The revolt of Owain Glyndwr in Medieval English chronicles / Alicia Marchant.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Marchant, Alicia.

Contributor:

Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Glendower, Owen, approximately 1354-1416.

Glendower, Owen.

Henry IV, King of England, 1367-1413.

Henry.

Historiography--Great Britain--History--To 1500.

Historiography.

Nationalism.

Great Britain.

History.

Nationalism--Wales.

National characteristics.

Narration (Rhetoric).

Discourse analysis, Narrative.

Space and time.

Wales--History--1284-1536.

Wales.

Physical Description:

xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

York [England] : York Medieval Press ; Woodbridge, Suffolk ; Rochester, New York : in association with the Boydell Press, 2014.

Summary:

"Studies the representations of the revolt in English chronicles, from 1400 up to 1580. It focuses on the narrative strategies employed, offers a new reading of the texts as literary constructs, and explores the information they present."--Back cover

Contents:

Introduction: Imagining Owain Glyndŵr and the Welsh Rebellion: English Medieval chronicles in context

Part 1. Narrative strategies and literary traditions

'As you shalle heare': the role of the narrator

'Eo tempore': Chronological structure and representations of time

'Ay in hilles and in mounteynes': spatial structure and representations of space

Part 2. Imagining the rebellion

'With praies and bloudy handes returned again to Wales': imagining individuals in the narratives of the revolt

'Barefooted buffoons': imagining the Welsh in the narratives of the revolt

'That bareine, vnfertile and depopulate countrey': imagining Wales in the narratives of the revolt

Conclusions: A multiplicity of voices: readint the narratives of the Welsh revolt.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Constance L. Rosenthal Book Fund.

ISBN:

1903153557

9781903153550

OCLC:

873007059

Publisher Number:

99961300943