Author: Jean Blacker
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004247688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Best known for his two chronicles, the Roman de Brut and the Roman de Rou, Wace, one of the great pioneers of twelfth-century French writing, is also the author of three hagiographical works: the Conception Nostre Dame and the Lives of St Margaret and St Nicholas. The Conception is the first vernacular work to focus on the life of the Virgin Mary. Emphasising Margaret's concern for women in labour, the Margaret seemingly contributed to the saint's broad popularity. The Nicholas, with its many miracles involving children, equally played a key role in popularising its protagonist's cult. The present volume brings these works together for the first time and provides the original texts, the first translations into English, notes and substantial introductions.
Wace, The Hagiographical Works
Author: Jean Blacker
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004247688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Best known for his two chronicles, the Roman de Brut and the Roman de Rou, Wace, one of the great pioneers of twelfth-century French writing, is also the author of three hagiographical works: the Conception Nostre Dame and the Lives of St Margaret and St Nicholas. The Conception is the first vernacular work to focus on the life of the Virgin Mary. Emphasising Margaret's concern for women in labour, the Margaret seemingly contributed to the saint's broad popularity. The Nicholas, with its many miracles involving children, equally played a key role in popularising its protagonist's cult. The present volume brings these works together for the first time and provides the original texts, the first translations into English, notes and substantial introductions.
Publisher: BRILL
ISBN: 9004247688
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 406
Book Description
Best known for his two chronicles, the Roman de Brut and the Roman de Rou, Wace, one of the great pioneers of twelfth-century French writing, is also the author of three hagiographical works: the Conception Nostre Dame and the Lives of St Margaret and St Nicholas. The Conception is the first vernacular work to focus on the life of the Virgin Mary. Emphasising Margaret's concern for women in labour, the Margaret seemingly contributed to the saint's broad popularity. The Nicholas, with its many miracles involving children, equally played a key role in popularising its protagonist's cult. The present volume brings these works together for the first time and provides the original texts, the first translations into English, notes and substantial introductions.
A Companion to Wace
Author: Françoise Hazel Marie Le Saux
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840435
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Table of contents
Publisher: DS Brewer
ISBN: 9781843840435
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 326
Book Description
Table of contents
Roman de Brut
Author: Wace
Publisher: 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.
Publisher: 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, and the Roman de Rou
Author: James Bertrand de Vinchelés Payen-Payne
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 36
Book Description
King Harold Ii
Author: Peter Burke
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665586354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Strange markings are found in a twelfth-century wall. A retired stonemason seeks to unravel a hidden message carved in haste by an ancient stonemason who risked his life to leave symbols cut into stone so deep that they would remain silent for nine hundred years, until someone should read these symbols and search for their meaning. Who left these strange symbols? Is it possible that a retired stonemason in this modern world could discover the meaning of symbols left by a fellow mason so long ago? It sounds like a work of fiction, but this is a true story. This is a unique and powerful account of a husband and wife who searched for the truth, found the real story, and revealed the true nature of our last Saxon king, Harold Godwinson. It is the English story, known by a small group of monks, loyal to Harold, and recorded in the 12th century. It was written to refute the false claims of William the Duke, the lying Norman, William the Bastard.
Publisher: AuthorHouse
ISBN: 1665586354
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 131
Book Description
Strange markings are found in a twelfth-century wall. A retired stonemason seeks to unravel a hidden message carved in haste by an ancient stonemason who risked his life to leave symbols cut into stone so deep that they would remain silent for nine hundred years, until someone should read these symbols and search for their meaning. Who left these strange symbols? Is it possible that a retired stonemason in this modern world could discover the meaning of symbols left by a fellow mason so long ago? It sounds like a work of fiction, but this is a true story. This is a unique and powerful account of a husband and wife who searched for the truth, found the real story, and revealed the true nature of our last Saxon king, Harold Godwinson. It is the English story, known by a small group of monks, loyal to Harold, and recorded in the 12th century. It was written to refute the false claims of William the Duke, the lying Norman, William the Bastard.
English Literature from Widsith to the Death of Chaucer
Author: Allen Rogers Benham
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 674
Book Description
The Rushton M. Dorman, Esq. Library Sale Catalogue (1886)
Author: Samuel J. Rogal
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773473799
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
volume is the first in a two-volume set which constitutes an edition of the sale catalogue of the private library of Rushton M. Dorman of Chicago, Illinois, a collection numbering 1842 separate items. The book demonstrates book-collecting and reading habits and interests among affluent late 19th-century Americans. In addition, the substance and tone of the comments set down by the original compiler of the catalogue display the marketing methods employed by a major late-19th-century book-auction firm.
Publisher: Edwin Mellen Press
ISBN: 9780773473799
Category : Antiques & Collectibles
Languages : en
Pages : 508
Book Description
volume is the first in a two-volume set which constitutes an edition of the sale catalogue of the private library of Rushton M. Dorman of Chicago, Illinois, a collection numbering 1842 separate items. The book demonstrates book-collecting and reading habits and interests among affluent late 19th-century Americans. In addition, the substance and tone of the comments set down by the original compiler of the catalogue display the marketing methods employed by a major late-19th-century book-auction firm.
The Linguistic Past in Twelfth-Century Britain
Author: Sara Harris
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316851559
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
How was the complex history of Britain's languages understood by twelfth-century authors? This book argues that the social, political and linguistic upheavals that occurred in the wake of the Norman Conquest intensified later interest in the historicity of languages. An atmosphere of enquiry fostered vernacular literature's prestige and led to a newfound sense of how ancient languages could be used to convey historical claims. The vernacular hence became an important site for the construction and memorialisation of dynastic, institutional and ethnic identities. This study demonstrates the breadth of interest in the linguistic past across different social groups and the striking variety of genre used to depict it, including romance, legal translation, history, poetry and hagiography. Through a series of detailed case studies, Sara Harris shows how specific works represent key aspects of the period's imaginative engagement with English, Brittonic, Latin and French language development.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1316851559
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 295
Book Description
How was the complex history of Britain's languages understood by twelfth-century authors? This book argues that the social, political and linguistic upheavals that occurred in the wake of the Norman Conquest intensified later interest in the historicity of languages. An atmosphere of enquiry fostered vernacular literature's prestige and led to a newfound sense of how ancient languages could be used to convey historical claims. The vernacular hence became an important site for the construction and memorialisation of dynastic, institutional and ethnic identities. This study demonstrates the breadth of interest in the linguistic past across different social groups and the striking variety of genre used to depict it, including romance, legal translation, history, poetry and hagiography. Through a series of detailed case studies, Sara Harris shows how specific works represent key aspects of the period's imaginative engagement with English, Brittonic, Latin and French language development.
Feudal England; Historical Studies on the XIth and XIIth Centuries
Author: John Horace Round
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domesday book
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
John Horace Round (1854-1928) published Feudal England in 1895. The volume is a collection of Round's articles on feudalism, most of which had been previously published in the English Historical Review. The essays cover the period 1050-1200. They are linked by Round's overarching argument that it was the Norman Conquest that transplanted feudalism to England and that during the Anglo-Saxon period England had no real feudal institutions. The volume includes Round's groundbreaking article 'The Introduction of Knight Service into England', first published in the English Historical Review for 1891-1892; a number of his important essays on the Domesday Book, a topic on which he was long regarded as the leading expert; and several essays challenging the historical methods of Professor Freeman, the main opponent of Round's ideas. Feudal England was highly influential in medieval scholarship, and is still an important resource for researchers.
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Domesday book
Languages : en
Pages : 614
Book Description
John Horace Round (1854-1928) published Feudal England in 1895. The volume is a collection of Round's articles on feudalism, most of which had been previously published in the English Historical Review. The essays cover the period 1050-1200. They are linked by Round's overarching argument that it was the Norman Conquest that transplanted feudalism to England and that during the Anglo-Saxon period England had no real feudal institutions. The volume includes Round's groundbreaking article 'The Introduction of Knight Service into England', first published in the English Historical Review for 1891-1892; a number of his important essays on the Domesday Book, a topic on which he was long regarded as the leading expert; and several essays challenging the historical methods of Professor Freeman, the main opponent of Round's ideas. Feudal England was highly influential in medieval scholarship, and is still an important resource for researchers.
The True History of Merlin the Magician
Author: Anne Lawrence-Mathers
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030014489X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Analyzes the historical impact of Merlin from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, during which time he was considered a political prophet and historical figure, and explores how the meaning of his magic evolved over the centuries.
Publisher: Yale University Press
ISBN: 030014489X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 267
Book Description
Analyzes the historical impact of Merlin from the twelfth to the sixteenth centuries, during which time he was considered a political prophet and historical figure, and explores how the meaning of his magic evolved over the centuries.