Corinne J. Saunders

Neil Thomas

Françoise Hazel Marie Le Saux

Essays consider the variety of responses to warfare and combat in medieval literature.

Medieval Literary Responses to Warfare

Writing War

Essays reflecting the present state of Layamon studies, identifying problems and outlining current directions in research.

The Text and Tradition of La[y]amon's Brut

A comprehensive and objective study of Layamon's sources is long overdue. As a first step Françoise le Saux investigates the English poet's handling of his main source, Wace's Roman de Brut, to determine what principles guided the composition of the English Brut. These established, she is able to distinguish between different sorts of variation from the Roman, thereby providing norms against which to gauge the probability of further, secondary sources. Additional sources are then identified, in the various fields suggested by the poem: historical; literary; and religious writings (or tales) in Welsh, English, Latin and French and perhaps even Scandinavian.

The Poem and Its Sources

Layamon's Brut

"Guide to the works of the twelfth-century chronicler Wace, setting him in historical and cultural context"--Provided by publisher.

Françoise Hazel Marie Le Saux

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