Author: Margaret Evah HouckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Sources of the Roman de Brut of Wace
Author: Margaret Evah HouckPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 472
Book Description
Sources of the Roman de Brut of Wace
Author: Margaret HouckSources of the Roman de Brut of Wace Aside from the Historia Regum Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth
Author: Margaret Evah HouckRoman de Brut
Author: WacePublisher: Liverpool University Press
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 424
Book Description
"This is an editions and translation of the first extant vernacular 'history' of Britain, by the Norman-French cleric Wace. His verse chronicle was in turn a translation, from the Latin prose of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (c. 1138). It traces British history, part factual, part fictional, stretching from Brutus., the eponymous founder of the nation, up to seventh century, when Anglo-Saxon invaders took control of the island. Some well-known stories appear here for the first time, such as that of King Lear and the earliest full-blown 'biography' of King Arthur. The Normans were keen to discover, and where they could not discover, invent, the history of the land they had conquered. Geoffrey's work filled that need, and Wace continued the process by making such history still more accessible and memorable, putting it into French verse and presenting it to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the cultivated wife of his king, in 1155. This volume provides the French text en face, revised from Ivor Arnold's 1938 edition and restoring many readings from his base manuscripts. It includes a full introduction by the translator." -- Publisher's description
Roman de Brut
Author: WacePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192871269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 321
Book Description
This volume provides an accessible, English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons.
Wace's Roman De Brut
Author: Judith Elizabeth WeissPublisher:
ISBN: 9781800343832
Category : Anglo-Norman dialect
Languages : en
Pages : 385
Book Description
Source of the Roman de Brut of Wace, Aside from the Historia Regun Britanniae of Geoffrey of Monmouth
Author: Roman de Brut
Author: WacePublisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192699024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.' Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to the history of the Britons for both French and English speakers of the time, and thus to Arthurian history, as the first complete Old French adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain (late 1130s), in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons. The Roman de Brut was a foundational work, an inspiration for a series of anonymous verse Bruts of the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries and for the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut -- the most widely read French vernacular text on this material in medieval England -- as well as a forerunner of the Middle English Brut tradition, including Layamon's Brut (c. 1200). Wace's poem thus inaugurates and shapes Brut traditions, including Arthurian tales, in verse and in prose, in historiography and in literature, including Wace's innovation of King Arthur's Round Table. This volume contains an English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, accompanied by an introduction and notes, a select bibliography, a summary of the text, a list of manuscripts, and indexes of personal and geographical names.
A Companion to Wace
Author: Françoise Hazel Marie Le SauxPublisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840435
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Table of contents
Le Roman de Brut, Volume 1
Author: WacePublisher: Nabu Press
ISBN: 9781295475490
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book. ++++ The below data was compiled from various identification fields in the bibliographic record of this title. This data is provided as an additional tool in helping to ensure edition identification: ++++ Le Roman De Brut, Volume 1; Le Roman De Brut; Wace Wace E. Fr�re, 1836 Literary Criticism; Medieval; Literary Criticism / Medieval; Poetry / Continental European