Distinctly interdisciplinary, Kingship, Conquest and Patria brings together French and Welsh studies with literary and historical analysis, and genre with questions of medieval colonialisms and national writing. Examining eight centuries worth of insular contintental literature, the author places the twelfth and thirteenth century development of Arthurian romance in the fraught historical context of the time. The book contextualizes how French Arthurian romance and Welsh rhamant collectively revised the figure of King Arthur created by earlier tradition and culminates in a focus on the...

First published in 2005. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.