Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature

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Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708326587
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature by : Oliver James Padel

Download or read book Arthur in Medieval Welsh Literature written by Oliver James Padel and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-05-30 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although the legends of Arthur have been popular throughout Europe from the Middle Ages onwards, the earliest references to Arthur are to be found in Welsh literature, starting with the Welsh-Latin Historia Brittonum dating from the ninth century. By the twelfth century, Arthur was a renowned figure wherever Welsh and her sister languages were spoken. O. J. Padel now provides an overall survey of medieval Welsh literary references to Arthur and emphasizes the importance of understanding the character and purpose of the texts in which allusions to Arthur occur. Texts from different genres are considered together, and shed new light on the use that different authors make of the multifaceted figure of Arthur – from the folk legend associated with magic and animals to the literary hero, soldier and defender of country and faith. Other figures associated with Arthur, such as Cai, Bedwyr and Gwenhwyfar, are also discussed here.

Delw y Byd: A Medieval Welsh Encyclopedia

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Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 178188949X
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (818 download)

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Book Synopsis Delw y Byd: A Medieval Welsh Encyclopedia by : Natalia I. Petrovskaia

Download or read book Delw y Byd: A Medieval Welsh Encyclopedia written by Natalia I. Petrovskaia and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2020-12-31 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition presents extracts from the medieval Welsh encyclopedia Delw y Byd. A medieval Welsh translation of the first book of the Latin encyclopedia known as Imago Mundi, written by Honorius Augustodunensis in the first quarter of the twelfth century, this text is a fine example of the ties between the intellectual world of Europe and Wales in the late-twelfth/early-thirteenth centuries, when the text was translated, ties that brought across the scientific knowledge based on Roman and late antique sources. Structured according to the four elements: earth, water, air and fire, the text presents geographical, anthropological, and astronomical information, often with historical and mythological contexts. The present edition follows that organizational principle, providing a glimpse into the medieval understanding of the overarching structure of the universe. The text is presented in its historical and literary context, with an updated account of its transmission. A commentary on the scientific context of the most interesting passages is provided, as well as a linguistic one. The edition also provides an overview of the variants by printing parallel texts based on all surviving medieval manuscript witnesses for a number of selected chapters. This includes sections of two previously unpublished medieval witnesses of the text. The accompanying glossary includes vocabulary from all extracts included in the edition.

Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature

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Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199588651
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (995 download)

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Book Synopsis Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature by : Patrick Sims-Williams

Download or read book Irish Influence on Medieval Welsh Literature written by Patrick Sims-Williams and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2011 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Patrick Sims-Williams provides an approach to some of the issues surrounding Irish literary influence on Wales, situating them in the context of the rest of medieval literature and international folklore.

Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales

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ISBN 13 : 9780814213223
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (132 download)

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Book Synopsis Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales by : Paul Russell

Download or read book Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales written by Paul Russell and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reading Ovid in Medieval Wales provides the first complete edition and discussion of the earliest surviving fragment of Ovid's Ars amatoria, or The Art of Love, glossed mainly in Latin but also in Old Welsh. This study discusses the significance of the manuscript for classical studies and how it was absorbed into the classical Ovidian tradition.

The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales

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Publisher : Univ of California Press
ISBN 13 : 0520974662
Total Pages : 212 pages
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Book Synopsis The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales by : Patrick K. Ford

Download or read book The Mabinogi and Other Medieval Welsh Tales written by Patrick K. Ford and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2019-09-24 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four stories that make up the Mabinogi, along with three additional tales from the same tradition, form this collection and compose the core of the ancient Welsh mythological cycle. Included are only those stories that have remained unadulterated by the influence of the French Arthurian romances, providing a rare, authentic selection of the finest works in medieval Celtic literature. This landmark edition translated by Patrick K. Ford is a literary achievement of the highest order.

The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature

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Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107106761
Total Pages : 857 pages
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Book Synopsis The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature by : Geraint Evans

Download or read book The Cambridge History of Welsh Literature written by Geraint Evans and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-04-18 with total page 857 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a comprehensive single-volume history of literature in the two major languages of Wales from post-Roman to post-devolution Britain.

