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 …
@holland_tom So it is about definitions! ;) They have to be writing about the Anglo-Saxons & be pro-Anglo-Saxon...! >
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@holland_tom > But Medieval English history not so neat ;) See the most popular vernacular history, the 15thC Middle English Brut: runs > -
@holland_tom > Brutus & daughters of Diocletian through to near contemporary 14/15thC history & was 'standard version' of history in 15thC -
@holland_tom (tbh another good contender for a truly great Medieval English historian is the L13thC original drafter of the Brut chronicle > -
@holland_tom > who created original of this standard version of history in Anglo-Norman, prob writing at Barlings in Lincolnshire ;) )
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