Walter Map and the Matter of Britain
Joshua Byron SmithWhy would the thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer this and other questions and offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain circulated in England.
Why would the thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer this and other questions and offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain circulated in England.
Yıl:
2017
Yayımcı:
University of Pennsylvania Press
Dil:
english
Sayfalar:
272
ISBN 10:
0812294165
ISBN 13:
9780812294163
Dosya:
PDF, 1.22 MB
IPFS:
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english, 2017