Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth

Georgia Henley, Ph.D. (2017), Harvard University, is an assistant professor of English at Saint Anselm College and senior fellow in the Andrew W.Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School. She has published articles in The Journal of Medieval Latin and Arthurian Literature and has co-edited Gerald of Wales: New Perspectives on a Medieval Writer and Critic (University of Wales Press, 2018) and The Chronicles of Medieval Wales and the March: New Contexts, Studies and Texts (Brepols, 2020). Joshua Byron Smith, Ph.D. (2011), Northwestern University, is an associate professor of English at the University of Arkansas, where he is also the director of the Medieval and Renaissance Studies program. He is the author of Walter Map and the Matter of Britain (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2017), and is a senior fellow in Andrew W. Mellon Society of Fellows in Critical Bibliography at the Rare Book School.

"Georgia Henley and Joshua Byron Smith’s Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth presents a very welcome addition to scholarship on a significant figure in Insular, and wider European, literature and history. The collection brings together both longstanding and new scholarship on Geoffrey’s work, situated in medieval multilingual and cross-border contexts, highlighting, alongside established lines of enquiry, important new areas in which I hope we will continue to see future developments. [...] the Companion encompasses a universe of scholarship, and [...] presents a rich resource. A comprehensive state of the field of immense value to a graduate, and a sophisticated undergraduate, student audience, it is also essential reading for scholars engaged with advanced work on Geoffrey of Monmouth and his legacy, which will leave you full of ideas of what we might do with Geoffrey next." Victoria Flood, in The Medieval Review, 22.06.18. See the full reviewhere.

• ContentsA Note on TranslationsList of FiguresAbbreviationsContributorsIntroduction and BiographyJoshua Byron SmithPart 1: Sources1 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Welsh SourcesBen Guy2 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Classical and Biblical InheritancePaul Russell3 Geoffrey of Monmouth and the English PastRebecca Thomas4 Riddling Words: the Prophetiae MerliniMaud Burnett McInerneyPart 2: Contemporary Contexts5 Early Manuscript DisseminationJaakko Tahkokallio6 Early Reactions to Geoffrey’s WorkSimon Meecham-Jones7 The Latin Reception of the De gestis BritonumSiân Echard8 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum and Twelfth-Century RomanceFrançoise Le Saux9 The Most Excellent Princes: Geoffrey of Monmouth and Medieval Welsh Historical WritingOwain Wyn Jones10 Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Conventions of History Writing in Early 12th-Century EnglandGeorgia HenleyPart 3: Approaches11 Colonial Preoccupations in Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis BritonumMichael Faletra12 Geoffrey and Gender: the Works of Geoffrey of Monmouth as Medieval “Feminism”Fiona Tolhurst13 Geoffrey of Monmouth and RaceCoral Lumbley14 Religion and the Church in Geoffrey of MonmouthBarry LewisPart 4: Reception15 Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Byzantine ReceptionThomas H. Crofts16 The De gestis Britonum in CastilePaloma Gracia17 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Crown of AragonNahir I. Otaño Gracia18 The Middle Dutch Reception of Geoffrey of MonmouthDavid F. Johnson19 The English Reception of Geoffrey of MonmouthElizabeth Bryan20 The Anglo-Norman and Continental French Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Corpus from the 12th to the 15th CenturiesJean Blacker21 The German Reception of Geoffrey of MonmouthJoshua Byron Smith22 The Old Icelandic “Brut”Hélène Tétrel23 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in IrelandJoshua Byron Smith24 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Work in ItalyFabrizio De Falco25 Geoffrey of Monmouth in Portugal and GaliciaSantiago Gutiérrez García26 The Scottish Reception of Geoffrey of MonmouthVictoria Shirley27 The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in WalesBen GuyBibliographyIndex