Medievalists.net » Y Gododdin http://www.medievalists.net Where the Middle Ages Begin Mon, 07 Dec 2015 05:01:19 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.9.9 Depictions of the Scots in the Arthurian Legend http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/depictions-of-the-scots-in-the-arthurian-legend/ http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/depictions-of-the-scots-in-the-arthurian-legend/#comments Wed, 22 Jan 2014 21:40:26 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=46897 Depictions of the Scots in the Arthurian Legend Diana Jefferies Journal of the Sydney Society for Scottish History: Vol 14 (2013) Abstract This paper will explore how motifs of Scotland and Scottishness are portrayed in medieval versions of the Arthurian Legend. I will discuss how the context of what is alleged to be the first […]

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2014/01/22/depictions-of-the-scots-in-the-arthurian-legend/feed/ 0 The Prince and the Poet http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/the-prince-and-the-poet/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/the-prince-and-the-poet/#comments Thu, 28 Jun 2012 21:17:37 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=33287 In this essay, I will discuss the historical importance of panegyric poetry as a performative act, representing a component of a lord's self-perception. I will limit myself, for the sake of time and for the sake of presenting a clear picture, to the poetry of the age of the Gogynfeirdd or not-so-early poets (about 1100 to 1282), representing the strongest tradition of patronage of poetry and a period of increased Welsh political independence.

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]]> http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/28/the-prince-and-the-poet/feed/ 0 Constructions of Gender in Medieval Welsh Literature http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/constructions-of-gender-in-medieval-welsh-literature/ http://www.medievalists.net/2012/06/17/constructions-of-gender-in-medieval-welsh-literature/#comments Mon, 18 Jun 2012 04:48:53 +0000 http://www.medievalists.net/?p=32891 The discussion of gender in medieval literary criticism is generally considered
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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