Layamon's Arthur : The Arthurian Section of Layamon's Brut Paperback / softback
Part of the Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies series
Paperback / softback
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Layamon's Brut is a landmark in English literature, the first major work in English after the Norman Conquest, and the precursor of a rich Arthurian literature, from Malory to Tennyson and on to our own time.
This edition combines a fully-edited version of the original text with a close parallel prose translation, together with a lengthy Introduction, textual notes and a full and up-to-date bibliography.Written c.1200-1220, the Brut develops the themes of its principal source, Robert Wace's Roman de Brut, itself a version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's bestseller, the Historia Regum Britanniae, in a metre and idiom reminiscent of Old English.
It demonstrates the fundamental strength of a native culture which survived two centuries of French dominance to re-emerge as a fusion of a national tradition and continental influences.
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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:362 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2005
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- ISBN:9780859896856
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Item not Available
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:362 pages
- Publisher:Liverpool University Press
- Publication Date:01/09/2005
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- ISBN:9780859896856
