Reading Layamon's Brut : : approaches and explorations / / edited by Rosamund Allen, Jane Roberts and Carole Weinberg.
For Layamon, 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...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Rodopi,, 2013. |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | DQR studies in literature ;
52 DQR Studies in Literature 52. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (756 pages) :; illustrations, map. |
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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©ʻ and Gri©ʻ: 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.