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Lay̳amon's Brut between Old English heroic poetry and Middle English romance : a study of the lexical fields "hero," "warrior" and "knight" / Christine Elsweiler.
- Title
- Lay̳amon's Brut between Old English heroic poetry and Middle English romance : a study of the lexical fields "hero," "warrior" and "knight" / Christine Elsweiler.
- Author
- Elsweiler, Christine.
- Publication
- Frankfurt am Main : Peter Lang, 2011.
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- Description
- xix, 470 pages; 22 cm.
- Summary
- The two manuscripts of the early Middle English chronicle Lay̳amon's Brut, British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ix and British Library MS Cotton Otho C xiii, display marked differences in their use of vocabulary. Whereas the vocabulary of the Caligula manuscript is consciously archaising, the lexicon of the Otho text is more modern. This study of the lexical fields 'hero', 'warrior' and 'knight' in the Brut chronicle investigates both the backward orientation of the Caligula Brut towards Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry and the supposed orientation of the Otho Brut towards the newly emerging genre of the Middle English romance. The results highlight the creative use of Old English models in both manuscripts and disprove the hypothesised close link between the Otho Brut and the romance genre. -- Back cover.
- Series Statement
- Münchener Universitätsschriften. Texte und Untersuchungen zur Englischen Philologie, 0178-1383 ; Bd. 35
- Uniform Title
- Münchner Universitätsschriften. Texte und Untersuchungen zur englischen Philologie Bd. 35.
- Alternative Title
- Lazamon's Brut between Old English heroic poetry and Middle English romance
- Subject
- Layamon, active 1200
- Layamon 1200-
- Layamon
- Layamon, active 1200. > Language
- Layamon, 1200 fl
- Brut (Layamon)
- 1100-1500
- 1100-1200
- English language > Middle English, 1100-1500 > Semantics
- English language > Old English, ca. 450-1100 > Semantics
- Anglais (Langue) > ca 450-1100 (Vieil anglais) > Sémantique
- 18.04 English language
- English language > Semantics
- Altenglisch
- Mittelenglisch
- Wortfeld
- Held
- Krieger
- Ritter
- Middle English
- Old English
- Historical semantics
- Semantik
- Old English > Heroic poems
- Middle English literature > Romances
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 435-453) and index.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- I. Lay̳amonʹs Brut -- Introduction --- II. Looking backward -- Lay̳amon's Brut and the Old English heroic tradition --- III. Looking forward -- Lay̳amonʹs Brut and Middle English romance --- IV. Cultural transfer in the Brut and the Middle English romances.
- ISBN
- 9783631596692
- 3631596693
- LCCN
- 2012376475
- OCLC
- 695283007
- SCSB-11955807
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library