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Havelok in the Prose Brut Tradition by Julia Marvin HE written versions of the story of Havelok most widely distrib- uted in the Middle Ages are also among the least known today: Tthey are found not in romance, nor even in verse, but in the prose Brut chronicles. Surviving in some 50 manuscripts in Anglo-Norman, 180 in English, and 20 in later Latin versions, the prose Brut in its vari- ous manifestations was the most popular secular, vernacular work of the late Middle Ages in England. As Lister Matheson says, ‘‘as a cul- tural artifact the Brut is of the first importance.’’ From its oldest Anglo- Norman version, running from the fall of Troy to 1272 and thought to have been composed near the end of the thirteenth century, to its thir- teen printed editions of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, and be- yond that through the works it influenced, the Brut provided genera- tions of English readers with a fundamental narrative of the history of their land. In his 1828 edition of the Middle English Havelok, Frederic Madden printed extracts from the prose Bruts, observing that the Havelok tra- th th dition was ‘‘not only admitted from the
Studies in Philology – University of North Carolina Press
Published: Jul 5, 2005
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