E-Book, Englisch, 243 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: The New Middle Ages
Faletra Wales and the Medieval Colonial Imagination
2014
ISBN: 978-1-137-39103-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
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The Matters of Britain in the Twelfth Century
E-Book, Englisch, 243 Seiten, eBook
Reihe: The New Middle Ages
ISBN: 978-1-137-39103-2
Verlag: Palgrave Macmillan US
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and the Welsh.
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Introduction: The Scrap-Heap of History 1. Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Matter of Wales 2. Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden: Courtly Britain and Its Others 3. Chrétien de Troyes, Wales, and the Matiere of Britain 4. Crooked Greeks: Hybridity, History, and Gerald of Wales Epilogue: The Birds of Rhiannon




