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For La3amon, or Lawman (both forms are used), a parish priest living on the Welsh March c.1200, the criteria of language, race and territory all provided ways of defining the nation state, which is why his Brut commands a diverse readership to-day. The range of view-points in this book reflects the...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Allen, Rosamund, 1942-, Roberts, Jane, Weinberg, Carole
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2013.
Colección:DQR studies in literature ; 52.
Temas:
Layamon, > active 1200. > Brut.
Otho Layamon.
Brut (Layamon)
Otho Layamon
To 1500
Arthurian romances > Criticism, Textual.
Manuscripts, Medieval > England.
Manuscrits médiévaux > Angleterre.
POETRY > English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh.
Arthurian romances
Manuscripts, Medieval
Literature and history > Great Britain > History > To 1500.
England
Great Britain
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction / Rosamund Allen, Jane Roberts and Carole Weinberg
  • Did Lawman nod, or is it we that yawn? / Rosamund Allen
  • The Brut as Saxon literature: the new philologists read Lawman / Haruko Momma
  • "þe tiden of þisse londe": finding and losing Wales in La3amon's Brut / Simon Meecham-Jones
  • The Severn: barrier or highway? / Andrew Wehner
  • The political notion of kingship in La3amon's Brut / Eric Stanley
  • Queer masculiinty in Lawman's Brut / John Brennan
  • La3amon's leir: language, succession, and history / Kenneth J. Tiller
  • Losing the past: Cezar's moment of time in Lawman's Brut / Joseph D. Parry
  • Lawman, Bede, and the context of slavery / Daniel Donoghue
  • Drinking of blood, burning of women / Andrew Breeze
  • The coronation of Arthur and Guenevere in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, Wace's Roman de Brut, and Lawman's Brut / Charlotte A.T. Wulf
  • La3amon's gestures: body language in the Brut / Barry Windeatt
  • Conquest by word: the meeting of language in La3amon's Brut / Hannah McKendrick Bailey
  • A tale of two cities: London and Winchester in La3amon's Brut / Ian Kirby
  • When are Saxon's "Ænglisc"?: language and readerly identity in La3amon's Brut / Margaret Lamont
  • Mapping the national narrative: place-name etymology in La3amon's Brut and its sources / Joanna Bellis
  • The lexical field "warrior" in La3amon's Brut: a comparative analysis of the two versions / Christine Elsweiler
  • The language of law: lond and hond in La3amon's Brut / Deborah Marcum
  • Frið and Grið: La3amon and the legal language of Wulfstan / Scott Kleinman
  • La3amon's prosody: Califula and Otho, metres apart / Erik Kooper
  • Getting La3amon's Brut into sharper focus / Jane Roberts
  • Julius Ceasar and the language of history in La3amon's Brut / Carole Weinberg
  • La3amon's Ursula and the influence of Roman epic / Neil Cartlidge
  • Constructing tonwenne: a gesture and its history / Gail Ivy Berlin
  • Wace to La3amon via Waldef / Judith Weiss
  • Translating England in medieval Iceland: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie and Breta sogur / Sarah Baccianti
  • La3amon's Welsh / Jennifer Miller
  • The wisdom of hindsight in La3amon and some contemporaries / M. Leigh Harrison
  • Reading the lanscapes of La3amon's Arthur: place, meaning and intertextuality / Gareth Griffith
  • La3amon's Brut and the vernacular text: widening the context / Elizabeth J. Bryan.

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