Authority and Subjugation in Writing of Medieval Wales

by Kennedy, Ruth; Meecham-Jones, Simon

• ISBN13: 9780230602953
• ISBN10: 0230602959
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-09-15
• Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan

Summary

This volume insists on the crucial importance of the English experience in Wales to the understanding of the literary cultures of medieval England and medieval Britain.

Author Biography

Ruth Kennedy is a Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author or Medieval English Measures, Three Alliterative Saints’ Hymns, and the co-author of Writers of the Reign of Henry II.

Simon Meecham-Jones is Affiliated Lecturer, English Faculty, Cambridge University and Associate Research Fellow, Medieval and Early Modern Research Centre, University of Swansea. He is the co-author of Writers of the Reign of Henry II.

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	p. xi
Acknowledgments	p. xiii
List of Contributors	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
Middle English Texts and Welsh Contexts	p. 13
Where Was Wales? The Erasure of Wales in Medieval English Culture	p. 27
The Lichfield/Llandeilo Gospels Reinterpreted	p. 57
"Feorran Broht": Exeter Book Riddle 12 and the Commodification of the Exotic	p. 71
"By the Authority of the Devil": The Operation of Welsh and English Law in Medieval Wales	p. 85
Trevisa's Translation of Higden's Polychronicon, Book I, Chapter 38, De Wallia: An Edition	p. 99
Wales and Welshness in Middle English Romances	p. 137
Crossing the Borders: Literary Borrowing in Medieval Wales and England	p. 159
Malory's Divided Wales	p. 175
Class and Nation: Defining the English in Late-Medieval Welsh Poetry	p. 191
English Economies and Welsh Realities: Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Wales	p. 213
"Songes of the Doeinges of Their Auncestors": Aspects of Welsh and English Musical Traditions	p. 231
William Salesbury and Welsh Printing in London before 1557	p. 251
Index	p. 267
Index of Manuscripts	p. 289
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