The Reception of Geoffrey of Monmouth in Medieval and Early Modern Britain

Sponsoring Organization(s)

Special Session

Organizer Name

Victoria Shirley

Organizer Affiliation

Cardiff Univ.

Presider Name

Victoria Shirley

Paper Title 1

Revisitng the Political Allegiances of Geoffrey's History: Questions of Reception, Patronage, and Purpose

Presenter 1 Name

Georgia Henley

Presenter 1 Affiliation

Harvard Univ.

Paper Title 2

Relaying the Foundation of Britain in Fourteenth-Century Wales

Presenter 2 Name

Timothy J. Nelson

Presenter 2 Affiliation

Univ. of Arkansas-Fayetteville

Paper Title 3

Arthurian Revisions: Hector Boece's Scotorum historia and Geoffrey of Monmouth

Presenter 3 Name

Elizabeth Hanna

Presenter 3 Affiliation

Univ. of St. Andrews

Paper Title 4

Afterlives of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Prophetic Material

Presenter 4 Name

Caroline D. Eckhardt

Presenter 4 Affiliation

Pennsylvania State Univ.

Start Date

15-5-2016 8:30 AM

Session Location

Fetzer 2020

Description

This panel will bring together scholars working on the wider reception history of the Historia regum Britaniae in medieval and early modern Britain, with the hope of including papers on texts from across England, Scotland, and Wales. Papers on the ideological and political use of the Historia, as well as the manuscript context of the chronicles within the Galfridian tradition, will be highly encouraged. The selected papers will demonstrate the various uses of Geoffrey's Historia regum Britanniae throughout history, and will encourage a dialogue between historians, literary scholars, and book historians concerning the afterlife of 'one of the most influential books ever written' (Tatlock, 1950).

V E Shirley (29/09/2015)