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A comprehensive and objective study of Layamon's sources is long overdue. As a first step Françoise le Saux investigates the English poet's handling of his main source, Wace's Roman de Brut, to determine what principles guided the composition of the English Brut. These established, she is able to distinguish between different sorts of variation from the Roman, thereby providing norms against which to gauge the probability of further, secondary...

Essays reflecting the present state of Layamon studies, identifying problems and outlining current directions in research.

Guide to the works of the twelfth-century chronicler Wace, setting him in his historical and cultural context.