Not only did he write in England, but 200+ copies survive (many more than of Bede's!) & was vastly influential on English historiography ;)
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@caitlinrgreen And less tedious than#Bede, but that is not difficult to achieve. -
@BonyardB Hah! Bede gets a lot of praise, but as David Dumville pointed out, partly because he's writing about near-contemporary history! -
@BonyardB For periods a couple of centuries prior, he's just as dubious as 'Nennius'/the Historia Brittonum etc!
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@caitlinrgreen Geoffrey of Monmouth was very much not English! -
@holland_tom But he wrote in England & is v v influential re: English historiography... He's def not pro-English, but does that matter?! -
@caitlinrgreen On that basis, you might as well define Marx as English -
@holland_tom Hmm *looks sceptically at you* But Geoffrey's version of history--Brutus, Arthur etc--rapidly became part of the definitive > -
@holland_tom > medieval ver of 'our island story' for hundreds of yrs, incorporated into Anglo-Norman+Middle English Bruts, & was used by > -
@holland_tom > English rulers to justify ambitions in L12/E13thC & 16thC etc... & when challenged by Polydore V in 16thC it was vigorously > -
@holland_tom >defended by English writers, incl John Dee who accused Polydore of burning cartload of 'proofs' of Geoffrey's vers of history! -
@caitlinrgreen There's good reason, though, why it's the Matter of Britain, not of England. Geoffrey's last line laments Æthelstan's reign. - 5 more replies
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