Author: Geoffroy Gaimar
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Category : Anglo-Norman poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Lestorie Des Engles Solum la Translacion Geffrei Gaimar
Author: Geoffroy Gaimar
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Category : Anglo-Norman poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Anglo-Norman poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 474
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Legend of Ernulf
Author: Geffrei Gaimar
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Category : Anglo-Norman poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Category : Anglo-Norman poetry
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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L'estoire des Engleis
Author: Geoffroy Gaimar
Publisher:
ISBN: 9780384175563
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Publisher:
ISBN: 9780384175563
Category : Great Britain
Languages : en
Pages : 307
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L'Estoire Des Engleis ... Edited by Alexander Bell
Author: Geoffroi GAIMAR
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Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Languages : en
Pages : 307
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Estoire des Engleis
Author: Geffrei Gaimar
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191570672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Geffrei Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis is the oldest surviving example of historiography in the French vernacular. It was written in Lincolnshire c.1136-37 and is, in large part, an Anglo-Norman verse adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Its narrative covers the period from the sixth century until the death of the Conqueror's son William Rufus in 1100. This is an important text in historiographic terms, less as an historical source than as an early example of informative literature written in a secular perspective for a predominantly baronial audience. It illustrates the multilingualism and multiculturalism of twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Britain, and shows the descendants of the Norman conquerors seeking to integrate themselves culturally into their adoptive homeland during the 1130s. It also ranks among the earliest extant witnesses of the rise of courtly literature in French, and of named female literary patronage. This edition offers a critical text of one of the chronicle's four extant manuscripts. There is an introduction placing the poem in its social and literary contexts, followed by the medieval text, edited according to critical interventionist principles and comprising 6532 rhyming octosyllables. A facing modern English prose translation, the first concern of which is accuracy, aims also to convey the tone and style of the original rather than provide a strictly literal rendering of it. The extensive explanatory notes to the text are followed by a bibliography and a complete index of place and personal names.
Publisher: OUP Oxford
ISBN: 0191570672
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 552
Book Description
Geffrei Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis is the oldest surviving example of historiography in the French vernacular. It was written in Lincolnshire c.1136-37 and is, in large part, an Anglo-Norman verse adaptation of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Its narrative covers the period from the sixth century until the death of the Conqueror's son William Rufus in 1100. This is an important text in historiographic terms, less as an historical source than as an early example of informative literature written in a secular perspective for a predominantly baronial audience. It illustrates the multilingualism and multiculturalism of twelfth-century Anglo-Norman Britain, and shows the descendants of the Norman conquerors seeking to integrate themselves culturally into their adoptive homeland during the 1130s. It also ranks among the earliest extant witnesses of the rise of courtly literature in French, and of named female literary patronage. This edition offers a critical text of one of the chronicle's four extant manuscripts. There is an introduction placing the poem in its social and literary contexts, followed by the medieval text, edited according to critical interventionist principles and comprising 6532 rhyming octosyllables. A facing modern English prose translation, the first concern of which is accuracy, aims also to convey the tone and style of the original rather than provide a strictly literal rendering of it. The extensive explanatory notes to the text are followed by a bibliography and a complete index of place and personal names.
A History of English Literature
Author: Emile Legouis
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
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A History of English Literature: The Middle Ages & the Renascence (650-1660) by Émile Legouis, translated from the French by Helen Douglas Irvine
Author: Emile Legouis
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 416
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Nouvelle méthode pour apprendre l'anglais ... contenant l'histoire de Rasselas ....
Author: Samuel Johnson
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Languages : fr
Pages : 790
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Languages : fr
Pages : 790
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King Stephen
Author: Donald Matthew
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852852726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The reign of King Stephen (1135-54) has usually been seen as uniquely disasterous in the history of the medieval England -- a counrty riven by a civil war between Stephen and his first cousin, the Empress Matilda, and by an anarchy during which overmighty barons laid waste the country and 'Christ and his saints slept'. Donald Matthew challenges this picture. By questioning such melodramatic assumptions, and by looking clearly at what can and cannot be known about Stephen, he brings new light to both the king and his reign. He shows that much of what has been written about Stephen has been based on the selective use of the testimony of hostile witnesses, and has been shot through by wishful thinking or by the political or historical prejudices of the day. King Stephen is an important, well-written and timely reinterpretation of the crisis of Norman government.
Publisher: A&C Black
ISBN: 9781852852726
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 342
Book Description
The reign of King Stephen (1135-54) has usually been seen as uniquely disasterous in the history of the medieval England -- a counrty riven by a civil war between Stephen and his first cousin, the Empress Matilda, and by an anarchy during which overmighty barons laid waste the country and 'Christ and his saints slept'. Donald Matthew challenges this picture. By questioning such melodramatic assumptions, and by looking clearly at what can and cannot be known about Stephen, he brings new light to both the king and his reign. He shows that much of what has been written about Stephen has been based on the selective use of the testimony of hostile witnesses, and has been shot through by wishful thinking or by the political or historical prejudices of the day. King Stephen is an important, well-written and timely reinterpretation of the crisis of Norman government.
A History of English Literature
Author: William Vaughn Moody
Publisher:
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Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : English literature
Languages : en
Pages : 410
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