The Text and Tradition of Layamon's Brut

by Layamon, Françoise H.M. le Saux (Editor)

This volume investigates the problems with which the contemporary reader of Layamon's Brut is To what extent is the archaic feel of the Brut part of a deliberate aesthetic strategy of Layamon's? For what sortof audience could it have been written? How can one define its relation to older or more recent texts and traditions? What ideological stance (if any) is to be deduced from the work?
The seventeen articles in this book tackle the different issues from a variety of codicology and palaeography; Linguistics, stylists and syntax; the socio-political dimension of the work and its possible audience; the tradition upon which Layamon was drawing, and his contribution to later writers; literary theory and more general issues such as gender and spatial symbolism in the Brut . A number of essays present a synthesis of points of view, specifically intended to provide students with a yardstick against which to measure the more controversial articlesin the volume.

MARIE-FRANÇOISE ALAMICHEL, ROSAMUND ALLEN, STEPHEN K. BREHE, BETH BRYAN, ARTHUR WAYNE GLOWKA, MARSHAL S. GRANT, DOUGLAS MOFFAT, YOKO IYEIRI, LESLEY JOHNSON, FRANÇOICE LE SAUX, JAMES I. McNELIS III, JAMES NOBLE, HERBERT PILCH, JANE ROBERTS, ERIC G. STANLEY, CAROLE WEINBERG, KELLEY M. WICKHAM-CROWLEY, NEIL WRIGHT

Dr FRANCOISE LE SAUXlectures in Medieval English language and literature at the University of Lausanne.

Table of Contents

A Preliminary Note on British Library, Cotton MS Caligula A.ix - Jane Roberts
Lazamon's Archaic Use of the Verbal Prefix To- - Marshal Grant and Douglas Moffat
Negation in the Brut - Yoko Iyeiri
Lazamon's un-Anglo-Saxon Syntax - Alicia Black, Editorial Assistant
The Poetics of Lazamon's Brut - A W Glowka
Lazamon as Auctor - Steven K Brehe
The Two Manuscripts of Lazamon's Some Readers in the Margins - Elizabeth J Bryan
The Latin Marginal Glosses in the Caligula Manuscript of Lazamon's Brut - Carole Weinberg
The Implied Audience of Lazamon's Brut - Rosamund S Allen
Reading the Past in Lazamon's Brut - Lesley Johnson
Angles and Saxons in Lazamon's A Reassessment - Neil Wright NO LONGER AT THIS ADDRS
Lazamon's `Ambivalence' Reconsidered - James Noble
Space in the Brut or Lazamon's Vision of the World - Marie-Francoise Alamichel
Paradigms of Gender and Crime in Lazamon's Brut - Francoise H M Le Saux
Lazamon's Narrative Innovations and Bakhtin's Theories - Kelley M Wickham-Crowley
Two Breton Analogues of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight - a Model Case for Lazamon's Relation to British Storytelling - Herbert Pilch
Lazamon as Auctor - James I McNelis

284 pages, Hardcover

First published November 10, 1994

About the author

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Layamon, English poet, circa 1205 wrote The Brut , the first account of knights of Arthur, king.

Layamon, occasionally notable author of the 12th century and the early 13th century, worked the language to discuss the legends of the Round Table.

Layamon describes a priest, lived at Areley Kings in Worcestershire. He provided numerous later inspiration for Sir Thomas Malory and Jorge Luis Borges and affected medieval history.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Layamon