不列颠诸王史

《不列顛諸王史》（；；原名De gestis Britonum；英語：On the Deeds of the Britons）是蒙茅斯的杰弗里在1136年左右創作的一本歷史書，以年代先後順序記載了兩千年裡出現的不列顛諸王的生平。它是不列顛傳說的主要源頭之一。

直到16世紀，歷史學家還把它當做信史<ref>'The New Cambridge Modern history, vol. 1 1957:56.</ref>，但此書內容多為杜撰，只是作為一本文學作品頗有價值。李爾王的故事最早見於本書，而亞瑟王傳奇的流行和此書不無關係。

來源

蒙茅斯的杰弗里宣稱此書譯自一部古老的文獻，這部文獻則是牛津的沃爾特給他的Thorpe (1966: 14–19)，但現代歷史學家並不認為這是事實"...the Historia does not bear scrutiny as an authentic history and no scholar today would regard it as such.": Wright (1984: xxviii)。此書可能的來源包括吉爾達斯的《不列顛的毀滅》（De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae，6世紀） 、比德的《英吉利教會史》（8世紀）、《不列顛人的歷史》（9世紀，作者可能是内尼厄斯）、《威尔士编年史》（10世紀，作者不明）、塔利埃辛的詩和威爾士傳說《基爾夫與奧爾溫》（11-12世紀）。

參考文獻


 John Jay Parry and Robert Caldwell. Geoffrey of Monmouth in Arthurian Literature in the Middle Ages, Roger S. Loomis (ed.). Clarendon Press: Oxford University. 1959. 
 Brynley F. Roberts, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Welsh Historical Tradition, Nottingham Medieval Studies, 20 (1976), 29-40.
 J. S. P. Tatlock. The Legendary History of Britain: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae and its early vernacular versions. University of California Press. Berkeley. 1950.
 Michael A. Faletra, ed., The History of the Kings of Britain (Broadview Press, 2008)
 N. Wright, ed., The Historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. 1, Bern, Burgerbibliothek, MS. 568 (Cambridge, 1984)
 N. Wright, ed., The historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. 2, The first variant version : a critical edition (Cambridge, 1988)
 J. C. Crick, The historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. 3, A summary catalogue of the manuscripts (Cambridge, 1989)
 J. C. Crick, The historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. 4, Dissemination and reception in the later Middle Ages (Cambridge, 1991)
 J. Hammer, ed., Historia regum Britanniae. A variant version edited from manuscripts (Cambridge, MA, 1951)
 A. Griscom and J. R. Ellis, ed., The Historia regum Britanniæ of Geoffrey of Monmouth with contributions to the study of its place in early British history (London, 1929)
 M. D. Reeve, 'The transmission of the Historia regum Britanniae ', in Journal of Medieval Latin 1 (1991), 73—117
 Edmond Faral, La légende Arthurienne: études et documents, 3 vols. (Paris, 1929)
 R. W. Leckie, The passage of dominion : Geoffrey of Monmouth and the periodization of insular history in the twelfth century'' (Toronto, 1981)

外部連接

 原文，Google Books
 拉丁原文，Google Books
 Historia regum Britanniae，Cambridge Digital Library


Category:1130年代書籍
Category:12世紀不列顛
Category:英國歷史