Author: LayamonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Layamons Brut, Or Chronicle of Britain
Author: LayamonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 660
Book Description
Layamon's Brut
Author: LayamonPublisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Layamon's Brut is a Middle English poem assembled and remold by the vicar Layamon. The Brut relates the history of Britain and is the main historiography created in English since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.
Brut, Or, Hystoria Brutonum
Author: LayamonPublisher: Longman Publishing Group
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 928
Book Description
At sixteen-thousand lines long, Layamon's Brut, written c.1200-1220, is the second longest poem in the English language. This national epic celebrates a myth, largely invented by Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his Historia (1138) and elaborated by the Jerseyman Wace (1155), of a Britain founded by Trojan refugees, repeatedly beset by foreign invasions and internal treachery across the centuries, triumphantly unified under such heroes as Uther Pendragon and Arthur. It marks the revival of English literature, breaking the virtual silence which followed the last entries in the Anglo Saxon Chronicle, and the beginnings of an Arthurian tradition which was to lead to Malory, to Tennyson and on to our own age. Here, for the first time in eight centuries, the poem is published complete and fully edited with modern punctuation and paragraphing. The text is accompanied by textual notes and commentary which take account of the most recent scholarship, and is presented in parallel with a close, literal translation. Unique to this edition, textual divisions expose the thematic structure of the work.
Layamon's Brut, Or, Chronicle of Britain
Author: LayamonLayamon's Brut, Or Chronicle of Britain
Author: LayamonLayamon's Arthur
Author: LayamonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Arthurian romances
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
Layamons Brut, Or Chronicle of Britain
Author: LayamonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
Widows in Anglo-Saxon and Medieval Britain
Author: Marie-Françoise AlamichelPublisher: Peter Lang
ISBN: 9783039114047
Category : Family & Relationships
Languages : en
Pages : 362
Book Description
This volume provides a comprehensive study of widowhood in Medieval Britain based on literary and historical sources from the seventh to the 15th centuries. It devotes much attention to family structures and to the legal and social aspects of inheritance.
Medieval Historical Writing
Author: Jennifer JahnerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316732207
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 689
Book Description
History writing in the Middle Ages did not belong to any particular genre, language or class of texts. Its remit was wide, embracing the events of antiquity; the deeds of saints, rulers and abbots; archival practices; and contemporary reportage. This volume addresses the challenges presented by medieval historiography by using the diverse methodologies of medieval studies: legal and literary history, art history, religious studies, codicology, the history of the emotions, gender studies and critical race theory. Spanning one thousand years of historiography in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland, the essays map historical thinking across literary genres and expose the rich veins of national mythmaking tapped into by medieval writers. Additionally, they attend to the ways in which medieval histories crossed linguistic and geographical borders. Together, they trace multiple temporalities and productive anachronisms that fuelled some of the most innovative medieval writing.
Layamon's Brut
Author: LayamonPublisher:
ISBN: 9780404039110
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 439
Book Description