...), to demonstrate the complexity of marital practices and their links to peace and war. Literary works of the age, notably Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae , offer further cultural perspectives on the nature of political marriages. Whereas short-term tactical considerations meant that marriages were...

..., and The Orlando Trilogy. Helen Cooper holds the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at Cam- bridge University. Her most recent book is The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare...

..., and The Orlando Trilogy. Helen Cooper holds the Chair of Medieval and Renaissance English Literature at Cam- bridge University. Her most recent book is The English Romance in Time: Transforming Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare...

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... Motifs from Geoffrey of Monmouth to the Death of Shakespeare, Pastoral: Medieval into Renaissance, and The Structure of the Canterbury Tales. Natalie Zemon Davis’s books include The Return of Martin Guerre, Fiction in the Archives, Society...

.... Richmond Perhaps I ought to start with Coxe, said Stefan, because everything starts with him. I agreed and urged him to say what it was about Monmouth that pro- duced so strange a trio as Geoffrey, Thomas, and Leonard. Stefan had no expla- nation. He also objected to the association of mythmaking...