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Arthurian literature is a popular field, but most of the published work focuses on the vernacular tradition. This book, uniquely, looks at Latin Arthurian works. Geoffrey of Monmouth is treated at length and this is the first book to put him in a context which includes other Latin histories, monastic chronicles, saints' lives and other Latin prose Arthurian narratives. Like Geoffrey's works, most can be associated with the Angevin court of Henry II and by placing these works against the court background, this book both introduces a new set of texts into the Arthurian canon and suggests a way to understand their place in that tradition. The unfamiliar works are summarized for the reader, and there are extensive quotations, with translations, throughout. The result is a thorough exploration of Latin Arthurian narrative in the foundational period for the Arthurian tradition.

Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Britons --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- History and criticism --- Historiography --- Geoffrey, --- Great Britain --- History --- Intellectual life --- Arthurian romances --- -Britons --- -Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- -Narration (Rhetoric) --- -Latin romances, Medieval and modern --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Brythons --- Celts --- Ethnology --- Romances --- Bibliography --- Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph --- -Arthurian romances --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- History and criticism. --- Historiography. --- -History and criticism --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Latin romances, Medieval and modern --- Geoffrey of Monmouth, --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern - Great Britain - History and criticism --- Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism --- Britons - Historiography --- Arthur --- Geoffrey, - of Monmouth, Bishop of St Asaph, - 1100?-1154 - Historia regum Britanniae --- Great Britain - History - Henry II, 1154-1189 --- Great Britain - Intellectual life - 1066-1485