Roman De Brut

Author : Wace
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 424 pages
Book Rating : 4.67/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman de Brut written by Wace and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 424 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This is an editions and translation of the first extant vernacular 'history' of Britain, by the Norman-French cleric Wace. His verse chronicle was in turn a translation, from the Latin prose of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (c. 1138). It traces British history, part factual, part fictional, stretching from Brutus., the eponymous founder of the nation, up to seventh century, when Anglo-Saxon invaders took control of the island. Some well-known stories appear here for the first time, such as that of King Lear and the earliest full-blown 'biography' of King Arthur. The Normans were keen to discover, and where they could not discover, invent, the history of the land they had conquered. Geoffrey's work filled that need, and Wace continued the process by making such history still more accessible and memorable, putting it into French verse and presenting it to Eleanor of Aquitaine, the cultivated wife of his king, in 1155. This volume provides the French text en face, revised from Ivor Arnold's 1938 edition and restoring many readings from his base manuscripts. It includes a full introduction by the translator." -- Publisher's description

Author : Wace
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192871269
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.68/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman de Brut written by Wace and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2024-01-11 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides an accessible, English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons.

Author : Wace
Publisher : Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Le Roman de Brut written by Wace and published by Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS). This book was released on 2005 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Wace
Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781843830078
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.78/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The History of the Norman People written by Wace and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wace's Roman de Rou is both a valuable historical document and an important work of French literature. Composed during the 1160s and 1170s, it relates the origins of Normandy from the time of Hasting and Rollo (Rou) and continues as far as the battle of Tinchebray in 1106.

Author : Wace
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0192699024
Total Pages : 365 pages
Book Rating : 4.22/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Roman de Brut written by Wace and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2023-12-12 with total page 365 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.' Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to the history of the Britons for both French and English speakers of the time, and thus to Arthurian history, as the first complete Old French adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain (late 1130s), in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons. The Roman de Brut was a foundational work, an inspiration for a series of anonymous verse Bruts of the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries and for the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut -- the most widely read French vernacular text on this material in medieval England -- as well as a forerunner of the Middle English Brut tradition, including Layamon's Brut (c. 1200). Wace's poem thus inaugurates and shapes Brut traditions, including Arthurian tales, in verse and in prose, in historiography and in literature, including Wace's innovation of King Arthur's Round Table. This volume contains an English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, accompanied by an introduction and notes, a select bibliography, a summary of the text, a list of manuscripts, and indexes of personal and geographical names.

Author : Edward Donald Kennedy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1135367205
Total Pages : 368 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book King Arthur written by Edward Donald Kennedy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-18 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examining the origins of the Arthurian legend and major trends in the portrayal of Arthur from the Middle Ages to the present, this collection focuses on discussion of literature written in English, French, Latin, and German. Its 16 essays, four published here for the first time, deal with such matters as the search for the historical Arthur; the depiction of Arthur in the romances Erec and Iwein of Hartmann von Aue; the way Arthur is depicted in 19th-century art and the Victorian view of manhood; and conceptions of King Arthur in 20th-century literature. Six of the essays, originally published in French and German, are translated into English especially for this book. Two essays have been substantially revised. An introduction offers a general discussion of the development of the legends in the countries of Europe. Works discussed include medieval and Renaissance chronicles (Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae, Wace's Roman de Brut, Polydore Vergil's Anglica Historia, Scottish vernacular and Latin chronicles), medieval romances (the Lancelot en prose, the Mort Artu, the Post-Vulgate Roman du Graal, and works of Chrétien de Troyes, Hartmann von Aue, and Sir Thomas Malory), Spenser's Faerie Queene, Tennyson's Idylls of the King, and T.H. White's Once and Future King. A bibliography lists selected major secondary studies of King Arthur as well as major reference works.

Author : Norris J. Lacy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317341848
Total Pages : 585 pages
Book Rating : 4.40/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Romance of Arthur written by Norris J. Lacy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-07-17 with total page 585 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Romance of Arthur, James J. Wilhelm’s classic anthology of Arthurian literature, is an essential text for students of the medieval Romance tradition. This fully updated third edition presents a comprehensive reader, mapping the course of Arthurian literature, and is expanded to cover: key authors such as Chrétien de Troyes and Thomas of Britain, as well as Arthurian texts by women and more obscure sources for Arthurian romance extensive coverage of key themes and characters in the tradition a wide geographical range of texts including translations from Latin, French, German, Spanish, Welsh, Middle English, and Italian sources a broad chronological range of texts, encompassing nearly a thousand years of Arthurian romance. Norris J. Lacy builds on the book’s source material, presenting readers with a clear introduction to many accessible modern-spelling versions of Arthurian texts. The extracts are presented in a new reader-friendly format with detailed suggestions for further reading and illustrations of key places, figures, and scenes. The Romance of Arthur provides an excellent introduction and an extensive resource for both students and scholars of Arthurian literature.

Author : Wace
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Master Wace, His Chronicle of the Norman Conquest from the Roman de Rou written by Wace and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Margaret Evah Houck
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 472 pages
Book Rating : 4.41/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sources of the Roman de Brut of Wace written by Margaret Evah Houck and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 472 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Layamon
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Layamon's Brut written by Layamon and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2023-11-12 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Layamon's Brut is a Middle English poem assembled and remold by the vicar Layamon. The Brut relates the history of Britain and is the main historiography created in English since the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle.