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Recounting the history of the kings of England from the discovery of the island by Brutus to the reign of Edward III, the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut was one of the most popular texts of its time. Subsisting in fifty manuscripts, the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut has not been the subject of a published edition, despite being the source of the very popular English Prose Brut, one of the first texts to be published by Caxton. Very little of the text can be considered original material; most of the work is a translation of well known sources, such as Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae, Wace's Roman de Brut, Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis and Langtoft's Chronicle. While the work originally terminated in 1272 with the death of Henry III, it was the subject of two continuations in the decades that followed. The first continuation is believed to have added an account of the reign of Edward I, ending in 1307, though few manuscripts attest to the work ending at this point. Two separate continuations were added to the text during the reign of Edward III (1327-1377), updating the work to contemporary times. These two continuations are known for reason of their length as the short and long c

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Author

Heather Joanne Pagan

Publisher

University of Toronto

Published

2006

Language

EN

ISBN

9780494527467

Category

nonfiction