This volume insists on the crucial importance of the English experience in Wales to the understanding of the literary cultures of medieval England and medieval Britain.
Ruth Kennedy is a Senior Lecturer, Department of English, Royal Holloway, University of London. She is the author or Medieval English Measures, Three Alliterative Saints’ Hymns, and the co-author of Writers of the Reign of Henry II.
Simon Meecham-Jones is Affiliated Lecturer, English Faculty, Cambridge University and Associate Research Fellow, Medieval and Early Modern Research Centre, University of Swansea. He is the co-author of Writers of the Reign of Henry II.
List of Illustrations
p. xi
Acknowledgments
p. xiii
List of Contributors
p. xv
Introduction
p. 1
Middle English Texts and Welsh Contexts
p. 13
Where Was Wales? The Erasure of Wales in Medieval English Culture
p. 27
The Lichfield/Llandeilo Gospels Reinterpreted
p. 57
"Feorran Broht": Exeter Book Riddle 12 and the Commodification of the Exotic
p. 71
"By the Authority of the Devil": The Operation of Welsh and English Law in Medieval Wales
p. 85
Trevisa's Translation of Higden's Polychronicon, Book I, Chapter 38, De Wallia: An Edition
p. 99
Wales and Welshness in Middle English Romances
p. 137
Crossing the Borders: Literary Borrowing in Medieval Wales and England
p. 159
Malory's Divided Wales
p. 175
Class and Nation: Defining the English in Late-Medieval Welsh Poetry
p. 191
English Economies and Welsh Realities: Drama in Medieval and Early Modern Wales
p. 213
"Songes of the Doeinges of Their Auncestors": Aspects of Welsh and English Musical Traditions
p. 231
William Salesbury and Welsh Printing in London before 1557
p. 251
Index
p. 267
Index of Manuscripts
p. 289
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