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Author: Wace
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192871269
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Languages : en
Pages : 321
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This volume provides an accessible, English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons.
Author: Wace
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192871269
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 321
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This volume provides an accessible, English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons.
Author: Wace
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 0192699024
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 365
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'Whoever wishes to hear about, and to know about, kings and heirs, about who first ruled England and which kings it had, Master Wace, who is telling the truth about this, has translated this.' Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) can be seen as the gateway to the history of the Britons for both French and English speakers of the time, and thus to Arthurian history, as the first complete Old French adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain (late 1130s), in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons. The Roman de Brut was a foundational work, an inspiration for a series of anonymous verse Bruts of the late twelfth and thirteenth centuries and for the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut -- the most widely read French vernacular text on this material in medieval England -- as well as a forerunner of the Middle English Brut tradition, including Layamon's Brut (c. 1200). Wace's poem thus inaugurates and shapes Brut traditions, including Arthurian tales, in verse and in prose, in historiography and in literature, including Wace's innovation of King Arthur's Round Table. This volume contains an English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, accompanied by an introduction and notes, a select bibliography, a summary of the text, a list of manuscripts, and indexes of personal and geographical names.
Author: Margaret Evah Houck
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Languages : en
Pages : 2
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Author: Wace
Publisher: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies (ACMRS)
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Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 472
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Author: Wace
Publisher: The Floating Press
ISBN: 1776535278
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 166
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The poet Wace produced a remarkable epic poem known as "Roman de Brut" in the 1100s. The poem combined a sweeping history of Britain, along with elements of Arthurian legend and folktales. This twentieth-century translation of Wace's poem provides historical context for the work, as well as a prose rendering that is accessible to modern-day readers.
Author: Margaret Houck
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Author: Elspeth Diana Yeo
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 4
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Author: Wace
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Category : Anglo-Norman dialect
Languages : en
Pages : 0
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Author: Wace
Publisher: Good Press
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Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 147
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'The Brut' or 'Roman de Brut' by the poet Wace is a loose and expanded translation in almost 15,000 lines of the Norman-French verse of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Latin History of the Kings of Britain. Its genre is equivocal, being more than a chronicle but not quite a fully-fledged romance.The book narrates a largely fictional version of Britain's story from its settlement by Brutus, a refugee from Troy, who gives the poem its name, through a thousand years of pseudohistory, including the story of king Leir, up to the Roman conquest, the introduction of Christianity, and the legends of sub-Roman Britain, ending with the reign of the 7th-century king Cadwallader. Especially prominent is its account of the life of King Arthur, the first in any vernacular language, which instigated and influenced a whole school of French Arthurian romances dealing with the Round Table – here making its first appearance in literature – and with the adventures of its various knights.
