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Great Britain - Intellectual life - 1066-1485.

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This was the first full-scale history of medieval English literature for nearly a century. Thirty-three distinguished contributors offer a collaborative account of literature composed or transmitted in England, Wales, Ireland and Scotland between the Norman conquest and the death of Henry VIII in 1547. The volume has five sections: 'After the Norman Conquest'; 'Writing in the British Isles'; 'Institutional Productions'; 'After the Black Death' and 'Before the Reformation'. It provides information on a vast range of literary texts and the conditions of their production and reception, which will serve both specialists and general readers, and also contains a chronology, full bibliography and a detailed index. This book offers an extensive and vibrant account of the medieval literatures so drastically reconfigured in Tudor England. It will thus prove essential reading for scholars of the Renaissance as well as medievalists, and for historians as well as literary specialists.

English literature --- Littérature anglaise --- History and criticism. --- Histoire et critique --- Great Britain --- Grande-Bretagne --- Intellectual life --- Vie intellectuelle --- Bibliography --- History and criticism --- Civilisation médiévale --- Dans la littérature --- Littérature anglaise --- Dans la littérature. --- Histoire et critique. --- English literature - Middle English, 1100-1500 - Bibliography --- English literature - Early modern, 1500-1700 - History and criticism --- Great Britain - Intellectual life - 1066-1485 --- Great Britain - Intellectual life - 16th century --- Civilisation médiévale --- Dans la littérature.

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Arthurian literature is a popular field, but most of the published work focuses on the vernacular tradition. This book, uniquely, looks at Latin Arthurian works. Geoffrey of Monmouth is treated at length and this is the first book to put him in a context which includes other Latin histories, monastic chronicles, saints' lives and other Latin prose Arthurian narratives. Like Geoffrey's works, most can be associated with the Angevin court of Henry II and by placing these works against the court background, this book both introduces a new set of texts into the Arthurian canon and suggests a way to understand their place in that tradition. The unfamiliar works are summarized for the reader, and there are extensive quotations, with translations, throughout. The result is a thorough exploration of Latin Arthurian narrative in the foundational period for the Arthurian tradition.

Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) --- Britons --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric, Medieval --- History and criticism --- Historiography --- Geoffrey, --- Great Britain --- History --- Intellectual life --- Arthurian romances --- -Britons --- -Latin literature, Medieval and modern --- -Narration (Rhetoric) --- -Latin romances, Medieval and modern --- Narrative (Rhetoric) --- Narrative writing --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric) --- Brythons --- Celts --- Ethnology --- Romances --- Bibliography --- Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph --- -Arthurian romances --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- History and criticism. --- Historiography. --- -History and criticism --- Narration (Rhetoric). --- Latin romances, Medieval and modern --- Geoffrey of Monmouth, --- Arts and Humanities --- Literature --- Latin literature, Medieval and modern - Great Britain - History and criticism --- Romances, Latin (Medieval and modern) - History and criticism --- Britons - Historiography --- Arthur --- Geoffrey, - of Monmouth, Bishop of St Asaph, - 1100?-1154 - Historia regum Britanniae --- Great Britain - History - Henry II, 1154-1189 --- Great Britain - Intellectual life - 1066-1485