Reading La3amon's Brut : : approaches and explorations / / edited by Rosamund Allen, Jane Roberts and Carole Weinberg.

• TeilnehmendeR: Allen, Rosamund, 1942-; Roberts, Jane, 1936-; Weinberg, Carole.
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2013.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: DQR studies in literature ; 52
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (756 pages) :; illustrations, map.

Table of Contents

Introducion / 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 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 "nglisc"?: language and readerly identity in La3amon's Brut / Margaret Lamont -- Mapping the national narrative: place-name etymology in La3amon's Brut and its sources / Joanna Bellis -- The lexical field "warrior" in La3amon's Brut: a comparative analysis of the two versions / Christine Elsweiler -- The language of law: lond and hond in La3amon's Brut / Deborah Marcum -- Fri and Gri: La3amon and the legal language of Wulfstan / Scott Kleinman -- La3amon's prosody: Califula and Otho, metres apart / Erik Kooper -- Getting La3amon's Brut into sharper focus / Jane Roberts -- Julius Ceasar and the language of history in La3amon's Brut / Carole Weinberg -- La3amon's Ursula and the influence of Roman epic / Neil Cartlidge -- Constructing tonwenne: a gesture and its history / Gail Ivy Berlin -- Wace to La3amon via Waldef / Judith Weiss -- Translating England in medieval Iceland: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie and Breta sogur / Sarah Baccianti -- La3amon's Welsh / Jennifer Miller -- The wisdom of hindsight in La3amon and some contemporaries / M. Leigh Harrison -- Reading the lanscapes of La3amon's Arthur: place, meaning and intertextuality / Gareth Griffith -- La3amon's Brut and the vernacular text: widening the context / Elizabeth J. Bryan.