Book contents
- Romance and History
- Series page
- Romance and History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- I Opening perspectives
- II The matter of Rome (and realms to the east): approaches to antiquity
- III The matter of Britain: social and spiritual drives
- Chapter 4 Inescapable history: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain and Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
- Chapter 5 Gottfried, Wolfram, and the Angevins: history, genealogy, and fiction in the Tristan and Parzival romances
- Chapter 6 Fictional history as ideology: functions of the Grail legend from Robert de Boron to the Roman de Perceforest
- Chapter 7 The Prose Brut, Hardyng’s Chronicle, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure: the end of the story
- Chapter 8 Arthur in transition: Malory’s Morte Darthur
- IV The matters of France and Italy: acts of recollection and invention
- V Matters of fabulation and fact: shifting registers
- VI Closing reference points
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
Chapter 4 - Inescapable history: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain and Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
from III - The matter of Britain: social and spiritual drives
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 18 December 2014
- Romance and History
- Series page
- Romance and History
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- I Opening perspectives
- II The matter of Rome (and realms to the east): approaches to antiquity
- III The matter of Britain: social and spiritual drives
- Chapter 4 Inescapable history: Geoffrey of Monmouth’s History of the Kings of Britain and Arthurian romances of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries
- Chapter 5 Gottfried, Wolfram, and the Angevins: history, genealogy, and fiction in the Tristan and Parzival romances
- Chapter 6 Fictional history as ideology: functions of the Grail legend from Robert de Boron to the Roman de Perceforest
- Chapter 7 The Prose Brut, Hardyng’s Chronicle, and the Alliterative Morte Arthure: the end of the story
- Chapter 8 Arthur in transition: Malory’s Morte Darthur
- IV The matters of France and Italy: acts of recollection and invention
- V Matters of fabulation and fact: shifting registers
- VI Closing reference points
- Notes
- Select bibliography
- Index
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- Romance and HistoryImagining Time from the Medieval to the Early Modern Period, pp. 55 - 73Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2015