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Armes Prydein
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Arthur's Court
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Arthurian romance studies
Author_Kristen Lee Over
Capetian King
Capetian Monarchy
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chren
chretien's
Chretien's Romance
colonial discourse analysis
Common Language
comparative medieval romance analysis
court
Culhwch Ac Olwen
De Braose
De Troyes
Emperor Charlemagne
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French medieval history
Henry III
Historia Brittonum
Historia Ecclesiastica Gentis Anglorum
Historia Regum Britannie
HRB.
knight
Llywelyn Ab Iorwerth
Louis VII
medieval literature
Por Ce
Pura Wallia
romance
royal authority decline
stephen
troyes
Twrch Trwyth
Welsh narrative tradition
Welsh Princes
Welsh Romance
Welsh Tale
Young Man
Ystrad Tywi
Product details
- ISBN 9780415972710
- Weight: 480g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 10 Jun 2005
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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First Published in 2005. Distinctly interdisciplinary, Kingship, Conquest, and Patria brings together French and Welsh studies with literary and historical analysis, genre study with questions of medieval colonialisms and national writing. It treats eight centuries' worth of insular and continental literature, placing the 12th- and 13th-century development of Arthurian romance in a history of fraught, ambiguous relations between Capetian France, Angevin England, and native Wales. Overall, the book aims to contextualize how French Arthurian romance and Welsh rhamant, despite being products of opposing cultures in an age of conquest, collectively revise the figure of King Arthur created by earlier insular tradition. At a time when contemporary monarchies sought to curtail the autonomy of both northern French and Welsh principalities, the literary image of kingship pointedly declines in romance and rhamant, replaced by an ideal of knightly independence. A focus on the romance portrait of King Arthur is the culmination of this study: Part I provides a survey of early British Arthurian material written in Latin and Welsh; Part II presents the historical contexts in northern France and Wales out of which the genre of Arthurian romance emerged; Part III turns to literary and sociopolitical analyses of Chrétien's five romances and the three Welsh rhamantau.
