Walter Map and the Matter of Britain / / Joshua Byron Smith.
Why would the sprawling thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands known for his stinging satire, religious skepticism, ghost stories, and irrepressible wit? And why, though the attribution is spu...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Philadelphia : : University of Pennsylvania Press, , [2017] ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | The Middle Ages Series
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Abbreviations
- A Note on Translations
- Introduction
- Chapter 1. Walter Map, Wales, and romance
- Chapter 2. Works Frozen in revision
- Chapter 3. Glosses and a Contrived Book
- Chapter 4. From Herlething to Herla
- Chapter 5. The Welsh-Latin sources of the De nugis curialium
- Chapter 6. Walter Map in the Archives and the Transmission of the Matter of Britain
- Epilogue
- Appendix
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
- Acknowledgments