Includes bibliographical references (pages [105]-110) and index.
Geoffrey of Monmouth and his work -- Historia regum Britanniae and its sources -- Geoffrey's models : thinking about history in medieval Wales and Ireland -- Geoffrey's Welsh inheritance : the red dragon and the promise of sovereignty -- Britain and Rome -- Magnus Maximus and the colonization of Brittany -- The Arthurian section of Historia regum Britanniae -- Merlin, Prophetiae Merlini and Vita Merlini -- Welsh tradition and Geoffrey's legacy