La?amons �Brut� between Old English Heroic Poetry and Middle English Romance: A Study of the Lexical Fields Hero, Warrior and Knight

The two manuscripts of the early Middle English chronicle La?amon�s Brut, British Library MS Cotton Caligula A ix and British Library MS Cotton Otho C xiii, display marked differences in their use of vocabulary.\n\nWhereas the vocabulary of the Caligula manuscript is consciously archaising, the lexicon of the Otho text is more modern. This study of the lexical fields �hero�, �warrior� and �knight� in the Brut chronicle investigates both the backward orientation of the Caligula Brut towards Anglo-Saxon heroic poetry and the supposed orientation of the Otho Brut towards the newly emerging genre of the Middle English romance. The results highlight the creative use of Old English models in both manuscripts and disprove the hypothesised close link between the Otho Brut and the romance genre.La?amons �Brut� between Old English Heroic Poetry and Middle English Romance: A Study of the Lexical Fields Hero, Warrior and Knight 1st Edition is written by Christine Elsweiler and published by Peter Lang Gmb H, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften. ISBNs for La?amons �Brut� between Old English Heroic Poetry and Middle English Romance are 9783653009330, 3653009332 and the print ISBNs are 9783631596692, 3631596693.