Description: The first modern edition of a text which shows the suspicion with which Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain was received two decades after it first appeared.
Brief description: John Slevin completed his PhD on the Historical Writing of Alfred of Beverley at the University of Exeter in 2013.
Review Quotes: Delicately draws out the network of interlinking writers and minds that lies behind the construction of Alfred's History. A lot can be learned about the way he uses the work of other writers who were his sources and presumably correspondents, and creates from it a unified narrative. The edition is a skilful exercise in twelfth-century historiography above anything else.-- "Northern History"