![]() ![]() The History of the Kings of Britain ( Historia regum Britanniae) was likely completed around 1138 during a tumultuous period of civil war in England. Geoffrey claimed that the ancient text from which he gleaned his translations was given to him by a man he had befriended at the university, an archdeacon of Oxford. ![]() Considered anywhere from a genuine but flawed historian to a rhetorical historian to a “pseudohistorian,” the veracity of Geoffrey’s historical writing was, to him, unquestionable (“Geoffrey of Monmouth ”). His birthplace was in or near Monmouth in Wales, hence his demonym. Geoffrey of Monmouth was born around 1100 and died likely in 1155, though neither date is certain. “The History of the Kings of Britain” by an unknown 15th century artist. ![]()
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