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The prose Brut chronicle was the most popular vernacular work of the late Middle Ages in England, setting a standard for vernacular historical writing well into the age of print, but until recently it has attracted little scholarly attention. This book combines a study of the chronicle's sources, content, and methods of composition, with its manuscript contexts. Using the Anglo-Norman Oldest Version as a touchstone, it investigates the chronicle's social ideals, its representation of women, and its distinctive versions of such elements of British history as the Trojan foundation myth, the ruin of the Britons, the Norman Conquest, and Arthur and Merlin, arguing that its humane, populist vision demands reassessment of medieval popular understandings of British history, and of the presumed dominance of imperialism, next-worldly piety, misogyny, and a taste for violence in late-medieval culture. The book also analyses evidence for the production of the Anglo-Norman Brut, and examines the ways in which its makers and users reconstructed British history through manuscript context, ordinatio and apparatus, annotation and illustration.Julia Marvin is a Fellow of the Medieval Institute and Associate Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.

Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman. --- Anglo-Norman manuscripts --- Brutus the Trojan --- Brut --- Brutus of Troy --- Bryttos, King --- Chronicles of England. --- Prose Brut --- Brut (Medieval prose chronicle) --- Great Britain --- History --- Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character) --- To 1500 --- To 1485 --- Brute, --- Brutus, --- Bryttos,

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091 <41> --- 091 <41> Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Verenigd Koninkrijk van Groot-Brittannië en Noord-Ierland --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Handschriften [Engelse ] (Middel) --- Manuscripts [English ] (Middle) --- Manuscripts [Middle English ] --- Manuscrits anglais (Moyen) --- Middle English manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman --- Manuscripts, English (Old) --- Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Scriptoria --- Copying rooms --- Writing rooms --- Rooms --- Illumination of books and manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- Monasteries --- Monastic libraries --- Medieval manuscripts --- Medieval and modern Latin manuscripts --- Anglo-Saxon manuscripts --- English manuscripts, Old --- Manuscripts, Anglo-Saxon --- Manuscripts, Old English --- Old English manuscripts --- Anglo-Norman manuscripts --- History --- Reproduction --- Great Britain --- Sources --- Manuscripts [Latin ] (Medieval and modern) --- Catalogs --- Manuscripts [English ] (Old)