Le Roman de Brut

Le Roman de Brut
Author: Wace
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN:

Roman de Brut

Roman de Brut
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.

The History of the Norman People

The History of the Norman People
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Wace's Roman de Rou is both a valuable historical document and an important work of French literature.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.

The Romance of Arthur

The Romance of Arthur
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.

Layamon's Brut

Layamon's Brut
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.

The Arthur of the English

The Arthur of the English
Author: W R J Barron
Publisher: University of Wales Press
Total Pages: 442
Release: 2020-11-15
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1786837404

This first comprehensive treatment of Arthurian literature in the English language up until the end of the Middle Ages is now available for the first time in paperback. English people think of Arthur as their own – stamped on the landscape in scores of place-names, echoed in the names of princes even today. Yet some would say the English were the historical Arthur’s bitterest enemies and usurpers of his heritage. The process by which Arthurian legends have become an important part of England’s cultural heritage is traced in this book. Previous studies have concentrated on the handful of chivalric romances, which have given the impression that Arthur is a hero of romantic escapism. This study seeks to provide a more comprehensive and insightful look at the English Arthurian legends and how they evolved. It focuses primarily upon the literary aspects of Arthurian legend, but it also makes some important political and social observations.

Gesta Regum Britannie

Gesta Regum Britannie
Author: Neil Wright
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Total Pages: 462
Release: 1991
Genre: Arthurian romances
ISBN: 0859912140

Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut

Arthurian Chronicles: Roman de Brut
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.