Walter Map and the Matter of Britain
- ISBN-10
- 0812249321
- ISBN-13
- 9780812249323
- Category
- Foreign Language Study
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2017-07-07
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press
- Author
- Joshua Byron Smith
Description
Why would the thirteenth-century French prose Lancelot-Grail Cycle have been attributed to Walter Map, a twelfth-century writer from the Anglo-Welsh borderlands? Joshua Byron Smith sets out to answer this and other questions and offers a new explanation for how narratives about the pre-Saxon inhabitants of Britain circulated in England.
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