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Walter Map and the Matter of Britain
ISBN: 9780812249323 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. 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 spurious, is it not, in some ways, implausible? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer these and other questions in the first English-language monograph on Walter Map--and in so doing, he offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain, including... Why would the sprawling thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer fr... |
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A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth
ISBN: 9789004405288 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 578 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 22 dni roboczych. A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects of his work. Arguably the most influential secular writer of medieval Britain, Geoffrey (d. 1154) popularized Arthurian literature and left an indelible mark on European romance, history, and genealogy. Despite this outsized influence, Geoffrey’s own life, background, and motivations are little understood. The volume situates his life and works within their immediate historical context, and frames them within current critical discussion across...
A Companion to Geoffrey of Monmouth brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to provide an updated scholarly introduction to all aspects o...
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889,94 zł |