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In Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia Regum Britanniae, King Arthur’s preeminence as the greatest king of the Britons paradoxically depends on his challenge to the traditional understanding of British peoplehood as defined by precise boundaries of geography and ethnic identity. His efforts to extend Britishness are resisted by a desire for expression of identity that depends on exclusion.
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Wenthe, M. (2008). Beyond British Boundaries in the Historia Regum Britanniae. In: Cohen, J.J. (eds) Cultural Diversity in the British Middle Ages. The New Middle Ages. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9780230614123_6
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