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Arthur, origins, identities and the legendary history of Britain
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ISBN: 9789004691032 Year: 2024 Publisher: Leiden ; Boston : Brill,

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"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?"--


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Gaimar's estoire des Engleis : kingship and power
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ISBN: 1800103263 1800103271 Year: 2021 Publisher: Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, NY : D.S. Brewer,

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An important text from the 'twelfth-century Renaissance' of history writing re-evaluated, drawing out its complex representations of monarchs from Cnut to William Rufus.

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