New Translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth\'s Latin History - the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of Arthur.
MICHAEL REEVEis Kennedy Professor of Latin Emeritus at the Faculty of Classics, University of Cambridge
Dr NEIL WRIGHT is a Senior Language Teaching Officer at the Faculty of History, University of Cambridge..
It also contains a full introduction and notes.
Here, an authoritative version of the text is presented with a facing translation, prepared especially for the volume.
It rapidly became a bestseller in the British Isles and Francophone Europe, with over 200 manuscripts surviving.
This imaginative History of the Britons, written in the twelfth century, is the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of Arthur.
New Translation of Geoffrey of Monmouth\'s Latin History - the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of Arthur