The Middle Ages Series : Walter Map and the Matter of Britain.
Why would the thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer this and other questions and offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabit...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.,
2017-07-07 00:00:00.0.
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Colección: | Middle Ages series.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Translations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Walter Map, Wales, and romance
- Chapter 2. Works Frozen in revision
- Chapter 3. Glosses and a Contrived Book
- Chapter 4. From Herlething to Herla
- Chapter 5. The Welsh-Latin sources of the De nugis curialium
- Chapter 6. Walter Map in the Archives and the Transmission of the Matter of Britain
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments.