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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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Smith, Joshua Byron
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc., 2017-07-07 00:00:00.0.
Series:Middle Ages series.
Subjects:
Map, Walter, > active 1200.
Map, Walter, > active 1200. > De nugis curialium.
De nugis curialium (Map, Walter)
1100-1500
Latin literature, Medieval and modern > England > History and criticism.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > History and criticism.
English literature > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Celtic influences.
Littérature latine médiévale et moderne > Angleterre > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Histoire et critique.
Littérature anglaise > 1100-1500 (Moyen anglais) > Influence celtique.
FOREIGN LANGUAGE STUDY > Latin.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
English literature > Middle English.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern.
England.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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