Reading Lay̳amon's Brut: approaches and explorations

by Allen, Rosamund Roberts, Jane Weinberg, Carole

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Full title :Reading Lay̳amon's Brut : approaches and explorations / edited by Rosamund Allen, Jane Roberts and Carole Weinberg.

Summary

For Layamon, or Lawman (both forms are used), a parish priest living on the Welsh March c.1200, the criteria of language, race and territory all provided ways of defining the nation state, which is why his Brut commands a diverse readership to-day. The range of view-points in this book reflects the breadth and complexity of Layamon's own vision of the way his world is moulded by past conquests and racial tensions. The Brut is an open-ended narrative of Britain, its peoples, and its place-names as they changed under new rulers, and tells, for the first time in English, the rise and fall of Arthur, highlighting his role in the unfolding history of Britain. Beginning with its legendary founder, Brutus, the story is imagined anew, and although it concludes with an Anglo-Saxon kingdom, Layamon's closing words remind us that changes will come: " i-wurðe þet iwurðe: i-wurðe Godes wille. Amen." This book offers detailed discussion and new perspectives.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Rodopi
Place of Publication:Amsterdam
Language:eng
Publication Date:2013.

Notes

The name Lay̳amon is printed on the title page, etc., with the Middle English letter yogh.

The Physical Object

Description:768 pages : : illustrations, map ; : 24 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9789042036949, 904203694X
oclc:ocn855911562
LC Classification:PR2027
Dewey Decimal:810/820

Introduction / Rosamund Allen, Jane Roberts and Carole Weinberg -- Did Lawman nod, or is it we that yawn? / Rosamund Allen -- The Brut as Saxon literature: the new philologists read Lawman / Haruko Momma -- "pe tiden of pisse londe": finding and losing Wales in Lay̳amon's Brut / Simon Meecham-Jones -- The Severn: barrier or highway? / Andrew Wehner -- The political notion of kingship in Lay̳amon's Brut / Eric Stanley -- Queer masculiinty in Lawman's Brut / John Brennan -- Lay̳amon's leir: language, succession, and history / Kenneth J. Tiller -- Losing the past: Cezar's moment of time in Lawman's Brut / Joseph D. Parry -- Lawman, Bede, and the context of slavery / Daniel Donoghue -- Drinking of blood, burning of women / Andrew Breeze -- The coronation of Arthur and Guenevere in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, Wace's Roman de Brut, and Lawman's Brut / Charlotte A.T. Wulf -- Lay̳amon's gestures: body language in the Brut / Barry Windeatt -- Conquest by word: the meeting of language in Lay̳amon's Brut / Hannah McKendrick Bailey -- A tale of two cities: London and Winchester in Lay̳amon's Brut / Ian Kirby -- When are Saxon's "Ænglisc"?: language and readerly identity in Lay̳…