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Cover 1 Celts, Romans, Britons: Classical and Celtic Influence in the Construction of British Identities 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Acknowledgements 8 Contents 10 List of Figures 12 List of Contributors 14 1: Celts, Romans, Britons: Introduction 16 ‘Celtic’ and ‘Classical’: Definition, Opposition, and Interaction 20 2: British Ethnogenesis: A Late Antique Story 34 3: Romans, Britons, and the Construction of ‘Anglo-Saxon’ Identity 46 4: Origins and Introductions: Troy and Rome in Medieval British and Irish Writing 66 British history and the struggle for ‘Britain’ 68 Troy and Rome 75 National Origins and Trojan Ambiguities in Welsh and Irish Troy Narratives 81 The Trojan Preface in English Romance: Sir Gawain and the Green Knight and Chaucer’s House of Fame 84 Conclusion 93 5: The Politics of British Antiquity and the Descent from Troy in the Early Stuart Era 94 The Jacobean Campaign for the (Re)unification of Britain 95 Troynovant Must Not be Burnt 103 6: Greek Gaels, British Gaels: Classical Allusion in Early-Modern Scottish Gaelic Poetry 112 The Poets and the Poetry 113 Classical Reception 115 Modern Scholarship 117 The Allusions: Warriors, Philosophers, and the War of the Sexes 1

Author

Francesca Kaminski-Jones and Rhys Kaminski-Jones

Published

2020

Language

EN