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Kingship, Conquest, and Patria - Literary and Cultural Identities in Medieval French and Welsh Arthurian Romance (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
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Kingship, Conquest, and Patria - Literary and Cultural Identities in Medieval French and Welsh Arthurian Romance (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)
Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture
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Distinctly interdisciplinary, "Kingship, Conquest, and Patria"
brings together French and Welsh studies with literary and
historical analysis, genre study with questions of medieval
colonialisms and national writing. It treats eight centuries' worth
of insular and continental literature, placing the 12th- and
13th-century development of Arthurian romance in a history of
fraught, ambiguous relations between Capetian France, Angevin
England, and native Wales. Overall, the book aims to contextualize
how French Arthurian romance and Welsh rhamant, despite being
products of opposing cultures in an age of conquest, collectively
revise the figure of King Arthur created by earlier insular
tradition. At a time when contemporary monarchies sought to curtail
the autonomy of both northern French and Welsh principalities, the
literary image of kingship pointedly declines in romance and
rhamant, replaced by an ideal of knightly independence. A focus on
the romance portrait of King Arthur is the culmination of this
study: Part I provides a survey of early British Arthurian material
written in Latin and Welsh; Part II presents the historical
contexts in northern France and Wales out of which the genre of
Arthurian romance emerged; Part III turns to literary and
sociopolitical analyses of Chre tien's five romances and the three
Welsh "rhamantau."
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