Wace's Roman de Brut

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Wace's Roman de Brut is a 12th-century Norman French verse chronicle that popularized and adapted the legendary history of the kings of Britain, including early Arthurian material, for a courtly audience.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf Arthurian text
Norman French literary work
medieval chronicle
verse chronicle
adaptationType vernacular adaptation of Latin historiography
alternateTitle Brut
linked to: Brut Tysilio

Roman de Brut
associatedWith Plantagenet court
audience courtly audience
author Wace
basedOn Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae
commissionedBy Henry II of England
countryOfOrigin Duchy of Normandy
culturalRole mediated British legendary history to continental audiences
dateWritten 12th century
function courtly entertainment
didactic historiography
genre chronicle
romance
historicity mixes legend and pseudo-history
includesCharacter King Arthur
King Brutus of Troy
linked to: Brutus of Troy

King Lear
Merlin
influenced Layamon's Brut
Middle English chronicle tradition
later French Arthurian romance
language Norman French
Old French
literaryForm octosyllabic rhymed couplets
literaryMovement Anglo-Norman literature
literaryTradition Brut tradition
manuscriptTradition survives in multiple medieval manuscripts
meter octosyllabic verse
narrativeScope history of Britain from its legendary Trojan origins to the 7th century
notableFor early vernacular Arthurian material
introducing the Round Table into Arthurian literature
popularizing Geoffrey of Monmouth's British history in the vernacular
period High Middle Ages
placeInArthurianCanon one of the earliest extended Arthurian narratives in French
region Anglo-Norman world
linked to: Anglo-Norman
relatedWork Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae
Layamon's Brut
setting Britain
linked to: Great Britain
sourceLanguageOfBaseText Latin
style courtly narrative verse
subject Arthurian legend
legendary kings of Britain
targetLanguage vernacular French

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Historia Regum Britanniae influenced Wace's Roman de Brut
Historia Regum Britanniae influenced Layamon's Brut
linked to: Wace's Roman de Brut
Geoffrey of Monmouth (literary consolidation) influenced Wace’s Roman de Brut
linked to: Wace's Roman de Brut
Geoffrey of Monmouth (literary consolidation) influenced Layamon’s Brut
linked to: Wace's Roman de Brut
Middle English Brut adaptationOf Anglo-Norman Brut chronicle
linked to: Wace's Roman de Brut
Roman de Rou relatedWork Roman de Brut
linked to: Wace's Roman de Brut
Wace's Roman de Brut alternateTitle Roman de Brut
linked to: Wace's Roman de Brut
Anglo-Norman literature hasNotableWork Roman de Brut
linked to: Wace's Roman de Brut
Anglo-Norman literature hasNotableWork Anglo-Norman Brut chronicles
linked to: Wace's Roman de Brut