부산대학교 도서관

This monograph challenges the assumption that English and Welsh literary cultures functioned in isolation from one another. Rather, literature from the borderlands of medieval England and Wales c.1250–1485 reveals a complex matrix of identity and power dynamics negotiated through historical memory. Baronial families in this region, particularly the Mortimers of Wigmore and the lords of Brecon, drew on their ancestral Welsh connections and refashioned the canonical histories of native Wales in order to gain political authority in the region. Their interest in the Welsh past cultivated a range of romances, genealogies, and chronicles, such as the romance of Fouke le Fitz Waryn, the Genealogy of the Lords of Brecknock, and the Epitome historiae Britanniae (an adaptation of Geoffrey of Monmouth). In reimagining the British–Welsh past, these families reshaped transmission networks that drew Welsh texts from the ‘periphery’ into England, amplifying Welsh influence on the political and literary landscape of medieval Britain.