"The 'Imagining History' project is the first large-scale collaborative investigation of the manuscripts of the Middle English Prose Brut chronicle, arguably the most prolificly disemminated secular text of the English Middle Ages. The project explores the cultural capital of the Prose Brut within the larger context of the ubiquitous 'English Brut tradition', which finds its origins in Norman historiography - specifically in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Brittanniae - and shapes much of the late medieval and early modern historical imagination in Britain."