Arthurian legends and the influence of French prose romance

Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph

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Arthurian legends and the influence of French prose romance

Arthurian romancesSourcesMedieval LiteratureFrench influencesLegendsManuscriptsFacsimilesMerlin (Legendary character)Tristan (Legendary character)Lancelot (Legendary character)GrailHistory

Collection of 52 manuscripts (12th-16th c.) in the British Library, London. The collection, which emphasizes the prose romance tradition, includes 20 variant manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, 26 manuscripts of the French prose tradition of Chrétien de Troyes and Robert de Boron, and concludes with the Winchester manuscript of Malory's Morte D'Arthur.

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