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A Perceforest Reader: Selected Episodes from Perceforest: The Prehistory of Arthur´s Britain
Nigel Bryant
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Paperback. Translator(s): Bryant, Nigel. Num Pages: 128 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DSBB. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 131 x 210 x 7. Weight in Grams: 142. Selected Episodes from Perceforest: the Prehistory of Arthur's Britain. 128 pages, black & white illustrations. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: DSBB. Dimension: 131 x 210 x 7. Weight: 148. Translator(s): Bryant, Nigel.
Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry and a mine of folkloric motifs . Its contents are drawn not only from earlier Arthurian material, but also from romances about Alexander the Great, from Roman histories and from medieval travel writing - not to mention oral tradition, including as it does the first and unexpurgated version of ... Read more
Perceforest is one of the largest and certainly the most extraordinary of the late Arthurian romances, and is almost completely unknown except to a handful of scholars. But it is a work of exceptional richness and importance, and has been justly described as an encyclopaedia of 14th-century chivalry and a mine of folkloric motifs . Its contents are drawn not only from earlier Arthurian material, but also from romances about Alexander the Great, from Roman histories and from medieval travel writing - not to mention oral tradition, including as it does the first and unexpurgated version of ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Number of pages
128
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2012
Condition
New
Weight
142g
Number of Pages
128
Place of Publication
Cambridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781843842903
SKU
V9781843842903
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About Nigel Bryant
Nigel Bryant was head of drama at Marlborough College.
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