The Matter of Britain and the Matter of England

by R.R. Davies

This is a lecture delivered by the author before the University of Oxford on 29 February 1996. He considers the way in which an authoritative and monopolistic English version of Britain's past came to be established in the 12th century. He shows that it was a patriotic, regnal, and political interpretation and one which treated the pre-English history of Britain, in spite of the best efforts of Geoffrey of Monmouth, as simply a curtain-raiser to the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199513775
• ISBN13: 9780199513772
• Release Date: September 1996
• Publisher: Not Avail
• Length: 28 Pages