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Wales and the Medieval colonial imaginationthe matters of Britain in the twelfth century /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Wales and the Medieval colonial imaginationMichael A. Faletra.
Reminder of title:	the matters of Britain in the twelfth century /
Author:	Faletra, Michael A.
Published:	Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014.
Description:	260 p. :2 figures.
Notes:	Electronic book text.
Notes:	Epublication based on: 9781137391025, 2014.
Subject:	Arthurian romancesHistory and criticism.
Subject:	WalesChurch history16th century.
Online resource:	Online journal 'available contents' page
ISBN:	1137391030 (electronic bk.) :

Wales and the Medieval colonial imaginationthe matters of Britain in the twelfth century /
Faletra, Michael A.

Wales and the Medieval colonial imaginationthe matters of Britain in the twelfth century /[electronic resource] :Michael A. Faletra. - 1st ed. - Basingstoke :Palgrave Macmillan :2014. - 260 p. :2 figures. - The New Middle Ages.

Electronic book text.

Introduction: The Scrap-Heap of History 1. Geoffrey of Monmouth and the Matter of Wales 2. Fairies at the Bottom of the Garden: Courtly Britain and Its Others 3. Chretien de Troyes, Wales, and the Matiere of Britain 4. Crooked Greeks: Hybridity, History, and Gerald of Wales Epilogue: The Birds of Rhiannon.

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Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and the Welsh.Focusing on works by some of the major literary figures of the period, Michael A. Faletra argues that the legendary history of Britain that flourished in medieval chronicles and Arthurian romances traces its origins to twelfth-century Anglo-Norman colonial interest in Wales and the Welsh. Viewing the Welsh as England's original repressed Other, this book identifies and critiques the ways in which medieval narratives construe Wales as a barbaric peripheral zone requiring colonial control. By focusing on texts across a variety of genres by some of the major literary figures of the period - including Geoffrey of Monmouth, Chretien de Troyes, Marie de France, Gerald of Wales, Walter Map, and John of Salisbury - Faletra offers innovative new readings that illuminate both the subtle power and the imaginative limitations of these matters of Britain.

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Michael A. Faletra is Associate Professor of English and Humanities at Reed College, USA. He has translated and edited Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain, and his essays have appeared in scholarly journals that include Exemplaria, The Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Medievalia et Humanistica, and The Chaucer Review.

ISBN: 1137391030 (electronic bk.) :£57.50Subjects--Topical Terms:

209841
Arthurian romances
--History and criticism.Subjects--Geographical Terms:

689309
Wales
--Church history--16th century.

LC Class. No.: PR275.W36 / F35 2014

Dewey Class. No.: 820.93242909021

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