不列颠诸王史

《不列颠诸王史》（拉丁语：Historia regum Britanniae；英语：The History of the Kings of Britain；原名De gestis Britonum；英语：On the Deeds of the Britons）是蒙茅斯的杰弗里在1136年左右创作的一本历史书，以年代先后顺序记载了两千年里出现的不列颠诸王的生平。它是不列颠传说的主要源头之一。

不列颠诸王史
不列颠诸王记
15世纪绘制的插图，沃蒂根和安布罗休斯·奥理安观看二龙相斗
作者	蒙茅斯的杰弗里
献给	第一代格洛斯特伯爵罗伯特和第一代伍斯特伯爵瓦勒兰·德·博蒙特
语言	拉丁语
时间	约1136年
类型	野史
主题	不列颠诸王
来源	蒙茅斯的杰弗里宣传翻译自一本古书

直到16世纪，历史学家还把它当做信史^[1]，但此书内容多为杜撰，只是作为一本文学作品颇有价值。李尔王的故事最早见于本书，而亚瑟王传奇的流行和此书不无关系。

来源

蒙茅斯的杰弗里宣称此书译自一部古老的文献，这部文献则是牛津的沃尔特给他的^[2][3][4]，但现代历史学家并不认为这是事实^[2][5][6]。此书可能的来源包括吉尔达斯的《不列颠的毁灭》（De Excidio et Conquestu Britanniae，6世纪） 、比德的《英吉利教会史》（8世纪）、《不列颠人的历史》（9世纪，作者可能是内尼厄斯）、《威尔士编年史》（10世纪，作者不明）、塔利埃辛的诗和威尔士传说《基尔夫与奥尔温》（11-12世纪）^[2]。

参考文献

1. 'The New Cambridge Modern history, vol. 1 1957:56.
2. Thorpe (1966: 14–19)
3. Wright, Neil. The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. Woodbridge, England: Boydell and Brewer. 1984: xvii. ISBN 978-0-85991-641-7.
4. Lang, Andrew. History Of English Literature - From Beowulf to Swinburne. Vincent Press. : 45. OCLC 220536211. He says that he has had the advantage of using a book in the Breton tongue which Walter, Archdeacon of Oxford, brought out of Brittany; this book he translates into Latin.
5. Wright, Neil. The Historia Regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth. Woodbridge, England: Boydell and Brewer. 1984: xvii–xviii. ISBN 978-0-85991-641-7. This fusion of heterogeneous sources, which is apparent almost everywhere in the Historia, completely dispels the fiction that the work is no more than a translation of a single Breton (or Welsh) book
6. "...the Historia does not bear scrutiny as an authentic history and no scholar today would regard it as such.": Wright (1984: xxviii)

• Geoffrey of Monmouth. The history of the kings of Britain: an edition and translation of De gestis Britonum (Historia regum Britanniae). Arthurian studies 69. Michael D. Reeve (ed.), Neil Wright (trans.). Woodbridge, Suffolk: Boydell Press. 2007. ISBN 978-1-84383-206-5.
• 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. ISBN 0-19-811588-1
• 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)

外部连接

• 维基文库中的文献全文：History of the Kings of Britain
• 维基共享资源上的相关多媒体资源：Historia Regum Britanniae
• 原文（页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆），Google Books
• 拉丁原文（页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆），Google Books
• Historia regum Britanniae（页面存档备份，存于互联网档案馆），Cambridge Digital Library
• LibriVox中的公有领域有声书《History of the Kings of Britain》