Layamon's Brut
Layamon's Brut

Author: Layamon

Publisher: DigiCat

Published: 2023-11-12

Total Pages: 199

ISBN-13:

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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.

The Romance of Arthur
The Romance of Arthur

Author: Norris J. Lacy

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2015-07-17

Total Pages: 585

ISBN-13: 1317341848

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The Romance of Arthur, James J. Wilhelm’s classic anthology of Arthurian literature, is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition. This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader, mapping the course of Arthurian literature, and is expanded to cover: key authors such as Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas of Britain, as well as Arthurian texts by women and more obscure sources for Arthurian romance extensive coverage of key themes and characters in the tradition a wide geographical range of texts including translations from Latin, French, German, Spanish, Welsh, Middle English, and Italian sources a broad chronological range of texts, encompassing nearly a thousand years of Arthurian romance. Norris J. Lacy builds on the book’s source material, presenting readers with a clear introduction to many accessible modern-spelling versions of Arthurian texts. The extracts are presented in a new reader-friendly format with detailed suggestions for further reading and illustrations of key places, figures, and scenes. The Romance of Arthur provides an excellent introduction and an extensive resource for both students and scholars of Arthurian literature.

The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature
The Character of King Arthur in Medieval Literature

Author: Rosemary Morris

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd

Published: 1982

Total Pages: 186

ISBN-13: 0859910881

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This study is based on literry works in various languages, from earliest times until approximately 1500. The 'biographer' of Arthur, tries to interlink the various sources.

Brut, Or, Hystoria Brutonum
Brut, Or, Hystoria Brutonum

Author: Layamon

Publisher: Longman Publishing Group

Published: 1995

Total Pages: 928

ISBN-13:

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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.

The Romance of Arthur
The Romance of Arthur

Author: James J. Wilhelm

Publisher: Psychology Press

Published: 1994

Total Pages: 596

ISBN-13: 9780815315117

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Covering almost a thousand years, this work features translated texts in a broad range of genres, from the early chronicles and Welsh verse through Sir Thomas Malory.