Georgia Henley is an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Anselm College, a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, and an Associate of the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

A thoroughly intelligent work, it fills a significant gap in the historiography of medieval Wales, and in large measure creates a place in that of medieval England. ...this is an important volume, which deserves a wide audience.

• Introduction 1: Rewriting Geoffrey of Monmouth 2: Royal Aspirations 3: Ancestral Memory 4: Romance and Identity 5: Elegies for Welsh Princes Conclusion

Georgia Henley is an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Anselm College, a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, and an Associate of the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

A thoroughly intelligent work, it fills a significant gap in the historiography of medieval Wales, and in large measure creates a place in that of medieval England. ...this is an important volume, which deserves a wide audience.

• Introduction 1: Rewriting Geoffrey of Monmouth 2: Royal Aspirations 3: Ancestral Memory 4: Romance and Identity 5: Elegies for Welsh Princes Conclusion

Georgia Henley is an Assistant Professor of English at Saint Anselm College, a Senior Fellow in the Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography, and an Associate of the Department of Celtic Languages and Literatures at Harvard University.

A thoroughly intelligent work, it fills a significant gap in the historiography of medieval Wales, and in large measure creates a place in that of medieval England. ...this is an important volume, which deserves a wide audience.

• Introduction 1: Rewriting Geoffrey of Monmouth 2: Royal Aspirations 3: Ancestral Memory 4: Romance and Identity 5: Elegies for Welsh Princes Conclusion