‘Britones a Troianis duxerunt originem’: Historia Meriadoci, De ortu Waluuanii and their Galfridian companion-text in BL MS Cotton Faustina B VI

2020 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 63-97
Author(s):  
Thomas H. Crofts
Keyword(s):  
British History ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Sir Gawain ◽  
The Third ◽  
Manuscript Context

Abstract When a reader encounters the Latin romances Historia Meriadoci and De ortu Waluuanii in BL MS Cotton Faustina B VI, the romances are only the first two in a set of three texts copied by the same scribe on the same occasion. The third text, following directly on De ortu Waluuanii, is an abstract of books 1–6 of Geoffrey of Monmouth’s De gestis Britonum. While valuable in its own right as a witness to the DGB’s use and manuscript circulation, the abstract is presented and investigated here for what it may tell us about the Latin romances’ own transmission and reception, which have long been shrouded in mystery. As I argue, the abstract’s juxtaposition with the romances is no accident, and figures importantly in the romances’ presentation. Much as the opening stanzas of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight set the stage for King Arthur, in fact, the Latin synopsis begins with the fall of Troy and Brutus’ foundation of Britain before (much more expansively than the Gawain-poet) recounting the war and wrack of early British history, concluding with Merlin’s revelation to Vortigern of the warring dragons. In this and other ways this Galfridian abstract causes the Latin romances to quicken with correspondences to Geoffrey’s work; this effect may even suggest for the romances a date of composition not distant from that of the DGB itself. By exploring the interpretive possibilities of this widened manuscript context, the present paper seeks to initiate a re-examination of these mysterious Latin romances in relation to their Galfridian companion-text. This article concludes with an edition of the abstract itself, which until now has not been edited or translated.

From Seeker to Finder: A Study in Seventeenth-Century English Spiritualism Before The Quakers

1948 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 299-315 ◽  
Author(s):  
George Arthur Johnson
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
Civil Wars ◽  
Small Groups ◽  
Holy Spirit ◽  
British History ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Holy Spirit ◽  
Third Person ◽  
The Third Person ◽  
The Trinity

The period of the Civil Wars and Commonwealth in England was one of the most momentous epochs in British history. For small groups of people the decade of the 1640's inaugurated a New Age—an age in which the Holy Spirit reigned triumphant. Such believers reached the zenith of Puritan “spiritualism,” or that movement which placed the greatest emphasis upon the Third Person of the Trinity.

And yet it turns («Three Romes» in the Mikhail Bulgakov’s «Flight»)

2021 ◽  
pp. 91-101
Author(s):  
Evgeny Yablokov ◽  
Keyword(s):  
King Arthur ◽  
The Third ◽  
City Space ◽  
The City ◽  
Historical Life

The article analyzes the symbolic plot of the Bulgakov’s play «Flight» – especially the images of the three «Romes» formed in the subtext. The parody image of the “second” Rome / Constantinople / Tsaregrad is of primary importance. The dominant place in the city space is occupied by a «spinner»with a cockroach races, which is owned by the burlesque-infernal «king» Arthur. Constantinople / «second» Rome acts as the «epicenter» of earthly, historical life (of general «run») and at the same time it appears in a buffoonery theatrical, «profane» form. The connotations of the «first» (eternal) Rome in the play are connecting with Khludov, who ultimately prefers «heavenly» being to the earthly world. The associations with the «third» Rome, contrary to tradition, do not refer to Moscow (this toponym is not mentioned in the play at all), but to Kiev.

The Nine Huntings

Antiquity ◽  
1934 ◽  
Vol 8 (29) ◽  
pp. 73-80
Author(s):  
Iorwerth C. Peate
Keyword(s):  
The Other ◽  
Present Writer ◽  
British History ◽  
The Third ◽  
First Time

In his appendix (pages 84–5) to his Changes in the Fauna of Wales within Historic Times, Mr Colin Matheson, refers to ‘ the old Welsh text known as Y Naw Helwriaeth or The Nine Huntings [which] has been generally regarded as setting forth the hunting customs among the early Welsh ’. This text has been published in the Myvyrian Archaiology (2nd edition, pp. 872-3) and in Dr John Davies’s Dictionarium duplex (1632). Both these printed texts however differ in various details from the three known manuscript versions, and while the versions of two of the manuscripts are fairly similar, that of the third differs markedly from the other two. An edition with annotations in Welsh of the three manuscript texts was published (for the first time) by the present writer in 1933. It was thought that since the texts presented problems of interest to students of British history, a collated translation of the two texts together with a translation of the third, and differing, text would prove to be of value to those unacquainted with Welsh.

scholarly journals CORPO FEMININO: CORPO SUBMISSO? A MULHER NAS NARRATIVAS DE SIR GAWAIN

2008 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristiane da Silva Alves
Keyword(s):  
Middle Ages ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Sir Gawain ◽  
The Church ◽  
The Middle Ages ◽  
The Way

RESUMO: A partir do estudo do contexto medieval e fazendo uso do imaginário como operador teórico, o presente trabalho trata da análise de textos extraídos da obra Sir Gawain – Cavaleiro da Távola Redonda: Ciclo do Rei Arthur, averiguando especificamente o modo como neles a mulher é tratada. No decorrer da Idade Média, e sob o domínio da Igreja, vai se acentuando a condenação da luxúria, da sexualidade e do “portão” destes “males”, da grande veiculadora – a mulher. A fim de minimizar seus potenciais maléficos, pregava a Igreja o discurso da inferioridade e da submissão feminina. O que este estudo pretende investigar é se as mulheres nas narrativas arthurianas eram apresentadas em consonância com os ideais monásticos. ABSTRACT: Starting from the study of the medieval context and using the imaginary as theoretical operator, this work analyses texts extracted from Sir Gawain – Cavaleiro da Távola Redonda: Ciclo do Rei Arthur, specifically checking the way they describe woman. During the Middle Ages, under the dominion of the Church, the condemnation of the luxury increases, as well as the condemnation of the sexuality and of the “gate” of those evils, the great vehicle – the woman. In order to diminish her malign power, the Church preached the speech of the inferiority and of the female submission. The aim of this study is to investigate if the women in the Arthurian narratives were portrayed according to the monastic ideals. KEYWORDS: Middle Ages – Woman – Cycle of King Arthur

Joseph Armitage Robinson, Glastonbury and Historical Remembrance

2021 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 228-245
Author(s):  
Mark D. Chapman
Keyword(s):  
British History ◽  
King Arthur ◽  
Holy Grail ◽  
Parish Priest ◽  
Local Parish ◽  
Historical Investigation ◽  
Relationship Of ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
Made In

Abstract This article discusses the relationship of history, theology and mythmaking with reference to the myths of Glastonbury. These related to the legends associated with Joseph of Arimathea’ purported visit to England, the burial place of King Arthur, as well as the quest for the Holy Grail. It draws on the work of Joseph Armitage Robinson (1858–1933), one of the most important Biblical and patristic scholars of his generation who, after becoming Dean of Westminster and later Dean of Wells Cathedral in Somerset, and close to Glastonbury, became a distinguished medievalist. After assessing the development of the Glastonbury legends and the use of early British history made in the earlier Anglican tradition, particularly in the work of Archbishop Matthew Parker (1504–1575), it goes on to discuss their revival in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries especially under the local parish priest Lionel Smithett Lewis (1867–1953). It concludes by showing that while there might be no historical substance in the myths, that there is nevertheless an important history to devotion and piety which is as equally open to theological and historical investigation as the events of history.

scholarly journals I.—Hardknot Castle and the Tenth Antonine Itinerary

Archaeologia ◽  
1921 ◽  
Vol 71 ◽  
pp. 1-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
R. G. Collingwood
Keyword(s):  
British History ◽  
The Third ◽  
History Of ◽  
Complete Rejection ◽  
Hadrian's Wall

