Reading Layamon's Brut: approaches and explorations

by Allen, Rosamund Roberts, Jane Weinberg, Carole

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For La3amon, 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 La3amon'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 …

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

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Publication Date:2013.

Publication Statements

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

Notes

In the title, the "y" character in "Layamon" is actually the Middle English "yogh" character (which may be mistaken for the number "3").

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Description:1 online resource

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ISBN:9401209529, 9789401209526
oclc:ocn859382154
LC Classification:PR2024.B783
Dewey Decimal:821/.1

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 -- "þe tiden of þisse londe": finding and losing Wales in La3amon's Brut / Simon Meecham-Jones -- The Severn: barrier or highway? / Andrew Wehner -- The political notion of kingship in La3amon's Brut / Eric Stanley -- Queer masculiinty in Lawman's Brut / John Brennan -- La3amon'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 -- La3amon's gestures: body language in the Brut / Barry Windeatt -- Conquest by word: the meeting of language in La3amon's Brut / Hannah McKendrick Bailey -- A tale of two cities: London and Winchester in La3amon's Brut / Ian Kirby -- When are Saxon's "Ænglisc"?: language and readerly identity in La3…

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Arthurian romances Arthurian romances -- Criticism, Textual Brut (Layamon) Criticism, interpretation, etc England Great Britain History Layamon Literature and history -- History -- To… Manuscripts, Medieval Manuscripts, Medieval -- England Manuscrits médiévaux -- Angleterre Otho Layamon POETRY -- English, Irish, Scottish, Wel… To 1500