Georgia
Henley
2020
This article examines Dublin, Trinity College 11500, a historical compilation dated to the fourteenth century containing the First Variant version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's De gestis Britonum, works by Gerald of Wales and Aristotle, and several poems including a prophetical text called ‘Song on the kings of Scotland’. Following a long period of private ownership, the manuscript was purchased by Trinity College in 2014. It brings to light important new textual evidence for Geoffrey's First Variant. This article examines the text's readings against the other extant manuscripts of the First Variant, establishes that it is the exemplar for Evan Evans' eighteenth-century extracts, and contextualizes the production of the manuscript within a network of transnational Irish Sea connections between Ireland, northeast Wales, and the Welsh Marches enabled by the Cistercian order.
This article examines Dublin, Trinity College 11500, a historical compilation dated to the fourteenth century containing the First Variant version of Geoffrey of Monmouth's De gestis Britonum, works by Gerald of Wales and Aristotle, and several poems including a prophetical text called ‘Song on the kings of Scotland’. Following a long period of private ownership, the manuscript was purchased by Trinity College in 2014. It brings to light important new textual evidence for Geoffrey's First Variant. This article examines the text's readings against the other extant manuscripts of the First Variant, establishes that it is the exemplar for Evan Evans' eighteenth-century extracts, and contextualizes the production of the manuscript within a network of transnational Irish Sea connections between Ireland, northeast Wales, and the Welsh Marches enabled by the Cistercian order.
The chronicles of medieval Wales are a rich body of source material offering an array of perspectives on historical developments in Wales and beyond. Preserving unique records of events from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, these chronicles form the essential narrative backbone of all modern accounts of medieval Welsh history. Most celebrated of all are the chronicles belonging to the Annales Cambriae and Brut y Tywysogyon families, which document the tumultuous struggles between the Welsh princes and their Norman and English neighbours for control over Wales.
Building on foundational studies of these chronicles by J. E. Lloyd, Thomas Jones, Kathleen Hughes, and others, this book seeks to enhance understanding of the texts by refining and complicating the ways in which they should be read as deliberate literary and historical productions. The studies in this volume make significant advances in this direction through fresh analyses of well-known texts, as well as through full studies, editions, and translations of five chronicles that had hitherto escaped notice.The chronicles of medieval Wales are a rich body of source material offering an array of perspectives on historical developments in Wales and beyond. Preserving unique records of events from the fifth to the fifteenth centuries, these chronicles form the essential narrative backbone of all modern accounts of medieval Welsh history. Most celebrated of all are the chronicles belonging to the Annales Cambriae and Brut y Tywysogyon families, which document the tumultuous struggles between the Welsh princes and their Norman and English neighbours for control over Wales.
Building on foundational studies of these chronicles by J. E. Lloyd, Thomas Jones, Kathleen Hughes, and others, this book seeks to enhance understanding of the texts by refining and complicating the ways in which they should be read as deliberate literary and historical productions. The studies in this volume make significant advances in this direction through fresh analyses of well-known texts, as well as through full studies, editions, and translations of five chronicles that had hitherto escaped notice.