The Tenth Iter in the British section of the Antonine road-book has been for many years–indeed for centuries–a standing puzzle in Romano-British history. Of its nine stations the seventh, Mancunium, has always been recognized as Manchester; but the others are not so easily identifiable. The first, third, and fifth reappear in the Notitia Dignitatum towards the end of the section headed item per lineam valli; but it has long been admitted by everyone that they are not therefore necessarily to be sought on Hadrian's Wall itself. Camden, on the strength of an inscription found by Reginald Bainbrigg at Whitley Castle near Alston, identified that fort with Alone, the third station of the Iter; and Horsley, accepting this identification, made the Iter begin at Lanchester and traverse a series of stations lying behind Hadrian's Wall and acting as supports to it, before turning south by way of the Eden and Lune valleys to Manchester. That was a good solution, and indeed the best possible solution, granted the correctness of the equation Alone = Whitley Castle; but it necessitated the complete rejection of the mileages as given in the Iter, since the hundred statute miles from Whitley to Manchester are represented by 83 Roman miles or about 76 statute miles between Alone and Mancunium. Moreover, Camden's identification was unsound. The Notitia places the Third Cohort of Nervii at Alone (spelt in that document Alione) and Bainbrigg's inscription mentioned the Second Cohort. Camden arbitrarily altered the numeral in order to effect the identification.

The Left in Britain in the Twentieth Century

2000 ◽  
Vol 57 ◽  
pp. 103-106
Author(s):  
John Callaghan
Keyword(s):  
Doctoral Students ◽  
Labor Movement ◽  
Trade Unions ◽  
Research University ◽  
Historical Research ◽  
British History ◽  
Annual Conference ◽  
University Departments ◽  
The Third ◽  
Age Range

The eleventh annual conference of the Institute of Contemporary British History was held at the Institute of Historical Research, University of London, July 12–16, 1999. The first day was largely concerned with British Marxist and socialist movements; the second concentrated on the trade unions and comparative perspectives; the third and fourth days focused on the Labour party; and the conference concluded with a day on the future of the Left. The conference was male-dominated to about the same proportion as most university departments in Britain, but the age range of participants was broad and involved doctoral students as well as professors. Only two papers were presented on women in the labor movement, and although participants addressed issues concerned with identity and ethnicity, there was nothing directly concerned with imperialism or immigrants from Britain's former colonies and their British-born offspring.

scholarly journals The law of bare life

2021 ◽  
Vol 72 (S1) ◽  
pp. 186-211
Author(s):  
Ian Ward
Keyword(s):  
British History ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
The Third ◽  
The Past ◽  
Uk Government ◽  
The Law ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Uk

2020 proved to be a remarkable year. Not the least remarkable was the realisation that, in a moment of perceived crisis, the instinctive response of the UK Government was to sweep away various so-called rights and liberties which might, in a calmer moment, have been presumed fundamental, and to rule by means of executive fiat. The purpose of this article is to interrogate both the premise and the consequence. Because, on closer inspection, there is nothing at all remarkable about how the Government reacted, for the same reason that there was little that was unprecedented about the experience of COVID-19. History is full of pandemics and epidemics, and government invariably acts in the same way. The first part of this article will revisit a particular theory of governance, again proved by history; that which brings together ‘bio-politics’ and the jurisprudence of the ‘exception’. The second part of the article will then revisit a prescient moment in British history; another disease, another panicked government, another lockdown. In the third, we will reflect further on the experience of COVID-19 and wonder what might be surmised from our foray into the past.

Thrice Three: Trifunctional Structure in the Third Fitt of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Arthuriana ◽  
1994 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-195
Author(s):  
Sibusiso Hyacinth Mdluli
Keyword(s):  
Sir Gawain ◽  
The Third
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