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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Smith, Joshua Byron
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017-07-07 00:00:00.0.
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.