Origins and Introductions: Troy and Rome in Medieval British and Irish Writing.
- Author / Editor
- Fulton, Helen.
Origins and Introductions: Troy and Rome in Medieval British and Irish Writing.
- Published
- Francesca Kaminski-Jones and Rhys Kaminski-Jones, eds. Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in the Construction of British Identities (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2020), pp. 51-78.
- Description
- Compares "English, Welsh, and Irish refabrications of the Trojan legend as national origin myths," focusing on the ambivalences of the legend, describing the “translatio imperii studiique,” and commenting on medieval (including Chaucerian) meanings of "Britain," "British," and related terms. Includes discussion of HF, particularly its "Trojan preface," list of historians, and concern with the “contingent nature of historical truth” and the fineness of "the line between history and romance."
- Contributor
- Kaminski-Jones, Rhys, ed.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism
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