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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Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@caitlinrgreen Geoffrey of Monmouth was very much not English!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @holland_tom
@holland_tom But he wrote in England & is v v influential re: English historiography... He's def not pro-English, but does that matter?!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@caitlinrgreen On that basis, you might as well define Marx as English1 reply 0 retweets 1 like -
Replying to @holland_tom
@holland_tom Hmm *looks sceptically at you* But Geoffrey's version of history--Brutus, Arthur etc--rapidly became part of the definitive >1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@holland_tom > medieval ver of 'our island story' for hundreds of yrs, incorporated into Anglo-Norman+Middle English Bruts, & was used by >2 replies 0 retweets 0 likes -
Replying to @caitlinrgreen
@caitlinrgreen Hmmm - I think that, unless you are saying English & British are synonymous, you're a on a slightly sticky wicket here!1 reply 0 retweets 0 likes
@holland_tom No, don't think so---Arthurian history was clearly adopted by English rulers as legitimisation for themselves in 12th-16thC!
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