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December 2001

Vol. 32 The Abridged English Metrical Brut

Purchase this volume Edited by Una O’Farrel-Tate The ‘Abridged English Metrical Brut’ is a verse history of the king of Britain which exists in seven manuscripts and fragments. One version was edited in 1935 as ‘An Anonymous Short English Metrical Chronicle’, but the closest literary relations of this text are found in the ‘Brut’ tradition. The Royal manuscript contains a… Read More »Vol. 32 The Abridged English Metrical Brut