Author : Layamon
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 199 pages
File Size : 26,56 MB
Release : 2023-11-12
Category : Fiction
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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.
Author : Layamon
Publisher :
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 13,45 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Arthurian romances
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Author : Layamon
Publisher : Longman Publishing Group
Page : 928 pages
File Size : 27,4 MB
Release : 1995
Category : History
ISBN :
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.
Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 585 pages
File Size : 35,68 MB
Release : 2015-07-17
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317341848
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.
Author : Layamon
Publisher : Orion
Page : 534 pages
File Size : 50,75 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Arthurian romances
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Author : Layamon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 21,54 MB
Release : 2001
Category : Arthurian romances
ISBN : 9780859896856
Layamon's Brut is a landmark in English literature, the first major work in English after the Norman Conquest, and the precursor of a rich Arthurian literature, from Malory to Tennyson and on to our own time. This edition combines a fully-edited version of the original text with a close parallel prose translation, together with a lengthy Introduction, textual notes and a full and up-to-date bibliography. Written c.1200-1220, the Brut develops the themes of its principal source, Robert Wace's Roman de Brut, itself a version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's bestseller, the Historia Regum Britanniae, in a metre and idiom reminiscent of Old English. It demonstrates the fundamental strength of a native culture which survived two centuries of French dominance to re-emerge as a fusion of a national tradition and continental influences.
Author : Layamon
Publisher :
Page : pages
File Size : 50,40 MB
Release : 1847
Category :
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Author : Layamon
Publisher :
Page : 660 pages
File Size : 33,81 MB
Release : 1847
Category : Arthurian romances
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Author : Thomas More
Publisher : e-artnow
Page : 105 pages
File Size : 37,21 MB
Release : 2019-04-08
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 8027303583
Utopia is a work of fiction and socio-political satire by Thomas More published in 1516 in Latin. The book is a frame narrative primarily depicting a fictional island society and its religious, social and political customs. Many aspects of More's description of Utopia are reminiscent of life in monasteries.
Author : Debra N. Mancoff
Publisher : Scholarly Title
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 35,62 MB
Release : 1990
Category : Art
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