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John and Henry III in the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  05 May 2013

Julia Marvin
Affiliation:
University of Notre Dame
Janet Burton
Affiliation:
University of Wales
Phillipp Schofield
Affiliation:
Aberystwyth University
Björn Weiler
Affiliation:
Aberystwyth University
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Probably composed during the reign of Edward I, with a concise narrative of British history running from the fall of Troy to the death of Henry III in 1272, the Oldest Version of the Anglo-Norman prose Brut was designed for an audience extending past the highest elites of Church and government. Markedly secular in perspective, baronial in its sympathies, and insular in focus, with some attention paid to Scotland, much less to Wales and Ireland, and almost none to the Continent beyond the English regnum, it offers both an account of some of the thirteenth century and a thirteenth-century perspective on the English past.

The earlier portions of the Oldest Version are based largely on the Historia regum Britannie of Geoffrey of Monmouth, Wace's Roman de Brut, and Gaimar's Estoire des Engleis, as well as hagiographic materials and romance matter such as that of Havelok. From the 1060s on, it is derived from something very close to, but not identical with, the extant version of the Latin chronicle of the Praemonstratensian house of Barlings in Lincolnshire, which in turn is closely related to the annals of Waverley and has passages analogous to Henry of Huntingdon, the Anglo-Saxon chronicle, John of Worcester, William of Malmesbury, Robert of Torigni, Ralph of Coggeshall, and Ralph Diceto. The writer is either using a fuller version of the Barlings chronicle than the one that survives, or he is occasionally consulting some of the same source texts, such as Henry of Huntingdon, John of Worcester, and William of Malmesbury, as well as Roger of Howden or an analogue to it (which is not used in Barlings).

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Thirteenth Century England XIV
Proceedings of the Aberystwyth and Lampeter Conference, 2011
, pp. 169 - 182
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Print publication year: 2013

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