/elements-of-the-arthurian-tradition-in-harry-potter/#comments Wed, 04 Apr 2012 01:18:57 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=30741 Both heroes exist to save their people from doom. According to Geoffrey of Monmouth, who authored Historia Regum Britanniae (History of the Kings of Britain) in 1136, Arthur ‘led his troops against the Saxons, who were still making trouble in various parts of the country, and after various vicissitudes he defeated them on a hill outside Bath, wielding a wonderful sword called Caliburn’1 (Ashe, ‘Quest’).

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/04/03/elements-of-the-arthurian-tradition-in-harry-potter/feed/ 0 Women Characters in Arthurian Literature http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/16/women-characters-in-arthurian-literature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2011/10/16/women-characters-in-arthurian-literature/#comments Sun, 16 Oct 2011 23:57:12 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=26406 The main issue, then, is how Arthurian women characters have been portrayed throughout the centuries and the reasons for those particular ways of portrayal.

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