Arthur, Origins, Identities and the Legendary History of Britain / / Jean Blacker.

• Superior document: Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 25
• VerfasserIn: Blacker, Jean,
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024.; ©2024
• Year of Publication: 2024
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Explorations in Medieval Culture ; 25.; Late Antiquity and Medieval Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2023.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (579 pages)

Geoffrey of Monmouth's immensely popular Latin prose Historia regum Britanniae (c. 1138), followed by French verse translations - Wace's Roman de Brut (1155) and anonymous versions including the Royal Brut , the Munich, Harley, and Egerton Bruts (12th -14th c.), initiated Arthurian narrati...

Table of Contents

• Acknowledgements
• Introduction
•  1 Contextualizing Geoffrey's Historia, Arthur, and the Early French Brut Tradition
•  2 Structure of Arthur, Origins, Identities
• 1 Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae: Part 1
•  1 Introduction
•  2 Description of Britain, Arrival of Brutus, Foundation Myth: Geoffrey and His Predecessors
•  3 Adventus Saxonum and the Passage of Dominion
• 2 Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae: Part 2
•  1 Geoffrey of Monmouth: Adventus Saxonum and Preview of Other Landmark Events
•  2 King Arthur
•  3 Post Arthur: Gormund's Donation, Augustine's Conversion of the English, the Passage of Dominion (Reprise) - Cadwallader and the Final Days
•  4 Postscript: Geoffrey's Ideas on Multiple Ethnicities, Nationalities, Allegiances - including His Prejudices Interwoven with Origin Stories as Part of His Endeavor to Negotiate Identities
• 3 The First Variant Version
•  1 Introduction
•  2 Dating and Authorship of the First Variant Version
•  3 The Description of Britain and the Foundation Myth
•  4 Adventus Saxonum
•  5 King Arthur
•  6 Stages of the Passage of Dominion
•  7 Cadwallader and the Final Passage
•  8 Conclusion
• 4 Wace's Roman de Brut, Part 1
•  Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis
•  1 Introduction
•  2 Setting the Stage: Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis
•  3 The Prologue to the Estoire des Engleis
•  4 The Foundation Myth, the Adventus Saxonum, and the Passage of Dominion
•  5 The Epilogue to the Estoire des Engleis
• 5 Wace's Roman de Brut, Part 2
•  1 Wace's Roman de Brut: Organization of the Chapter
•  2 Foundation Myth
•  3 The Adventus Saxonum
•  4 King Arthur
•  5 Gormund's Donation and the Passage of Dominion; Gormund and Arthur as Leaders
•  6 Augustine's Conversion of the English
•  7 Cadwallader and the "Final Days"
•  8 Conclusion: The Role of Language, Ethnic/Cultural Separatism, and the Characterization of Arthur as Insider/Outsider, Barbarian and Civilizer
• 6 The Anonymous Verse Brut Tradition
•  1 General Introduction
•  2 Contextualizing the Anonymous Verse Bruts: Wace and Authorial Voice
•  3 Overview: Anonymous Verse Bruts
•  4 Common Content of the Anonymous Verse Bruts Relative to the Historia and Wace
•  5 Anonymous Verse Bruts
•  6 Chapter Conclusion
• Conclusion
• Appendix 1: Wace's Roman de Brut in Its Manuscript Contexts
• Appendix 2: Anonymous Verse Bruts
• Appendix 3: Arthur's "Twelve Battles": Comparative Chart
• Bibliography
• Index.