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The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions (Northern World): 24
Author(s): Glyn S Burgess (Editor), Clara Strijbosch
- Publisher: Brill
- Publication Date: 30 July 2006
- Edition: Illustrated
- Language: English
- Print length: 398 pages
- ISBN-10: 9004152474
- ISBN-13: 9789004152472
Book Description
The Brendan Legend: Texts and Versions deals with the vast textual tradition relating to the Irish Saint Brendan, known as ‘The Navigator’. Stories about Brendan have been popular in the whole of Western Europe, from the seventh to the twentieth century. The themes of the book are the interrelated problems of the textual and literary embedding of Brendan texts. For the first time researchers in Celtic, German, Latin and Romance languages and literatures have co-operated on the Brendan tradition, and they have mapped the changes in textual traditions according to different circumstances and audiences. This book will be important to those studying the influence of Celtic literature on the European Continent, and, more generally, to those interested in the versatility of textual traditions in Western Europe.
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About the Author
Glyn S. Burgess, Docteur de l’Université de Paris (Sorbonne) (1968) is Emeritus Professor of French at the University of Liverpool. He has published extensively on the legend of St Brendan, Wace and the Lais of Marie de France. He is the joint author, with Clara Strijbosch, of The Legend of St Brendan: A Critical Bibliography (Dublin, 2000).
Clara Strijbosch, Doctorate (summa cum laude) 1995 in Medieval Dutch Literature at Utrecht University, is an independent researcher and literary critic and has taught in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Antwerpen, Galway, Düsseldorf, Durban and Vienna. In 2000 she published The Seafaring Saint (Dublin).
Clara Strijbosch, Doctorate (summa cum laude) 1995 in Medieval Dutch Literature at Utrecht University, is an independent researcher and literary critic and has taught in Utrecht, Amsterdam, Antwerpen, Galway, Düsseldorf, Durban and Vienna. In 2000 she published The Seafaring Saint (Dublin).
