"Reeve's new text, a collation of 11 of the most important manuscripts, is probably the best we've had since Geoffrey put his pen down, and it makes much previous scholarship redundant. For students and scholars wanting to read Geoffrey in the original Latin, or even just looking for a good translation of the book, Michael Reeve's and Neil Wright's edition and translation is the best available edition of this influential text." "The Historia Regum Britanniae is a text of major importance for any folklorist interested in medieval folklore, national epics, and the invention of tradition. It will provide a firm textual basis for the next generation of scholarly research on Geoffrey of Monmouth and on twelfth-century historiography." "This is a handsome volume and a major contribution to twelfth-century British studies. "This new critical edition is a major advance in scholarship and will undoubtedly become the standard text for the foreseeable future." Fresh and engaging, and can be enjoyed purely as mythical history." "A fabulous British history - giants and all - deserves its former bestseller status. It is wonderful to have a reliable Latin edition and translation of this important work priced for the library of the individual scholar and student." Neil Wright's translation is graceful and precise.
"This fine edition will serve to make Geoffrey's Latin much more accessible and no doubt spur further research. N° de ref."This is surely going to be the all-purpose and long-awaited standard critical edition which all medievalists will need to read and cite when dealing with what is one of the foundational texts of the Latin Middle Ages." MICHAEL REEVE is 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. A comprehensive introduction discusses the status of variant versions, the shape of the main tradition, and many questions of editorial principle critical notes analyse some problems raised by the transmitted text and there is a full index of names. This new text, for which 14 manuscripts have been collated in full, rests on a survey of the entire tradition it is accompanied by a facing English translation, prepared especially for this volume. Yet no critical edition of the main version has appeared since 1929. 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. A continuación, le mostramos una lista de copias similares. Lamentablemente este ejemplar en específico ya no está disponible.
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