Layamon's Brut and the March of Wales: Merlin, his Prophecies, and the Lex Marchia

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dc.contributor.authorHelbert, Daniel Glynnen
dc.contributor.committeechairMosser, Daniel W.en
dc.contributor.committeememberEska, Charlene M.en
dc.contributor.committeememberTiller, Kenneth J.en
dc.contributor.departmentEnglishen
dc.date.accessioned2017-04-04T19:50:36Zen
dc.date.adate2011-05-18en
dc.date.available2017-04-04T19:50:36Zen
dc.date.issued2011-04-08en
dc.date.rdate2016-09-30en
dc.date.sdate2011-04-22en
dc.description.abstractThis study explores Layamon's engenderment of cultural unification for the explicit purposes of an Anglo-Welsh cultural resistance to the Norman overlords in the March of Wales. In essence, I examine some of the most important cultural signifiers in medieval English and Welsh culture and the methods by which the poet adapts and grafts them together to form a culturally amalgamated text—neither explicitly English nor Welsh but yet simultaneously both - and the political implications of this amalgamation. Though Laymon's methodology emanates from multiple aspects of the text, I have concentrated here on what I feel are the most explicit manifestations of this theme: Merlin, his prophecies, and the Law of the March.en
dc.description.degreeMaster of Artsen
dc.identifier.otheretd-04222011-182828en
dc.identifier.sourceurlhttp://scholar.lib.vt.edu/theses/available/etd-04222011-182828/en
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10919/76961en
dc.language.isoen_USen
dc.publisherVirginia Techen
dc.rightsIn Copyrighten
dc.rights.urihttp://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/en
dc.subjectProphecyen
dc.subjectBritish Historyen
dc.subjectLayamonen
dc.subjectMerlinen
dc.subjectNorman Conquesten
dc.subject"March of Wales"en
dc.subjectMarch Lawen
dc.subjectMiddle Agesen
dc.subjectLex Marchiaen
dc.subjectcultural unificationen
dc.subjectMiddle Welshen
dc.subjectmedieval historiographyen
dc.subjectLayamonen
dc.subjectLazamonen
dc.subjectLawmanen
dc.subjectMiddle Englishen
dc.subjectrevolutionen
dc.titleLayamon's Brut and the March of Wales: Merlin, his Prophecies, and the Lex Marchiaen
dc.typeThesisen
dc.type.dcmitypeTexten
thesis.degree.disciplineEnglishen
thesis.degree.grantorVirginia Polytechnic Institute and State Universityen
thesis.degree.levelmastersen
thesis.degree.nameMaster of Artsen

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