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Laz̳amon's Brut and the Anglo-Norman vision of history / Kenneth J. Tiller.
Van Pelt Library PR2024.B783 T55 2007
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Tiller, Kenneth Jack.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Layamon, active 1200. Brut.
- Layamon.
- Arthurian romances--History and criticism.
- Arthurian romances.
- Literature and history--Great Britain.
- Literature and history.
- Great Britain.
- Great Britain--Historiography.
- Historiography.
- Physical Description:
- x, 229 pages ; 23 cm
- Other Title:
- Layamon's Brut and Anglo-Norman vision of history
- Place of Publication:
- Cardiff : University of Wales Press, 2007.
- Contents:
- Introduction: Lazamon's Brut and the translation of twelfth-century history 1
- History as translation 1
- Critical issues in Lazamon studies 22
- 1 Providential historiography and the translation of insular history 39
- Bede and the colonization of Britain: the Historia Ecclesiastica as historiographic translation 41
- Anglo-Norman appropriation of Bedan historiography 48
- Variant historiographies: Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace and Angevin historiography 64
- Lazamon and providential historiography 81
- 2 Translating the text: the historian-translator and the body of the book 97
- Medieval masculinity and the translation of history 99
- The body of the book in Lazamon's prologue 103
- 'Leofliche biheold': historical authority and the masculine gaze 110
- Translation of text as translation of history within the Brut 117
- 3 Translating the land: Lazamon's historian-rulers 127
- Conquest, colonization and insular place-names 129
- Territorial translation and the passage of dominion 138
- Norman ni[Characters not reproducible]-craften and the land in context 146
- Heresy and martyrdom: the missionary as conqueror-translator 147
- 4 Translating the people: the body of the king as historian and historical text 173
- Translating the ruler - translating the people 179
- Translating Arthur: the king as text and translator 185
- The escaped ruler and the untranslatable trace 202.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780708319024
- 0708319025
- OCLC:
- 69022219
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