The History of the Kings of Britain: An Edition and Translation of the de Gestis Britonum [Historia Regum Britanniae] - Hardcover

Text and translation of key Arthurian text - a major source for scholars.

Written in the 1130s, Geoffrey's imaginative history of the Britons from Brutus to Cadwallader, the first work to recount the woes of Lear and the glittering career of Arthur, rapidly became a bestseller in the British Isles and Francophone Europe, with over 200 manuscripts surviving. Yet no critical edition of the main...