An Anglo-Norman Reader

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Publisher : Open Book Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1783743166
Total Pages : 1044 pages
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Book Synopsis An Anglo-Norman Reader by : Jane Bliss

Download or read book An Anglo-Norman Reader written by Jane Bliss and published by Open Book Publishers. This book was released on 2018-02-08 with total page 1044 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is an anthology with a difference. It presents a distinctive variety of Anglo-Norman works, beginning in the twelfth century and ending in the nineteenth, covering a broad range of genres and writers, introduced in a lively and thought-provoking way. Facing-page translations, into accessible and engaging modern English, are provided throughout, bringing these texts to life for a contemporary audience. The collection offers a selection of fascinating passages, and whole texts, many of which are not anthologised or translated anywhere else. It explores little-known byways of Arthurian legend and stories of real-life crime and punishment; women’s voices tell history, write letters, berate pagans; advice is offered on how to win friends and influence people, how to cure people’s ailments and how to keep clear of the law; and stories from the Bible are retold with commentary, together with guidance on prayer and confession. Each text is introduced and elucidated with notes and full references, and the material is divided into three main sections: Story (a variety of narrative forms), Miscellany (including letters, law and medicine, and other non-fiction), and Religious (saints' lives, sermons, Bible commentary, and prayers). Passages in one genre have been chosen so as to reflect themes or stories that appear in another, so that the book can be enjoyed as a collection or used as a resource to dip into for selected texts. This anthology is essential reading for students and scholars of Anglo-Norman and medieval literature and culture. Wide-ranging and fully referenced, it can be used as a springboard for further study or relished in its own right by readers interested to discover Anglo-Norman literature that was written to amuse, instruct, entertain, or admonish medieval audiences.

Anglo-Norman Literature and Its Background

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Publisher : Oxford, Clarendon P
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Total Pages : 412 pages
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Book Synopsis Anglo-Norman Literature and Its Background by : Mary Dominica Legge

Download or read book Anglo-Norman Literature and Its Background written by Mary Dominica Legge and published by Oxford, Clarendon P. This book was released on 1963 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anglo-Norman Language & Literature

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Total Pages : 126 pages
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Book Synopsis Anglo-Norman Language & Literature by : Johan Vising

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The Legend of Charlemagne in Medieval England

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843844729
Total Pages : 491 pages
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Book Synopsis The Legend of Charlemagne in Medieval England by : Phillipa Hardman

Download or read book The Legend of Charlemagne in Medieval England written by Phillipa Hardman and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2017 with total page 491 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The first full-length examination of the medieval Charlemagne tradition in the literature and culture of medieval England, from the Chanson de Roland to Caxton. The Matter of France, the legendary history of Charlemagne, had a central but now largely unrecognised place in the multilingual culture of medieval England. From the early claim in the Chanson de Roland that Charlemagne held England as his personal domain, to the later proliferation of Middle English romances of Charlemagne, the materials are woven into the insular political and cultural imagination. However, unlike the wide range of continental French romances, the insular tradition concentrates on stories of a few heroic characters: Roland, Fierabras, Otinel. Why did writers and audiences in England turn again and again to these narratives, rewriting and reinterpreting them for more than two hundred years? This book offers the first full-length, in-depth study of the tradition as manifested in literature and culture. It investigates the currency and impact of the Matter of France with equal attention to English and French-language texts, setting each individual manuscript or early printed text in its contemporary cultural and political context. The narratives are revealed to be extraordinarily adaptable, using the iconic opposition between Carolingian and Saracen heroes to reflect concerns with national politics, religious identity, the future of Christendom, chivalry and ethics, and monarchy and treason. PHILLIPA HARDMAN is Readerin Medieval English Literature (retired) at the University of Reading; MARIANNE AILES is Senior Lecturer in French at the University of Bristol.

Anglo-Norman Literature and Its Background

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Total Pages : pages
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Book Synopsis Anglo-Norman Literature and Its Background by : M. Dominica Legge

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A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 9781843833413
Total Pages : 324 pages
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Book Synopsis A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World by : Christopher Harper-Bill

Download or read book A Companion to the Anglo-Norman World written by Christopher Harper-Bill and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2007 with total page 324 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is an introduction to the history of England and Normandy in the 11th and 12th centuries. Within the broad field of cultural history, there are discussions of language, literature, the writing of history and ecclesiastical architecture.

The Anglo-Norman Bible's Book of Joshua

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ISBN 13 : 9782503591339
Total Pages : 208 pages
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Book Synopsis The Anglo-Norman Bible's Book of Joshua by : Brent A. Pitts

Download or read book The Anglo-Norman Bible's Book of Joshua written by Brent A. Pitts and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-28 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Anglo-Norman Bible's Joshua includes tales of spies, giants, the prostitute Rahab, the punishment of Achan, oracles, and Joshua's brilliant military victories. Joshua stops the sun. The first half of the book relates Joshua's stunning conquests in Canaan. The second half, the apportionment of the land among the tribes, detailed geographical surveys of territorial boundaries, and the death of Joshua. Skilful, well-paced story telling is a feature of the ANB's Joshua. To the accounts of Rahab and Achan we may add the chronicle of Joshua's successful, crushing campaign in the wake of the destruction of Makkedah. In rapid succession, and in an annalistic style involving staccato repetition of key phrases, the narrator relates the destruction of Libnah, Lachish, Eglon, Hebron, and Debir. The text of the ANB's Joshua is extant in British Library Royal 1 C III (base manuscript, L) and Paris, Bibliotheque nationale de France, MS francais 1 (P), both c. 1350 and both the Bibles of kings. L belonged at some point in the fifteenth century to Reading's Benedictine abbey, entering the royal library in 1530. Characteristic of L is its occasional insertion of short glosses in English or Latin to clarify or correct the Anglo-Norman text. An illustrated text, P was prepared by an English workshop for the fourth baron de Welles, John, and his wife, Maud, daughter of William, Lord Ros. This is clearly the Bible of a wealthy and well-connected English family. After the Welles family, the manuscript belonged to Louis de Bruges (1492), then to King Louis XII of France.

