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    Geoffrey de Monmouth fue un clérigo galés cuya obra moldeó significativamente la historiografía británica y la perdurable popularidad de los relatos del Rey Arturo. Es reconocido principalmente por su crónica, Historia Regum Britanniae, que entrelaza narrativas históricas y mitos fundacionales. Aunque gran parte de su producción se considera pseudohistoria, sus escritos sentaron las bases para innumerables interpretaciones literarias posteriores del ciclo artúrico. Las contribuciones literarias de Geoffrey son, por tanto, fundamentales en la transmisión y evolución de leyendas y el folclore británico.

    The history of the Kings of Britain

    • The history of the Kings of Britain

      • 384 páginas
      • 14 horas de lectura

      Completed in 1136, The History of the Kings of Britain traces the story of the realm from its supposed foundation by Brutus to the coming of the Saxons some two thousand years later. Vividly portraying legendary and semi-legendary figures such as Lear, Cymbeline, Merlin the magician and the most famous of all British heroes, King Arthur, it is as much myth as it is history and its veracity was questioned by other medieval writers. But Geoffrey of Monmouth's powerful evocation of illustrious men and deeds captured the imagination of subsequent generations, and his influence can be traced through the works of Malory, Shakespeare, Dryden and Tennyson.

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