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Kingship, Conquest, and Patria - Literary and Cultural Identities in Medieval French and Welsh Arthurian Romance (Hardcover, Annotated Ed) Loot Price: R4,146
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Kingship, Conquest, and Patria - Literary and Cultural Identities in Medieval French and Welsh Arthurian Romance (Hardcover,...

Kingship, Conquest, and Patria - Literary and Cultural Identities in Medieval French and Welsh Arthurian Romance (Hardcover, Annotated Ed)

Kristen Lee Over

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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Imprint: Routledge
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Series: Studies in Medieval History and Culture
Release date: June 2005
First published: 2005
Authors: Kristen Lee Over
Dimensions: 229 x 152 x 18mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 244
Edition: Annotated Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-415-97271-0
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > General
LSN: 0-415-97271-X
Barcode: 9780415972710

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