Medievalists.net » Mabinogion http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 03:31:17 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Lewis Morris and the Mabinogion http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/13/lewis-morris-and-the-mabinogion/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/08/13/lewis-morris-and-the-mabinogion/#comments Mon, 13 Aug 2012 21:25:39 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=34742 Lewis Morris (1700/1-1765) was regarded as the foremost Welsh antiquary and authority on Welsh literature of his day. A founding member of the Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion in 1751his expertise on Welsh literature and history was solicited by Welsh poets and antiquaries alike.

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to be a relatively new field, having achieved real momentum only in the latter half of the twentieth century. However, since it was the early fifteenth century when Christine de Pisan wrote a response to Jean de Meun’s Romance of the Rose, it cannot really be imagined that the medieval audience was too primitive to be fully aware of the subtext inside their stories.

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