Arthur in Early Welsh Poetry

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Publisher : MHRA
ISBN 13 : 1781889082
Total Pages : 249 pages
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Book Synopsis Arthur in Early Welsh Poetry by : Nerys Ann Jones

Download or read book Arthur in Early Welsh Poetry written by Nerys Ann Jones and published by MHRA. This book was released on 2019-07-12 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For over a thousand years, Arthur has had widespread appeal and influence like no other literary character or historical figure. Yet, despite the efforts of modern scholars, the earliest references to Arthurian characters are still shrouded in uncertainty. They are mostly found in poetic texts scattered throughout the four great compilations of early and medieval Welsh literature produced between 1250 and 1350. Whilst some are thought to predate their manuscript sources by several centuries, many of these poems are notoriously difficult to date. None of them are narrative in nature and very few focus solely on Arthurian material but they are characterised by an allusiveness which would have been appreciated by their intended audiences in the courts of princes and noblemen the length and breadth of Wales. They portray Arthur in a variety of roles: as a great leader of armies, a warrior with extraordinary powers, slayer of magical creatures, rescuer of prisoners from the Otherworld, a poet and the subject of prophecy. They also testify to the possibility of lost tales about him, his father, Uthr, his son, Llachau, his wife, Gwenhwyfar, and one of his companions, Cai, and associate him with a wide array of both legendary and historical figures. Arthur in Early Welsh Poetry, the fourth volume in the MHRA Library of Medieval Welsh Literature series, provides discussion of each of the references to Arthurian characters in early Welsh poetic sources together with an image from the earliest manuscript, a transliteration, a comprehensive edition, a translation (where possible) and a word-list. The nine most significant texts are interpreted in more detail with commentary on metrical, linguistic and stylistic features.

Medieval Welsh Medical Texts

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Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 1786835495
Total Pages : 625 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (868 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Welsh Medical Texts by : Diana Luft

Download or read book Medieval Welsh Medical Texts written by Diana Luft and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2020-06-01 with total page 625 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Introduction giving full explanation of the nature of the corpus and the historical context. This will allow readers to understand the nature of the texts, and to make inferences about how the medical texts which follow might have been used. Notes giving sources and analogues for the recipes in other contemporary European languages (Latin, Middle English, Anglo-Norman). These will allow readers to understand the common theories underlying the recipes and to make judgements about the place of this material within the larger European medical tradition of the time. Comprehensive glossaries. These will allow readers to find any recipe based on the ingredients used in it, or the condition treated, allowing them to compare with recipes in other sources themselves, from other time periods, or investigate the corpus of the way different ingredients were used. Comprehensive plant-name glossary giving evidence for the interpretation of the plant names in the corpus from a series of previously unstudied pre-modern plant-name glossaries. This will allow readers to evaluate the evidence for the interpretation of the plant names and hopefully spur on further research on this neglected topic.

Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 0812295420
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (122 download)

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Book Synopsis Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales by : Robin Chapman Stacey

Download or read book Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales written by Robin Chapman Stacey and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2018-09-06 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Law and the Imagination in Medieval Wales, Robin Chapman Stacey explores the idea of law as a form of political fiction: a body of literature that blurs the lines generally drawn between the legal and literary genres. She argues that for jurists of thirteenth-century Wales, legal writing was an intensely imaginative genre, one acutely responsive to nationalist concerns and capable of reproducing them in sophisticated symbolic form. She identifies narrative devices and tropes running throughout successive revisions of legal texts that frame the body as an analogy for unity and for the court, that equate maleness with authority and just rule and femaleness with its opposite, and that employ descriptions of internal and external landscapes as metaphors for safety and peril, respectively. Historians disagree about the context in which the lawbooks of medieval Wales should be read and interpreted. Some accept the claim that they originated in a council called by the tenth-century king Hywel Dda, while others see them less as a repository of ancient custom than as the Welsh response to the general resurgence in law taking place in western Europe. Stacey builds on the latter approach to argue that whatever their origins, the lawbooks functioned in the thirteenth century as a critical venue for political commentary and debate on a wide range of subjects, including the threat posed to native independence and identity by the encroaching English; concerns about violence and disunity among the native Welsh; abusive behavior on the part of native officials; unwelcome changes in native practice concerning marriage, divorce, and inheritance; and fears about the increasing political and economic role of women.

The Arthur of the Welsh

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 334 pages
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Book Synopsis The Arthur of the Welsh by : Rachel Bromwich

Download or read book The Arthur of the Welsh written by Rachel Bromwich and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 334 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Publisher description: This volume is unique in offering a comprehensive discussion of the Arthurian legend in Medieval Welsh literature. Little, if anything, is known historically of Arthur, yet for centuries the romances of Arthur and his court dominated the imaginative literature of Europe in many languages. The roots of this vast flowering of the Arthurian legend are to be found in early Welsh tradition and this volume gives an account of the Arthurian literature produced in Wales, in both Welsh and Latin, during the Middle Ages. The distinguished contributors offer a comprehensive view of recent scholarship relating to Arthurian literature in early Welsh and other Brythonic sources.

Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales

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Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 0230614930
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (36 download)

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Book Synopsis Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales by : R. Kennedy

Download or read book Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales written by R. Kennedy and published by Springer. This book was released on 2008-09-15 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The conquest of Wales by the medieval English throne produced a fiercely contested territory, both militarily and culturally. Wales was left fissured by frontiers of language, jurisdiction and loyalty - a reluctant meeting place of literary traditions and political cultures. But the profound consequences of this first colonial adventure on the development of medieval English culture have been disregarded. In setting English figurations of Wales against the contrasted representations of the Welsh language tradition, this volume seeks to reverse this neglect, insisting on the crucial importance of the English experience in Wales for any understanding of the literary cultures of medieval England and medieval Britain.

The Four Ancient Books of Wales Containing the Cymric Poems Attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century; Volume 2

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Publisher : Legare Street Press
ISBN 13 : 9781016115216
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (152 download)

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Book Synopsis The Four Ancient Books of Wales Containing the Cymric Poems Attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century; Volume 2 by : William Forbes Skene

Download or read book The Four Ancient Books of Wales Containing the Cymric Poems Attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century; Volume 2 written by William Forbes Skene and published by Legare Street Press. This book was released on 2022-10-27 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work is in the "public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Medieval Welsh Manuscripts

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 376 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Welsh Manuscripts by : Daniel Huws

Download or read book Medieval Welsh Manuscripts written by Daniel Huws and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of scholarly articles and lectures reflecting an articulate understanding of the Welsh manuscript tradition in its literary and historical contexts, together with detailed in-depth explorations of some well-known manuscripts by the leading authority in the field. Over 50 black-and-white illustrations of manuscript facsimilies. First published July 2000

Darogan

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Publisher : University of Wales Press
ISBN 13 : 0708326773
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (83 download)

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Book Synopsis Darogan by : Aled Llion Jones

Download or read book Darogan written by Aled Llion Jones and published by University of Wales Press. This book was released on 2013-10-15 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political prophecy was a common mode of literature in the British Isles and much of Europe from the Middle Ages to at least as late as the Renaissance. At times of political instability especially, the manuscript record bristles with prophetic works that promise knowledge of dynastic futures. In Welsh, the later development of this mode is best known through the figure of the mab darogan, the 'son of prophecy', who - variously named as Arthur, Owain or a number of other heroes - will return to re-establish sovereignty. Such a returning hero is also a potent figure in English, Scottish and wider European traditions. This book explores the large body of prophetic poetry and prose contained in the earliest Welsh-language manuscripts, exploring the complexity of an essentially multilingual, multi-ethnic and multinational literary tradition, and with reference to this wider tradition critical and theoretical questions are raised of genre, signification and significance.

Medieval Welsh Literature and Its European Contexts

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843847213
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (438 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Welsh Literature and Its European Contexts by : Victoria Flood

Download or read book Medieval Welsh Literature and Its European Contexts written by Victoria Flood and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2024-07-02 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Situates Celtic languages and literatures in relation to European movements, in the tradition of Helen Fulton's groundbreaking research. Professor Helen Fulton's influential scholarship has pioneered our understanding of the links between Welsh and European medieval literature. The essays collected here pay tribute to and reflect that scholarship, by positioning Celtic languages and literatures in relation to broader European movements and conventions. They include studies of texts from medieval Wales, Ireland, and the Welsh March, alongside discussions of continental multicultural literary engagements, understood as a closely related and analogous field of enquiry. Contributors present new investigations of Welsh poetry, from the pre-Conquest poetry of the princes to late-medieval and early Tudor urban subject matters; Welsh Arthuriana and Irish epic; the literature of the Welsh March - including the writings of the Gawain-poet; and the multilingual contexts of medieval and post-medieval Europe, from the Dutch speakers of polyglot medieval Calais to the Romantic poet Shelley's probable ownership of a Welsh Bible.

Medieval Welsh Genealogy

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Publisher : Boydell Press
ISBN 13 : 9781783275137
Total Pages : 552 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (751 download)

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Book Synopsis Medieval Welsh Genealogy by : Ben Guy

Download or read book Medieval Welsh Genealogy written by Ben Guy and published by Boydell Press. This book was released on 2020-04-17 with total page 552 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First in-depth investigation of the genealogies of medieval Wales, bringing out their full significance.

Welsh Court Poems

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 260 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Book Synopsis Welsh Court Poems by : Rhian M. Andrews

Download or read book Welsh Court Poems written by Rhian M. Andrews and published by . This book was released on 2007 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Welsh Court Poems is the first of ten volumes in the new Library of Medieval Welsh Literatureseries, which aims to make Middle Welsh literature available to English-speaking scholars and students who wish to study it in its original language. In keeping with that aim, Welsh Court Poems makes the poetry of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries available for the first time to this readership--presenting thirty-three of the 236 poems published by the Centre for Advanced Welsh and Celtic Studies. Each poem appears in the original Middle Welsh accompanied by a full scholarly apparatus in English, providing a point of entry for any scholar interested in Middle Welsh poetry itself or researching comparative literature in other languages, other periods of Welsh literature, and medieval history.