Medium Aevum, March 22nd, 1998
Andrew Breeze, Medieval Welsh Literature (Dublin: Four Courts Press, 1997). 174 pp. ISBN 1-85182-229-1. 27.50 [pounds sterling].
Within just 150 pages of text, Andrew Breeze strives to provide a survey of Welsh literature from the very earliest poetry to the early sixteenth century. The dust-jacket confidently informs us that this book is `the first general history of the literature of medieval Wales'. Even with regard to publications in English, this is simply not the case. The two volumes of Jarman and Rees Hughes's Guide to Welsh Literature have been available since 1976 (revised 1992) a...
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