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Construction of Vernacular History in the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle The Manuscript Culture of Late Medieval England | 9781903153741
by Marvin, Julia
Construction of Vernacular History in the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut Chronicle The Manuscript Culture of Late Medieval England
The prose Brut chronicle was the most popular vernacular work of the late Middle Ages in England, setting a standard for vernacular historical writing well into the age of print, but until recently it has attracted little scholarly attention. This book combines a study of the chronicle's sources, content, and methods of composition, with its manuscript contexts. Using the the Anglo-Norman Oldest Version as a touchstone, it investigates the chronicle's social ideals, its representation of women, and its distinctive versions of such elements of British history as the Trojan foundation myth, the ruin of the Britons, the Norman Conquest, and Arthur and Merlin, arguing that its humane, populist vision demands reassessment of medieval popular understandings of British history, and of the presumed dominance of imperialism, next-worldly piety, misogyny, and a taste for violence in late-medieval culture. The book also analyses evidence for the production of the Anglo-Norman Brut, and examines the ways in which its makers and users reconstructed British history through manuscript context, ordination and apparatus, annotation and illustration.
ISBN: 9781903153741.
Publisher: York Medieval Press.
Published Year: 2017.
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