Layomon's Brut is a twelfth-century historical poem that includes the first account of King Arthur in English. Kenneth Tiller argues that Layamon uses the history of the ancient Britons to inspire the
Contributors: Eric Stanley, Daniel Donoghue, Carole Weinberg, John Frankis, Cyril Edwards, Andrew Breeze, Herbert Pilch, Elizabeth J. Bryan, W.R.J. Barron, Richard Dance, Philip Durkin, Michiko Ogura,
The spread of the Arthurian legend during the course of the twelfth century is one of the most remarkable phenomena in literary history. Arthurian Chronicles looks at two unsung but deserving poets wh
Beginning with the work of the Welsh monk Nennius, and the poets WIlliam Blake and Edmund Spenser, Dixon undertakes an exploration of the alternate history of Britain as imagined through the King Arth
