Gods, Heroes, and Kings : The Battle for Mythic Britain
- Author / Editor
- Fee, Christopher R., with David E. Leeming.
Gods, Heroes, and Kings : The Battle for Mythic Britain
- Published
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2001.
- Physical Description
- xiv, 242 pp.
- Description
- Surveys the multicultural nature of medieval British literature, which combines Celtic, Roman, Anglo-Saxon, Norse, and Christian influences. Introduces the myths and heroic figures of pre-Christian cultures through synopses of various narratives and accompanying commentaries. A commentary on a synopsis of WBT suggests that the latter weaves folkloric motifs into a penitential pattern.
- Contributor
- Leeming, David E.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Wife of Bath and Her Tale.
- Sources, Analogues, and Literary Relations.