Reviews for Gesta Regum Anglorum The History of the English Kings

The average rating for Gesta Regum Anglorum The History of the English Kings based on 2 reviews is 5 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2010-03-16 00:00:00 Mark Tyers William of Malmesbury is the William of Malmesbury of history. I know of no higher complement.

Review # 2 was written on 2018-04-14 00:00:00 Charles Guy Like Dan Yack, this was a madcap tale, although far less over-the-top Frenchy/like a Decemberists song, and more about the tragically funny fate of noted accidental American legend John Sutter who curses out what gold does to a man, Treasure of the Sierra Madre-style. Of course, it's a wildly fictionalized picaresque, but you'll likely enjoy it in the same way you enjoyed (if you did) Mason & Dixon, The Public Burning, or any other thoroughly overboard, comic exploitation of historical personages. And the fact that I'm comparing this to high-postmodern novels written several decades later should tell you how far ahead of his time Cendrars was.