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Layamon's Brut

By Francoise Le Saux

Layamon's Brut

By Francoise Le Saux

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A comprehensive and objective study of Layamon's sources is long overdue. As a first step Françoise le Saux investigates the English poet's handling of his main source, Wace's Roman de Brut, to determine what principles guided the composition of the English Brut. These established, she is able to distinguish between different sorts of variation from the Roman, thereby providing norms against which to gauge the probability of further, secondary sources. Additional sources are then identified, in the various fields suggested by the poem: historical; literary; and religious writings (or tales) in Welsh, English, Latin and French and perhaps even Scandinavian.
Product details
Number of Pages:
256
Release Date:
1989-06-01
Publication Date:
1989-10-12
Publisher:
D.S.Brewer
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0859912825
ISBN13:
9780859912822
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
552 g
Height:
161 cm
Width:
240 cm
Thickness:
18 cm
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