"The medieval prose Brut is a narrative of British history beginning with Brutus and the foundation of Britain, and, in different versions, extending to different dates as late as the latter part of the fifteenth century. It originated in Anglo-Norman, and was later translated into Middle English ... Finally, there emerged Latin versions of the Brut translated from Middle English"--Introduction, p. [xiii]. Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Introduction / William Marx and Raluca Radulescu -- Sources and analogues of the Anglo-Norman prose Brut chronicle : new findings / Julia Marvin -- History and chivalry in the Brut, 1333-1377 / Carole Weinberg -- Reception and revision in the Middle English prose Brut / William Marx -- Thys ys her owne boke : women reading the Middle English prose Brut chronicle / Amy Noelle Vines -- I read therefore I write : readers' marginalia in some Brut manuscripts / Tamar Drukker -- Dialoguing hands in MS Hatton 50 : Reformation readers of the Middle English prose Brut / Elizabeth J. Bryan -- Gentry readers of the Brut and genealogical material / Raluca Radulescu -- The eyes of memory : the function of the illustrations in Dublin, Trinity College Library MS 505 / John Scattergood -- Afterlives of the prose Brut in early modern chronicle and literature / Christy Desmet.
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