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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Historia regum Britanniae"”.
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Welsh Manipulations of the Matter of Britain
… relationships between Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia regum Britanniae and the Welsh Brut y Brenhinedd in the Cotton Cleopatra manuscript. This thesis initially provides an overview of the existing scholarship surrounding the Welsh translations of Geoffrey's Historia with a specific focus on …
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Visualizing Ancient Empire in Tudor England: Imperial Monarchy, Reformation, and the Antique Soldier in the Title Page to Richard Grafton’s Large Chronicle (1569)
… primordial kings of Britain described in the <em>Historia Regum Britanniae </em>of Geoffrey of Monmouth. This thesis argues that the <em>Large Chronicle</em> evinces a conscious “connecting of the dots” in the Tudor mind between defense of the traditional historical record, received from the late …
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Spenser's Twin Pillars of the Kingdom: Arthur, Elizabeth, and the Medieval Tradition of Translatio Studii et Imperii
Translatio studii et imperii stood as the governing metaphor and principal method of medieval authors to explain changes in political power and romanticize the past. In this project, I examine medieval and early-modern conceptions of political power in Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene and the …