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Chance, Christina Lenore.

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Imagining empire: Maxen Wledic, Arthur, and Charlemagne in Welsh literature after the Edwardian conquest.

Record Type:	Language materials, printed : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Imagining empire: Maxen Wledic, Arthur, and Charlemagne in Welsh literature after the Edwardian conquest./
Author:	Chance, Christina Lenore.
Description:	247 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2452.
Contained By:	Dissertation Abstracts International71-07A.
Subject:	Literature, Medieval. -
Online resource:	http://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=3414647
ISBN:	9781124079981

Imagining empire: Maxen Wledic, Arthur, and Charlemagne in Welsh literature after the Edwardian conquest.
Chance, Christina Lenore.

Imagining empire: Maxen Wledic, Arthur, and Charlemagne in Welsh literature after the Edwardian conquest. - 247 p.

Source: Dissertation Abstracts International, Volume: 71-07, Section: A, page: 2452.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Harvard University, 2010.

This study explores the treatment of emperors and over-kings in medieval Welsh prose texts within the context of the late 13th century Edwardian conquest of Wales and its fourteenth century ramifications. After 1282, texts concerned with empire and centered around a powerful conquering king or emperor would have been read in Wales the context of the recent English conquest, which firmly subordinated Wales to England. This study explores the historical realities that shaped the value and meaning placed on these empire texts by the men who read, wrote, and listened to them in the fourteenth century. It goes on to explore how these texts mediated the changes, adversities, and opportunities that were newly introduced with the solidifying and intensifying of the English lordship over the Welsh. Different texts provide different views of empire: overall these Middle Welsh texts support empire as a stabilizing element, though some celebrate the benefits to be gained from it and others reveal the anxieties of the men who serve it. In looking at the ways that the emperors (and their conquered peoples and vassals) are treated in these tales, I explore the ways in which the medieval Welsh negotiated their relationships with authority, revealing a complexity of attitude and a deep ambivalence toward authority.

ISBN: 9781124079981Subjects--Topical Terms:

571675
Literature, Medieval.

Imagining empire: Maxen Wledic, Arthur, and Charlemagne in Welsh literature after the Edwardian conquest.
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