For detailed discussions of the sources for Geoffrey's biography, see John Edward Lloyd, "Geoffrey of Monmouth," in English Historical Review 57 (1942): 460-68 J.S.P. For a thorough discussion of HRB's place in the genre of medieval romance, see Geraldine Heng's Empire of Magic: Medieval Romance and the Politics of Cultural Fantasy (New York: Columbia University Press, 2003), Chapter 1: "Cannibalism, the First Crusade, and the Genesis of Medieval Romance." See the Prologue to William of Newburgh's Historia Rerum Anglicarum and the story of Melerius the soothsayer in Chapter 5 of Gerald of Wales' Itinerary through Wales. Dean's Introduction to Poems of Political Prophecy, originally published in Medieval English Political Writings (Kalamazoo: Western Michigan University for TEAMS, 1996)
For an excellent discussion of the role Latin prophecy, particularly PM, plays in the development of political discussions in Middle English, see James M.
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