Walter Map and the Matter of Britain
Author | : Joshua Byron Smith |
Publisher | : University of Pennsylvania Press |
Total Pages | : 272 |
Release | : 2017-07-25 |
ISBN-10 | : 9780812249323 |
ISBN-13 | : 0812249321 |
Rating | : 4/5 (321 Downloads) |
Download or read book Walter Map and the Matter of Britain written by Joshua Byron Smith and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2017-07-25 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why would the thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer this and other questions and offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain circulated in England.