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Translating Troy: Provincial Politics In Alliterative Romance, Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller

For Geoffrey Chaucer and many of his contemporaries, the literary life of England began in ancient Troy. In Translating Troy: Provincial Politics in Alliterative Romance, Alex Mueller explores Middle English alliterative romances that challenge this genealogical fantasy and decentralize Troy as the eastern origin of western authority.

Until the sixteenth century, the Trojans were widely believed to be the ancestors of the English people: the destruction of Troy led to the birth of Rome and eventually the foundation of a New Troy in Britain. In the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, the fall of Troy was such a popular subject that …

The Historiography Of The Dragon: Heraldic Violence In The Alliterative Morte Arthure, Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller

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Wikipedia As Imago Mundi, Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller

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Linking Letters: Translating Ancient History Into Medieval Romance, Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller

In his prologue to the late fourteenth-century romance, the Destruction of Troy, John Clerk of Whalley negotiates between his roles as translator, historian and alliterative poet to introduce his account of the fall of Troy for medieval English readers. Professing to tell the true story of Britain’s ancient ancestors, he invokes the fiction of translatio imperii, in which the power of empire passes from Troy to Rome to Britain. According to Clerk, his translation of Guido delle Colonne’s Historia destructionis Troiae provides vernacular readers access to historical truth that had not previously been available to them. Clerk’s assumption of Guido’s …

“The Soft Beauty Of The Latin Word": Experiencing Latin In James Joyce’S A Portrait Of The Artist As A Young Man., Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller

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Corporal Terror: Critiques Of Imperialism In The Siege Of Jerusalem, Alex Mueller

Alex Mueller

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