Britain and Albion in the mythical histories of medieval England

Thesis

This dissertation examines the ideological role and adaptation of the mythical British past (derived from Geoffrey of Monmouth’s Historia regum Britanniae) in chronicles of England written in Anglo-Norman, Latin, and English from the twelfth to the fifteenth century, in terms of the shaping of English history during this time. I argue that the past is an important lens through which we can read the imagined geographies (Albion, Britain and England) and ‘imagined communities’ (the British a...

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Authors: Rajsic, J

• Publication date: 2013
• Type of award: DPhil
• Level of award: Doctoral
• Awarding institution: Oxford University, UK
• Language: English
• Keywords: Anglo-Norman literature; manuscript studies; Middle English literature; genealogy; Latin literature; mythical history
• Subjects: History of Britain and Europe; English Language and Literature; Late antiquity and the Middle Ages; History; French