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In the following essay, Shichtman contrasts the way Wace and Layamon portray Sir Gawain and narrate his history, and argues that the difference in their approaches is the result of their disimilaritie...
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In the following essay, Noble argues for Wace's influence on Renaut de Beaujeu's romance Le Bel Inconnu.
Critics are generally agreed that Renaut de Beaujeu had an excellent knowledge of...
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In the following essay, Buttry argues that Wace's account of a peasant revolt shows his sympathy for their plight rather than the aristocratic disdain that has been attributed to him.
The twelf...
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In the following essay, Finke and Shlichtman contrast the ways Wace and Layamon present rape in their narrations of the Arthurian legend.
We could find no better means to illustrate in popular culture...
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In the following essay, Eley and Bennett compare three accounts of the Battle of Hastings, including that by Wace.
According to Jean Blacker, the Norman Conquest was ‘the most visible cause of ...
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In the following essay, written in 1938, Houck examines the techniques through which Wace transforms Geoffrey of Monmouth's narrative history into a stylized work approaching fiction.
Most of t...
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In the following essay, Brosnahan outlines Wace's use of proverbs and explores the narrative, literary, and dramatic functions they serve in his work.
Pvr remembrer des ancesurs Les feiz e les ...
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In the following essay, Carr demonstrates the numerological basis for the structure of Wace's Vie de Saint Nicholas.
The latent structural qualities of medieval poetry were first brought forcef...
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In the following essay, Box and Deyermond argue that there are references to Wace's work in the medieval Portuguese Arthurian poem Livro de Josep Abarimatia.
The Portuguese Livro de Josep Abari...
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Critical Essay by Martin B. Shichtman
