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Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain - the earliest work to detail the legendary foundation of Britain by Brutus the Trojan and the life of King Arthur--was among the most widely read books throughout the Middle Ages. Its sweeping account of the Britons began long before the Romans and challenged the leading histories of the twelfth century. Merlin, Guinevere, Mordred, Yvain, Gawain, and other popular Arthurian figures first come to life in Geoffrey's chronicle. It was the ultimate source of tales retold in Malory's Morte d'Arthur, Shakespeare's Cymbeline and King Lear, and Tennyson's Idylls of the King. The History survives in hundreds of manuscripts in Geoffrey's standard text. This volume presents the first English translation of what may have been his source, the anonymous First Variant Version. This shorter and less polished Latin version of the History is attested in just a handful of manuscripts. It belonged to and was probably written by Archdeacon Walter of Oxford, who died in 1151.
Britons --- Brythons --- Celts --- Ethnology --- History --- Geoffrey, --- Geoffrey of Monmouth, --- Great Britain --- Kings and rulers --- Geoffrey, - of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph, - 1100?-1154. - Historia regum Britanniae
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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
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The essays collected here put considerable emphasis on Arthurian narratives in material culture and historical context, as well as on purely literary analysis, a reminder of the enormous range of interests in Arthurian narratives in the Middle Ages, in a number of different contexts. The volume opens with a study of torture in texts from Chrétien to Malory, and on English law and attitudes inparticular. Several contributors discuss the undeservedly neglected Stanzaic Morte Arthur, a key source for Malory. His Morte Darthur is the focus of several essays, respectively on thesources of the "Tale of Sir Gareth"; battle scenes and the importance of chivalric kingship; Cicero's De amicitia and the mixed blessings and dangers of fellowship; and comparison of concluding formulae in the Winchester Manuscript and Caxton's edition. Seven tantalizing fragments of needlework, all depicting Tristan, are discussed in terms of the heraldic devices they include. The volume ends with an update on newly discovered manuscripts of Geoffrey of Monmouth's seminal Historia regum Britanniae, the twelfth-century best-seller which launched Arthur's literary career. Elizabeth Archibald is Professor of English Studies at Durham University, and Principal of St Cuthbert's Society; David F. Johnson is Professor of English at Florida State University, Tallahassee. Contibutors: David Eugene Clark, Marco Nievergelt, Ralph Norris, Sarah Randles, Lisa Robeson, Richard Sévère, Jaakko Tahkokallio, Larissa Tracy
Arthurian romances --- History and criticism. --- Arthur, --- In literature. --- Arturus, --- Artur, --- Arturo, --- Artus, --- Artù, --- Artús, --- Артур, --- Arzhur, --- Artuš, --- Αρθούρος, --- Arthouros, --- Arthur Pendragon --- Pendragon, Arthur --- Adha, --- 아서, --- 아서 왕 --- Asŏ, --- Asŏ Wang --- ארתור, --- Arthur Gernow --- Arthurus, --- Arturius, --- Arturs, --- Artūras, --- Artúr, --- アーサー, --- アーサー王 --- Āsā-ō --- Āsā, --- Èrthu, --- Arthwys, --- Arthurian Literature. --- Arthurian matters. --- Caxton's edition. --- Chrétien. --- Cicero. --- David Eugene Clark. --- David F. Johnson. --- De amicitia. --- Elizabeth Archibald. --- English law. --- Geoffrey of Monmouth. --- Historia regum Britanniae. --- Jaakko Tahkokallio. --- Larissa Tracy. --- Lisa Robeson. --- Malory. --- Marco Nievergelt. --- Middle Ages. --- Morte Darthur. --- Ralph Norris. --- Richard Sévère. --- Sarah Randles. --- Sir Gareth. --- Stanzaic Morte Arthur. --- Tristan. --- Winchester Manuscript. --- battle scenes. --- chivalric kingship. --- concluding formulae. --- contributors. --- fellowship. --- genres. --- heraldic devices. --- historical context. --- key source. --- literary analysis. --- literary career. --- material culture. --- needlework. --- periods. --- research. --- theoretical issues. --- twelfth-century.
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