The Trojan legend became hot property during the Anglo-Scots Wars of Independence. During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, the English traced their ancestry to Brutus and the Trojans and used this origin myth to bolster their claims to lordship and ownership of Scotland; while in...

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1. Verfasser:	Wingfield, Emily 1985- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Cambridge Brewer 2014
Ausgabe:	1. publ.
Schlagworte:	Geschichte 1375-1513 Rezeption Trojanischer Sagenkreis Literatur Schottland
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Zusammenfassung:	The Trojan legend became hot property during the Anglo-Scots Wars of Independence. During the late thirteenth and early fourteenth centuries, the English traced their ancestry to Brutus and the Trojans and used this origin myth to bolster their claims to lordship and ownership of Scotland; while in a game of political one-upmanship, and in order to prove Scotland's independence and sovereignty, Scottish historians instead traced their nation's origins to a Greek prince, Gaythelos, and his Egyptian wife, Scota. Despite the wealth of scholarship on the Trojan legend in English and European literature, very little has been done on Scotland's literary response to the same legend, even though a mere glance at the canonical material of late medieval Scotland indicates that it remained equally current north of the Border, a gap which this book fills
Beschreibung:	Literaturverz. S. [197] - 225
Beschreibung:	X, 236 S. Ill.