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This volume provides an accessible, English prose translation of Wace's
Roman de Brut, in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons.
List of contents
- Introduction
- Note on the Text
- Select Bibliography
- Summary of the Text
- ROMAN DE BRUT
- Explanatory Notes
- Manuscripts
- Glossary
- Index of Personal Names
- Index of Geographical Names
About the author
Glyn S. Burgess is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. He has translated the three twelfth-century romances of antiquity and the
Roman de Rou of Wace (2002). In 1990 he was made a
Chevalier des Palmes AcadÃ(c)miques and he is an honorary President of the International Courtly Literature Society. His most recent books are
Twenty-Four Lays from the French Middle Ages (2016; with Leslie C. Brook),
The Roman de Troie by Benoît de Sainte-Maure (2017; with Douglas Kelly), and
The Roman de Thÿbes and the Roman d'Eneas (2021; with Douglas Kelly).
Jean Blacker is Emeritus Professor of French, Kenyon College. Her more recent publications include
Wace, The Hagiographical Works: The Conception Nostre Dame and the Lives of St Margaret and St Nicholas (2013), with Glyn S. Burgess, and Amy V. Ogden,
Court and Cloister: Essays in the Short Narrative in Honor of Glyn S. Burgess (2018), with Jane H. M. Taylor. Her work focuses on the protean uses of King Arthur in Anglo-Norman, Continental French, and Latin historiography of the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, focusing on the interconnections between foundation myths, competing claims of identity, and cultural imperialism in the legendary history of Britain.
Summary
This volume provides an accessible, English prose translation of Wace's Roman de Brut, in which Arthur appears for the first time as king of the Britons.
Additional text
This is a book anybody who has studied British literature casually, at school, in graduate school, or in their post-doctoral research should have in their home-library. And all types of libraries should acquire it for their collections, and anybody can at some point come across sources that refer to Brut, prompting a need to review this text itself.
