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Died 1155
Notable Works “Historia regum Britanniae”
Subjects Of Study Arthurian legend • King Arthur • Merlin
Lawamon
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Thomas Babington Macaulay, detail of an oil painting by J. Partridge, 1840; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.
Thomas Babington Macaulay, Baron Macaulay
English politician and author
Robert Mannyng
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Original drawing by Aubrey Beardsley for an 1893–94 edition of Le Morte Darthur by Sir Thomas Malory.
Thomas Malory
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William Camden, oil painting by or after Marcus Gheeraerts the Younger; in the National Portrait Gallery, London
William Camden
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Matthew Paris
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Arnold Fitzthedmar
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Florence Of Worcester
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Roger Of Hoveden
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John Bourchier, 2nd Baron Berners
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T. H. White
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Holinshed, Raphael: Chronicles of England, Scotlande, and Irelande
Raphael Holinshed
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William Of Newburgh
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John Capgrave
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Henry Knighton
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Examine John Stow's systematic description of 16th-century London in his work A Survey of London
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Simeon Of Durham
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Peter Langtoft
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Robert Of Gloucester
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Thomas Hearne
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