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Article: The Prose 'Brut': The Development of a Middle English Chronicle.(Review)
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- The Modern Language Review
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- January 1, 2001
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The Prose 'Brut': The Development of a Middle English Chronicle. By LISTER M. MATHESON. (Medieval and Renaissance Texts & Studies, 180) Tempe, AZ: Medieval & Renaissance Texts and Studies. 1998. xxxvi + 388 pp. 26 [pounds sterling]; $30.
This volume has been eagerly awaited and its publication is most welcome, helping to fill one of the largest gaps in Middle English studies and vernacular historical writing. The previous work by Lister Matheson on the prose Brut and Donald Kennedy's Chronicles and Other Historical Writing (Manual of the Writings in Middle English, VIII (1989)) have provided useful outline maps of the subject, but this new volume gives a much fuller ...