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Author : Thomas Gray
Release : 1836
Genre : Great Britain
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Book Synopsis Scalacronica by : Thomas Gray
Download or read book Scalacronica written by Thomas Gray. This book was released on 1836. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : John Spence
Release : 2013
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Reimagining History in Anglo-Norman Prose Chronicles by : John Spence
Download or read book Reimagining History in Anglo-Norman Prose Chronicles written by John Spence. This book was released on 2013. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The medieval Anglo-Norman prose chronicles are fascinating hybrids of history, legends and romance. Their prime subject is the history of England, but they also shed much light on other networks of influence, such as those between families and religious houses. This book studies the essential characteristics of the genre for the first time, situating Anglo-Norman prose chronicles within the multilingual cultures of late medieval England. It considers the chronicles' treatment of the ""legendary history of Britain"", legends about English heroes, accounts of the Norman Conquest, and histories o.
Author : Stephen Spinks
Release : 2019-12-15
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 086/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Robert the Bruce by : Stephen Spinks
Download or read book Robert the Bruce written by Stephen Spinks. This book was released on 2019-12-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A new and revealing portrait of the king behind the legend during the turmoil of the First Scottish Wars of Independence, based on primary sources.
Author : Nigel Saul
Release : 2000
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 764/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fourteenth Century England by : Nigel Saul
Download or read book Fourteenth Century England written by Nigel Saul. This book was released on 2000. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Biennial volumes of new research on an eventful century coloured by the Plantagenet dynasty.
Author : Richard James Moll
Release : 2003-01-01
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 220/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Before Malory by : Richard James Moll
Download or read book Before Malory written by Richard James Moll. This book was released on 2003-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although most modern scholars doubt the historicity of King Arthur, parts of the legend were accepted as fact throughout the Middle Ages. Medieval accounts of the historical Arthur, however, present a very different king from the romances that are widely studied today. Richard Moll examines a wide variety of historical texts including Thomas Gray's Scalacronica and John Hardyng's Chronicle to explore the relationship between the Arthurian chronicles and the romances. He demonstrates how competing and conflicting traditions interacted with one another, and how writers and readers of Arthurian texts negotiated a complex textual tradition. Moll asserts that the enormous variety and number of existing chronicles demonstrates the immense popularity of the historical Arthur in medieval England. Since these chronicles were the dominant source of Arthurian information for the late medieval reader, they provide an invaluable, and neglected, interpretive context for modern readers of Malory and other later medieval romances. The first monograph to look at the impact of these historical texts on Arthurian literature, Before Malory is also the first to show how canonical vernacular romances interacted with chronicle texts that have since dropped out of the canon.
