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Reading Layamon's Brut

Reading Lazamon's Brut

DQR studies in literature, 52

Introducion / Rosamund Allen, Jane Roberts and Carole Weinberg

Did Lawman nod, or is it we that yawn? / Rosamund Allen

The Brut as Saxon literature: the new philologists read Lawman / Haruko Momma

"pe tiden of pisse londe": finding and losing Wales in La3amon's Brut / Simon Meecham-Jones

The Severn: barrier or highway? / Andrew Wehner

The political notion of kingship in La3amon's Brut / Eric Stanley

Queer masculiinty in Lawman's Brut / John Brennan

La3amon's leir: language, succession, and history / Kenneth J. Tiller

Losing the past: Cezar's moment of time in Lawman's Brut / Joseph D. Parry

Lawman, Bede, and the context of slavery / Daniel Donoghue

Drinking of blood, burning of women / Andrew Breeze

The coronation of Arthur and Guenevere in Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, Wace's Roman de Brut, and Lawman's Brut / Charlotte A.T. Wulf

La3amon's gestures: body language in the Brut / Barry Windeatt

Conquest by word: the meeting of language in La3amon's Brut / Hannah McKendrick Bailey

A tale of two cities: London and Winchester in La3amon's Brut / Ian Kirby

When are Saxon's "Ænglisc"?: language and readerly identity in La3amon's Brut / Margaret Lamont

Mapping the national narrative: place-name etymology in La3amon's Brut and its sources / Joanna Bellis

The lexical field "warrior" in La3amon's Brut: a comparative analysis of the two versions / Christine Elsweiler

The language of law: lond and hond in La3amon's Brut / Deborah Marcum

Frið and Grið: La3amon and the legal language of Wulfstan / Scott Kleinman

La3amon's prosody: Califula and Otho, metres apart / Erik Kooper

Getting La3amon's Brut into sharper focus / Jane Roberts

Julius Ceasar and the language of history in La3amon's Brut / Carole Weinberg

La3amon's Ursula and the influence of Roman epic / Neil Cartlidge

Constructing tonwenne: a gesture and its history / Gail Ivy Berlin

Wace to La3amon via Waldef / Judith Weiss

Translating England in medieval Iceland: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britannie and Breta sogur / Sarah Baccianti

La3amon's Welsh / Jennifer Miller

The wisdom of hindsight in La3amon and some contemporaries / M. Leigh Harrison

Reading the lanscapes of La3amon's Arthur: place, meaning and intertextuality / Gareth Griffith

La3amon's Brut and the vernacular text: widening the context / Elizabeth J. Bryan.

Layamon, active 1200 > Criticism and interpretation.