legend of King Arthur as well as other Welsh legends of the early period of England, and was presented, and often accepted, as actual English history. It was extremely popular, but other contemporary historians, interested in impartiality and truth, were highly critical of Geoffrey. William of Newburgh devotes an extended section of the preface of Historia to discredit Geoffrey, saying at one point "only a person ignorant of ancient history would have any doubt about how shamelessly and impudently he lies in almost everything". The discussion over the historical basis for King Arthur continues to this day. Notes References Further reading Bartlett, Robert. England under the Norman and Angevin Kings 1075–1225, Oxford, 2000, The Cambridge History of English and American Literature Volume I, English, Chapters 5 through 10. Fisher, Matthew. Scribal Authorship and the Writing of History in Medieval England (Ohio State University Press, 2012) Gransden, Antonia. Historical Writing in England: c. 500 to c. 1307 (Psychology Press, 1996) . Graves, Edgar. A Bibliography of English History to 1485, Oxford 1975 Hanning, Robert W. The vision of history in early Britain: from Gildas to Geoffrey of Monmouth (Columbia University Press, 1966). Loades, David, ed. Reader's Guide to British History (2 vol 2003), 1610pp, comprehensive coverage of major topics and historians Partner, Nancy F. Serious Entertainments: The Writing of History in Twelfth-Century England. (University of Chicago Press, 1977). Sharpe, Richard A Handlist of the Latin Writer of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540, Turnhout 1997 Schlatter, Richard, ed. Recent Views on British History: Essays on Historical Writing Since 1966 (1984) Taylor, John. English historical literature in the fourteenth century ( Oxford University Press, 1987). Urbanski, Charity. Writing History for the King: Henry II and the Politics of Vernacular Historiography (Cornell University Press, 2013) See also List of English chronicles Historiography of the United Kingdom Medieval English historians Middle Ages