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The Historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth: Dissemination and reception in the Later Middle Ages
Geoffrey (of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph)
Julia C. Crick
出版
D.S. Brewer
, 1985
主題
History / Europe / Medieval
ISBN
0859912159
9780859912150
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=SPjLzAEACAAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
註釋
Following her vital cataloguing of the surviving 200+ manuscripts of the
Historia Regum Britannie
in Volume III, Julia Crick has been able in Volume IV to present the information which the manuscripts contain both about the textual development of Geoffrey's History and about its circulation and audience.
Crick begins by exploring the evidence for grouping the manuscripts. External evidence such as associated texts found frequently with the
Historia
is compared with the internal evidence of textual disruption, the notorious dedications, rubrication and trial passages collated from each manuscript. This information forms the basis for an account of the chronology and geography of the circulation of the work as a whole, which in turn sheds light on the audience of the
Historia
, their taste in reading, and their status.
JULIA CRICK
is a Research Fellow at Gonville and Caius College, Cambridge. Arthurian Boydell & Brewer have become the Arthurian publishers par excellence, not simply for their excellent secondary material on the once and future king, but for their commitment to the publication of a largely Cambridge-based inquiry into the primeval sources of the Arthurian story. ENGLISH STUDIES [J.D. Burnley]
Following the cataloguing of the 200 surviving manuscripts of Geoffrey's
Historia
Julia Crick sets out to assess what these reveal about the textual development of the work and about its circulation and audience. Her meticulous and scholarly approach prises out information which will prove invaluable to all students of the 12th century.