The Study of the Anglo-Norman

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Total Pages : 48 pages
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Book Synopsis The Study of the Anglo-Norman by : Paul Studer

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Anglo-Norman in the Cloisters

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Publisher : Edinburgh : University Press
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Total Pages : 164 pages
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Download or read book Anglo-Norman in the Cloisters written by Mary Dominica Legge and published by Edinburgh : University Press. This book was released on 1950 with total page 164 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Anglo-Norman Anniversary Essays

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Total Pages : 440 pages
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Book Synopsis Anglo-Norman Anniversary Essays by : Ian Short

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The Anglo-Norman Language and Its Contexts

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1903153301
Total Pages : 198 pages
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Book Synopsis The Anglo-Norman Language and Its Contexts by : Richard Ingham

Download or read book The Anglo-Norman Language and Its Contexts written by Richard Ingham and published by Boydell & Brewer Ltd. This book was released on 2010 with total page 198 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms.

Courtoisie in Anglo-Norman Literature

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Publisher : Ardent Media
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Total Pages : 178 pages
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Courtoisie in Anglo-Norman Literature

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Total Pages : 188 pages
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Book Synopsis Courtoisie in Anglo-Norman Literature by : Constance Birt West

Download or read book Courtoisie in Anglo-Norman Literature written by Constance Birt West and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author analyzes the utilitarian point of view of Anglo-Norman writers as seen through those of their works that have survived. This attitude helps explain the standards of conduct expected of the nobility of that period.

Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures

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Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000110990
Total Pages : 888 pages
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Book Synopsis Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures by : Richard North

Download or read book Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic, and Anglo-Norman Literatures written by Richard North and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-11-25 with total page 888 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Longman Anthology of Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman Literatures provides a scholarly and accessible introduction to the literature which was the inspiration for many of the heroes of modern popular culture, from The Lord of the Rings to The Chronicles of Narnia, and which set the foundations of the English language and its literature as we know it today. Edited, translated and annotated by the editors of Beowulf and Other Stories, the anthology introduces readers to the rich and varied literature of Britain, Scandinavia and France of the period in and around the Viking Age. Ranging from the Old English epic Beowulf through to the Anglo-Norman texts which heralded the transition Middle English, thematically organised chapters present elegies, eulogies, laments and followed by material on the Viking Wars in the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, Vikings gods and Icelandic sagas, and a final chapter on early chivalry introduces the new themes and forms which led to Middle English literature, including Arthurian Romances and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales. Laying out in parallel text format selections from the most important Old English, Old Icelandic and Anglo-Norman works, this anthology presents translated and annotated texts with useful bibliographic references, prefaced by a headnote providing useful background and explanation.

The Continuity of the Conquest

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Publisher : Penn State Press
ISBN 13 : 0271077905
Total Pages : 189 pages
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Book Synopsis The Continuity of the Conquest by : Wendy Marie Hoofnagle

Download or read book The Continuity of the Conquest written by Wendy Marie Hoofnagle and published by Penn State Press. This book was released on 2016-09-16 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Norman conquerors of Anglo-Saxon England have traditionally been seen both as rapacious colonizers and as the harbingers of a more civilized culture, replacing a tribal Germanic society and its customs with more refined Continental practices. Many of the scholarly arguments about the Normans and their influence overlook the impact of the past on the Normans themselves. The Continuity of the Conquest corrects these oversights. Wendy Marie Hoofnagle explores the Carolingian aspects of Norman influence in England after the Norman Conquest, arguing that the Normans’ literature of kingship envisioned government as a form of imperial rule modeled in many ways on the glories of Charlemagne and his reign. She argues that the aggregate of historical and literary ideals that developed about Charlemagne after his death influenced certain aspects of the Normans’ approach to ruling, including a program of conversion through “allurement,” political domination through symbolic architecture and propaganda, and the creation of a sense of the royal forest as an extension of the royal court. An engaging new approach to understanding the nature of Norman identity and the culture of writing and problems of succession in Anglo-Norman England, this volume will enlighten and enrich scholarship on medieval, early modern, and English history.

Anglo-Norman Studies

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Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 9780851151786
Total Pages : 270 pages
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Book Synopsis Anglo-Norman Studies by : R. Allen Brown

Download or read book Anglo-Norman Studies written by R. Allen Brown and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1983 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics covered in this edited volume include Norman Romanesque sculpture, Roman de Rouand the Norman Conquest, the Bayeux Tapestry, military service before 1066, England and Byzantium, and more.

Anglo-Norman Language & Literature

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Total Pages : 111 pages
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Download or read book Anglo-Norman Language & Literature written by Johan Vising and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 111 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: