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Fruits of the most recent research on the thirteenth century in
both England and Europe. The articles collected here reflect the
continued and wide interest in England and its neighbours in the
years between Magna Carta and the Black Death, with many of them
particularly seeking to set England in its European context.There
are three main strands to the volume. The first is the social
dimension of power, and the norms and practice of politics:
attention is drawn to the variety of roles open to members of the
clergy, but also peasants and townsmen, and the populace at large.
Several chapters explore the manifestations and instruments of
social identity, such as the seals used by the leading elites of
thirteenth-century London, and the marriage practices of the
Englisharistocracy. The third main focus is the uses of the past.
Matthew Paris, the most famous chronicler of the period, receives
due attention, in particular his changing attitude towards the
monarch, but the Vita Edwardi Secundi's portrayal of Thomas of
Lancaster and the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut are also considered.
Janet Burton is Professor of Medieval History at University of
Wales: Trinity Saint David; Phillipp Schofield is Professor of
Medieval History at Aberystwyth University; Bjoern Weiler is
Professor of History at Aberystwyth University. Contributors: J.R.
Maddicott, Phillipp Schofield, Harmony Dewez, John McEwan, Joerg
Peltzer, Karen Stoeber, Olga Cecilia Mendez Gonzalez, Sophie
Ambler, Joe Creamer, Lars Kjaer, Andrew Spencer, Julia Marvin,
Olivier de Laborderie
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Arthurian Literature XVIII (Hardcover)
Keith Busby; Contributions by Carleton W. Carroll, Jane H. M. Taylor, Julia Marvin, Maria Colombo Timelli, …
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Epitomises what is best in Arthurian scholarship today. ZEITSCHRIFT
FUER ROMANISCHE PHILOLOGIE This latest issue of Arthurian
Literaturecontinues the tradition of the journal, combining
critical studies with editions of primary Arthurian texts. Varied
in their linguistic and chronological coverage, the articles
dealwith major areas of Arthurian studies, from early French
romance through late medieval English chronicle to contemporary
fiction. Topics include Beroul's Tristan, Tristan de Nanteuil, the
Anglo-Norman Brut, and the Morte, while an edition of the text of
an extrait of Chretien's Erec et Enide prepared by the
eighteenth-century scholar La Curne de Sainte-Palaye offers
important insights into both scholarship on Chretien, and our
understanding of the Enlightenment. The volume is completed with an
encyclopaedic treatment of Arthurian literature, art and film
produced between 1995 and 1995, acting as an update to The New
Arthurian Encyclopedia.Contributors: RICHARD ILLINGWORTH, JANE
TAYLOR, CARLETON CARROLL, MARIA COLOMBO TIMELLI, RALUCA RADULESCU,
JULIA MARVIN, NORRIS LACY, RAYMOND THOMPSON.
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Arthurian Literature XXII (Hardcover)
Keith Busby, Roger Dalrymple; Contributions by Annette Voelfing, Ben Ramm, Fanni Bogdanow, …
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Selection of the latest research in Arthurian studies. The essays
in this volume present the most recent fruits of Arthurian
scholarship, on texts from Perlesvaus to Albrecht's Jüngerer
Titurel and the Prose BrutChronicle, together with a detailed
examination of the role of Micheau Gonnot's Arthuriad in the
evolution of Arthurian romance. The volume also includes an
investigation of Arthurian prophecy and the deposition of Richard
II. It is completed with an encyclopaedic treatment of Arthurian
literature, art and film produced between 1999 and 2004, acting as
a continuing update to The New Arthurian Encyclopedia.
Contributors: BEN RAMM, FANNI BOGDANOW, ANNETTE VOLFING, HELEN
FULTON, JULIA MARVIN, RAYMOND H. THOMPSON, NORRIS J. LACY
First modern text and translation of the prose Brut chronicle, the
most popular secular vernacular work of the middle ages. First
composed in Anglo-Norman French around the end of the thirteenth
century, the anonymous prose Brut chronicle became the most popular
secular vernacular work, and the most widespread Arthurian work, of
the later middleages in England: repeatedly expanded, revised, and
translated, it remained influential for centuries. Yet it has been
little studied, in part because of the lack of any full modern
edition. This edition of the Oldest Versionof the prose Brut,
running from the fall of Troy to the death of Henry III in 1272,
provides the Anglo-Norman text with facing-page translation and
textual apparatus, a comprehensive introduction, and extensive
explanatorynotes. It makes new contributions, on, for example, the
identification and classification of the manuscripts, the
identification and analysis of the sources [far more varied and
numerous than had been previously recognised], andthe probable
circumstances of the chronicle's composition. It will enable
scholars to make full use of this remarkable resource for the study
of Arthurian tradition, contemporary visions of British history,
popular thought about society and government in late-medieval
England, and the history of reading itself. Professor JULIA MARVIN
teaches at the University of Notre Dame.
First full-length interpretive study of the prose Brut tradition,
setting its manuscript context alongside textual analysis. The
prose Brut chronicle was the most popular vernacular work of the
late Middle Ages in England, setting a standard for vernacular
historical writing well into the age of print, but until recently
it has attracted little scholarly attention. This book combines a
study of the chronicle's sources, content, and methods of
composition, with its manuscript contexts. Using the Anglo-Norman
Oldest Version as a touchstone, it investigates the chronicle's
social ideals, its representation of women, and its distinctive
versions of such elements of British history as the Trojan
foundation myth, the ruin of the Britons, the Norman Conquest, and
Arthur and Merlin, arguing that its humane, populist vision demands
reassessment of medieval popular understandings of British history,
and of the presumed dominance of imperialism, next-worldly piety,
misogyny, and a taste for violence in late-medieval culture. The
book also analyses evidence for the production of the Anglo-Norman
Brut, and examines the ways in which its makers and users
reconstructed British history through manuscript context, ordinatio
and apparatus, annotationand illustration. Julia Marvin is a Fellow
of the Medieval Institute and Associate Professor in the Program of
Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
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