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Giraldus --- Cambrensis --- 1146?-1223? --- Geoffrey --- of Monmouth --- Bishop of St. Asaph --- 1100?-1154
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Giraldus --- Cambrensis --- 1146?-1223? --- Geoffrey --- of Monmouth --- Bishop of St. Asaph --- 1100?-1154
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Forgotten But Important Lexicographers: John Wilkins and William Lloyd: A Modern Approach to Lexicography Before Johnson (Lexicographica. Series Maior)
English language --- Germanic languages --- Lexicography --- History --- Lloyd, William, --- Wilkins, John, --- Person of quality, --- Author of the late Seasonable discourse --- Seasonable discourse, Author of the late --- St. Asaph, --- William, --- Bishop of St. Asaph --- Lexicology. Semantics --- Linguistics --- Wilkins, John --- Lloyd, W. --- Lexicography.
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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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Anyone interested in Arthurian Studies will know of the central role played by Geoffrey of Monmouth in the development and spread of the Arthurian legend from Britain to medieval Europe. But Geoffrey's material, both his History of the Kings of Britain and his Life of Merlin, went far beyond Arthur and his deeds: it presented, for the first time, a coherent and proud account of Britain's early history, from its foundation to its eclipse at the hands of the Anglo-Saxons. The extent to which the enigmatic Geoffrey, at once an astonishingly diligent researcher and a shameless inventor of fact, tr
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Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714 --- Foreign public opinion. --- Propaganda. --- War of the Spanish Succession, 1701-1714 --- Foreign public opinion --- Propaganda --- Hare, Francis, --- Presbyter of the Church of England, --- Impartial hand, --- Chichester, Francis, --- Francis, --- St. Asaph, Francis, --- Citizen, --- Humble servant, --- Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714 - Foreign public opinion. --- Spanish Succession, War of, 1701-1714 - Propaganda.
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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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