Wace The Hagiographical Works
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Wace The Hagiographical Works
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Author : Jean Blacker
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2013-06-06
Wace The Hagiographical Works written by Jean Blacker and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-06 with History categories.
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.
Sacred Fictions Of Medieval France
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Author : Maureen Barry McCann Boulton
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2015
Sacred Fictions Of Medieval France written by Maureen Barry McCann Boulton and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015 with Literary Criticism categories.
A study of the immensely popular "lives" of Christ and the Virgin in medieval France.
A Companion To Geoffrey Of Monmouth
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language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2020-08-10
A Companion To Geoffrey Of Monmouth written by and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-08-10 with History categories.
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval Britain, Geoffrey (d. 1154) popularized Arthurian literature and left an indelible mark on European romance, history, and genealogy. Despite this outsized influence, Geoffrey’s own life, background, and motivations are little understood. The volume situates his life and works within their immediate historical context, and frames them within current critical discussion across the humanities. By necessity, this volume concentrates primarily on Geoffrey’s own life and times, with the reception of his works covered by a series of short encyclopaedic overviews, organized by language, that serve as guides to further reading. Contributors are Jean Blacker, Elizabeth Bryan, Thomas H. Crofts, Siân Echard, Fabrizio De Falco, Michael Faletra, Ben Guy, Santiago Gutiérrez García, Nahir I. Otaño Gracia, Paloma Gracia, Georgia Henley, David F. Johnson, Owain Wyn Jones, Maud Burnett McInerney, Françoise Le Saux, Barry Lewis, Coral Lumbley, Simon Meecham-Jones, Paul Russell, Victoria Shirley, Joshua Byron Smith, Jaakko Tahkokallio, Hélène Tétrel, Rebecca Thomas, Fiona Tolhurst.
Roman De Brut
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Author : Wace
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2024-01-11
Roman De Brut written by Wace and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-11 with categories.
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.
Lives Identities And Histories In The Central Middle Ages
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Author : Julie Barrau
language : en
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Release Date : 2021-10-07
Lives Identities And Histories In The Central Middle Ages written by Julie Barrau and has been published by Cambridge University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2021-10-07 with History categories.
Offers a new take on the identities and life histories of medieval people, in their multi-layered and sometimes contradictory dimensions.
Arthur Origins Identities And The Legendary History Of Britain
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Author : Jean Blacker
language : en
Publisher: BRILL
Release Date : 2024-03-21
Arthur Origins Identities And The Legendary History Of Britain written by Jean Blacker and has been published by BRILL this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-03-21 with History categories.
Geoffrey of Monmouth’s immensely popular Latin prose Historia regum Britanniae (c. 1138), followed by French verse translations – Wace’s Roman de Brut (1155) and anonymous versions including the Royal Brut, the Munich, Harley, and Egerton Bruts (12th -14th c.), initiated Arthurian narratives of many genres throughout the ages, alongside Welsh, English, and other traditions. Arthur, Origins, Identities and the Legendary History of Britain addresses how Arthurian histories incorporating the British foundation myth responded to images of individual or collective identity and how those narratives contributed to those identities. What cultural, political or psychic needs did these Arthurian narratives meet and what might have been the origins of those needs? And how did each text contribute to a “larger picture” of Arthur, to the construction of a myth that still remains so compelling today?
The New Historians Of The Twelfth Century Renaissance
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Author : Peter Damian-Grint
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 1999
The New Historians Of The Twelfth Century Renaissance written by Peter Damian-Grint and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999 with History categories.
Examination of the striking new style of writing history in the twelfth century, by men such as Gaimar, Wace and Ambroise.
Bulletin Bibliographique De La Soci T Internationale Arthurienne
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Author : International Arthurian Society
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
Bulletin Bibliographique De La Soci T Internationale Arthurienne written by International Arthurian Society and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Arthurian romances categories.
A Companion To Wace
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Author : Françoise Hazel Marie Le Saux
language : en
Publisher: DS Brewer
Release Date : 2005
A Companion To Wace written by Françoise Hazel Marie Le Saux and has been published by DS Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with Literary Criticism categories.
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An Anglo Norman Reader
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Author : Jane Bliss
language : en
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Release Date : 2018-02-08
An Anglo Norman Reader written by Jane Bliss and has been published by Open Book Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2018-02-08 with Literary Collections categories.
This book is an anthology with a difference. It presents a distinctive variety of Anglo-Norman works, beginning in the twelfth century and ending in the nineteenth, covering a broad range of genres and writers, introduced in a lively and thought-provoking way. Facing-page translations, into accessible and engaging modern English, are provided throughout, bringing these texts to life for a contemporary audience. The collection offers a selection of fascinating passages, and whole texts, many of which are not anthologised or translated anywhere else. It explores little-known byways of Arthurian legend and stories of real-life crime and punishment; women’s voices tell history, write letters, berate pagans; advice is offered on how to win friends and influence people, how to cure people’s ailments and how to keep clear of the law; and stories from the Bible are retold with commentary, together with guidance on prayer and confession. Each text is introduced and elucidated with notes and full references, and the material is divided into three main sections: Story (a variety of narrative forms), Miscellany (including letters, law and medicine, and other non-fiction), and Religious (saints' lives, sermons, Bible commentary, and prayers). Passages in one genre have been chosen so as to reflect themes or stories that appear in another, so that the book can be enjoyed as a collection or used as a resource to dip into for selected texts. This anthology is essential reading for students and scholars of Anglo-Norman and medieval literature and culture. Wide-ranging and fully referenced, it can be used as a springboard for further study or relished in its own right by readers interested to discover Anglo-Norman literature that was written to amuse, instruct, entertain, or admonish medieval audiences.