Judith Weiss

Ivana Djordjevic

Nicole Clifton

This first ever English translation of a significant representative of the French literature of medieval England offers an ideal volume for a variety of undergraduate and graduate courses. The fast-moving romance plot of the early thirteenth-century Le Roman de Waldef recounts the ancestry and exploits of Waldef and his two sons, set against a history of pre-Conquest England. The narrative shares themes and incident types with other important insular romances and its scope, which covers battle, political stratagems, secret love affairs, and adventures across the world connect it with medieval chronicle, romance literature, and travel narrative.

A French Romance from Medieval England

Waldef

Wace

Translation of the first extant vernacular 'history' of Britain by the Norman-French cleric Wace, which in turn, was a translation of the Latin prose of Geoffrey of Monmouth's History of the Kings of Britain (c.1138). Part fact, and part fiction, it traces the history of Britain from Brutus to the Anglo-Saxons.

Judith Weiss

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