Historia Regum Britanniae
Geoffrey of Monmouth's "History of the Kings of Britain", the book that gave the world King Arthur as a chronicle fact.
Core Characteristics
- Completed around 1136, purporting to translate an ancient British book no one has found.
- Carries Britain from Brutus of Troy through Lear and Cymbeline to the Saxons.
- Its Arthur chapters invented the Arthur of the chroniclers — the conqueror of Europe — and launched the whole Arthurian tradition.
Related Concepts & Sources
Camelot, Le Morte d'Arthur, Celtic