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Chronicles of England. --- Prose Brut --- Brut (Medieval prose chronicle) --- Great Britain --- History --- Non-fiction --- Medieval Dutch literature --- Grande-Bretagne --- Great Britain. --- Histoire --- Early works to 1800.
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Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character) --- English language --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Middle Ages --- Texts --- Sources --- Manuscripts --- Chronicles of England --- Manuscripts. --- Great Britain --- History --- Sources.
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The prose Brut chronicle was the most popular vernacular work of the late Middle Ages in England, setting a standard for vernacular historical writing well into the age of print, but until recently it has attracted little scholarly attention. This book combines a study of the chronicle's sources, content, and methods of composition, with its manuscript contexts. Using the Anglo-Norman Oldest Version as a touchstone, it investigates the chronicle's social ideals, its representation of women, and its distinctive versions of such elements of British history as the Trojan foundation myth, the ruin of the Britons, the Norman Conquest, and Arthur and Merlin, arguing that its humane, populist vision demands reassessment of medieval popular understandings of British history, and of the presumed dominance of imperialism, next-worldly piety, misogyny, and a taste for violence in late-medieval culture. The book also analyses evidence for the production of the Anglo-Norman Brut, and examines the ways in which its makers and users reconstructed British history through manuscript context, ordinatio and apparatus, annotation and illustration.Julia Marvin is a Fellow of the Medieval Institute and Associate Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.
Manuscripts, Anglo-Norman. --- Anglo-Norman manuscripts --- Brutus the Trojan --- Brut --- Brutus of Troy --- Bryttos, King --- Chronicles of England. --- Prose Brut --- Brut (Medieval prose chronicle) --- Great Britain --- History --- Brutus the Trojan (Legendary character) --- To 1500 --- To 1485 --- Brute, --- Brutus, --- Bryttos,
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The histories of chronicles composed in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and onwards, with a focus on texts belonging to or engaging with the Prose Brut tradition, are thefocus of this volume. The contributors examine the composition, dissemination and reception of historical texts written in Anglo-Norman, Latin and English, including the Prose Brut chronicle (c. 1300 and later), Castleford's Chronicle (c. 1327), and Nicholas Trevet's Les Cronicles (c. 1334), looking at questions of the processes of writing, rewriting, printing and editing history. They cross traditional boundaries of subject and period, taking multi-disciplinary approaches to their studies in order to underscore the (shifting) historical, social and political contexts inwhich medieval English chronicles were used and read from the fourteenth century through to the present day.
As such, the volume honours the pioneering work of the late Professor Lister M. Matheson, whose research in this area demonstrated that a full understanding of medieval historical literature demands attention to both the content of the works in question and to the material circumstances of producing those works.
Jaclyn Rajsic is a Lecturer in Medieval Literature in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London; Erik Kooper taught Old and Middle English at Utrecht University; until his retirement in 2007; Dominique Hoche is an Associate Professor at West Liberty University in West Virginia.
Contributors: Elizabeth J. Bryan, Caroline D. Eckhardt, A.S.G. Edwards, Dan Embree, Alexander L. Kaufman, Edward Donald Kennedy, Erik Kooper, Julia Marvin, William Marx, Krista A. Murchison, Heather Pagan, Jaclyn Rajsic, Christine M. Rose, NeilWeijer
Manuscripts, Medieval --- 091 =20 --- 091:930.21 --- Medieval manuscripts --- Manuscripts --- 091 =20 Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- Handschriftenkunde. Handschriftencatalogi--Engels --- History. --- Handschriften i.v.m. historiografie. Geschiedenis van de geschiedwetenschap --- Great Britain --- History --- Historiography. --- Sources. --- Manuscripts, English (Middle). --- Manuscripts, Medieval. --- Middle Ages --- Sources --- Manuscripts. --- Chronicles of England. --- To 1485. --- England. --- Great Britain. --- Manuscripts, English (Middle) --- Mss Grande-Bretagne --- Middle Ages - Sources - Manuscripts --- Manuscripts, Medieval - England --- Great Britain - History - To 1485 - Sources --- To 1485 --- English manuscripts (Middle) --- Manuscripts, Middle English --- Middle English manuscripts --- Dark Ages --- History, Medieval --- Medieval history --- Medieval period --- World history, Medieval --- World history --- Civilization, Medieval --- Medievalism --- Renaissance --- Prose Brut --- Brut (Medieval prose chronicle) --- Troy. --- anthropology. --- background. --- book. --- context. --- early print. --- fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. --- history. --- literary analysis. --- manuscript studies. --- medieval studies. --- medieval writing. --- overview. --- research.
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