Well, depends on what mean by greatest & by English, but Geoffrey of Monmouth's 12thC HRB surely most influential!https://twitter.com/holland_tom/status/675971168290152448 …
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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 Ooh Geoffrey! Ace storyteller. Bit brutal to his facts in order to make them fit the stories tho. -
@STORI3D_PAST Well, facts are optional when you e got a really good tale to tell...! And Bede is pretty dubious on non-recentish history! -
@caitlinrgreen Very true re both! Esp Bede, "Hadrian's stone wall built in mid-5th C after Roman rule ended"#facepalm.
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