Roman De Brut
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| Author | : Wace |
| Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
| Total Pages | : 424 |
| Release | : 2002 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : |
"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 |
| Total Pages | : 321 |
| Release | : 2024-01-11 |
| Genre | : |
| ISBN | : 0192871269 |
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 | : Layamon |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Total Pages | : 199 |
| Release | : 2023-11-12 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
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.
| Author | : Wace |
| Publisher | : Boydell Press |
| Total Pages | : 332 |
| Release | : 2004 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9781843830078 |
Wace's Roman de Rou is both a valuable historical document and an important work of French literature.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 | : |
| Total Pages | : 366 |
| Release | : 1837 |
| Genre | : Great Britain |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Norris J. Lacy |
| Publisher | : Routledge |
| Total Pages | : 585 |
| Release | : 2015-07-17 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 1317341848 |
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 | : Edward Donald Kennedy |
| Publisher | : Taylor & Francis |
| Total Pages | : 372 |
| Release | : 1996 |
| Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
| ISBN | : 9780815304951 |
First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.
| Author | : Jean Blacker |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 406 |
| Release | : 2013-06-06 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 9004247688 |
Best known for his two chronicles, the Roman de Brut and the Roman de Rou, Wace, one of the great pioneers of twelfth-century French writing, is also the author of three hagiographical works: the Conception Nostre Dame and the Lives of St Margaret and St Nicholas. The Conception is the first vernacular work to focus on the life of the Virgin Mary. Emphasising Margaret's concern for women in labour, the Margaret seemingly contributed to the saint's broad popularity. The Nicholas, with its many miracles involving children, equally played a key role in popularising its protagonist's cult. The present volume brings these works together for the first time and provides the original texts, the first translations into English, notes and substantial introductions.
| Author | : Françoise Hazel Marie Le Saux |
| Publisher | : DS Brewer |
| Total Pages | : 326 |
| Release | : 2005 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9781843840435 |
| Author | : Wace |
| Publisher | : DigiCat |
| Total Pages | : 149 |
| Release | : 2022-09-15 |
| Genre | : Fiction |
| ISBN | : |
'The Brut' or 'Roman de Brut' by the poet Wace is a loose and expanded translation in almost 15,000 lines of the Norman-French verse of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain. Its genre is equivocal, being more than a chronicle but not quite a fully-fledged romance.The book narrates a largely fictional version of Britain's story from its settlement by Brutus, a refugee from Troy, who gives the poem its name, through a thousand years of pseudohistory, including the story of king Leir, up to the Roman conquest, the introduction of Christianity, and the legends of sub-Roman Britain, ending with the reign of the 7th-century king Cadwallader. Especially prominent is its account of the life of King Arthur, the first in any vernacular language, which instigated and influenced a whole school of French Arthurian romances dealing with the Round Table – here making its first appearance in literature – and with the adventures of its various knights.
