Matter of Britain

El artículo analiza la traducción castellana de la Historia Regum Britanniae de Godofredo de Monmouth conservada en la General Estoria de Alfonso X. Se trata de una traducción del texto latino parcial y fragmentada, repartida en diversas secciones a lo largo de la crónica castellana. El estudio de la ubicación de las diferentes secciones bretonas y de los procedimientos estilísticos usados por los traductores en cada caso nos permitirá establecer la función de la Historia Regum Britanniae en el seno del proyecto historiográfico alfonsí y sus conexiones con la orientación ideológica de la General Estoria.

The mystery of Mount Sibyl in Italy is an ancient one, an enigma which is still unsolved. The mountain raises its peak between Umbria and Marche. The cave on the mountain-top has been visited for centuries by men from all over Europe in search of the legendary subterranean realm of the Sibyl of the Apennines. A quest that definitely is not over. This article is a literary ride through manuscripts and ancient books in search of hidden links: those between a Sibyl, the classical Sibyls, and the Italian Apennines. A fascinating travel from Isidore of Seville to Augustine of Hippo, from Lactantius to Publius Vergilius Maro, from Servius Marius Honoratus to Publis Papinius Statius, Suetonius and the Historia Augusta, from Marcus Terentius Varro to Pliny the Elder, and then Philippe de Thaon, the Mirabilis Liber, Ludovico Ariosto, Andrea da Barberino and Antoine de La Sale. A travel into mystery that still continues in our present days.

The ancient mystery of Mount Sibyl, the mountain that raises its peak between Umbria and Marche in Italy, is an enigma which is still unsolved. The cave on the mountain-top has been visited for centuries by visitors coming from all over Europe in search of the legendary subterranean realm of the Sibyl of the Apennines. A quest that definitely is not over. In this article Michele Sanvico illustrates a topic that has never been thoroughly analysed before: the medieval roots of the legend of the Apennine Sibyl, with the many links to earlier chivalric romances. For the first time ever, full details are provided, together with full reference to manuscripts, about the Apennine Sibyl's illustrious lineage from one of the main characters of the Arthurian cycle: Morgan le Fay. The aim of the paper is to ultimately unveil the true core of the legend by taking out the various, extraneous narrative layers that for centuries have sheltered the original mythical nucleus. This article is Part...

The mystery of Mount Sibyl in Italy is an ancient enigma which is still unsolved. The mountain raises its peak between Umbria and Marche. The cave on the mountain-top has been visited for centuries by men from all over Europe in search of the legendary subterranean realm of the Sibyl of the Apennines. A quest that definitely is not over. With this article Michele Sanvico carries out a thrilling search across authors spanning three different centuries: from Father Fortunato Ciucci to abbot Francesco Maurolico, from Johann Reger's edition of Ptolemy's Cosmographia to Adrien Baillet, down to Jean Germain, a fifteenth-century bishop of Chalon-sur-Saône, following the faint trace of a mention concerning the Sibyl of Norcia.

The mystery of Mount Sibyl in Italy is an ancient enigma which is still unsolved. The mountain raises its peak between Umbria and Marche. The cave on the mountain-top has been visited for centuries by men from all over Europe in search of the legendary subterranean realm of the Sibyl of the Apennines. A quest that definitely is not over. This article provides the results of a research on the ancient literary lineage of the magical ever-slamming doors that Antoine de la Sale mentioned in his "The Paradise of Queen Sibyl", a supernatural passage whose origin is to be retrieved in the Greek myth of Symplegades.

The mystery of Mount Sibyl in Italy is an ancient enigma which is still unsolved. The mountain raises its peak between Umbria and Marche. The cave on the mountain-top has been visited for centuries by men from all over Europe in search of the legendary subterranean realm of the Sibyl of the Apennines. A quest that definitely is not over. This article provides a full description of the ancient literary lineage of the magical bridge that Antoine de la Sale mentioned in his "The Paradise of Queen Sibyl", an invention he included in the account of his own visit to Mount Sibyl to astound and delight his courtly audience.

A major problem in the investigation of the myth of the Apennine Sibyl is the literary origin of such works as "Guerrino the Wretch" by Andrea da Barberino and "The Paradise of Queen Sibyl" by Antoine de La Sale. Where did they get their tales from? Which earlier sources did they draw on? In this paper we investigate a specific chivalric poem which has not been adequately analysed with relation to the Apennine Sibyl and her legend: "Huon d'Auvergne", a fourteenth-century epic poem.

This paper presents a new Castillian testimony of the Alphonsine Estoria de las Bretañas, copied in a factitious codex of the 14th and 15th centuries (BNE ms. 10146) that transmits, among other works, the Historia troyana polimétrica. It is a fragment of the Estoria de Bruto (Historia regum Britanniae §§ 6-14) added to the Historia troyana of Peter of Castile (ca. 1365-69). Its wording seems to date back to an Alphonsine work notebook based on the First variant version – perhaps through a French interposed compendium. In addition to a text editing, we provide a comparative analysis with the General estoria and the well-known Latin (the vulgate and the version variant) and French (Roman de Brut and Estoire de Brutus) sources.
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Se presenta en este ensayo un nuevo testimonio castellano de la Estoria de las Bretañas alfonsí, copiado en un códice facticio de los ss. XIV y XV (BNE ms. 10146) que transmite, entre otras obras, la Historia troyana polimétrica. Se trata de un fragmento de la Estoria de Bruto (Historia regum Britanniae §§ 6-14), incorporada a la Historia troyana de Pedro I (ca. 1365-69), cuya redacción parece remontar a un cuaderno de trabajo alfonsí basado en la Primera versión variante, quizás conocida a través de un compendio francés interpuesto. Se ofrece una edición del texto así como un análisis comparativo con la General estoria y las fuentes latinas –la vulgata y la variante– y francesas –el Roman de Brut y la Estoire de Brutus– conocidas.

The ancient mystery of Mount Sibyl, the mountain that raises its peak between Umbria and Marche in Italy, is an enigma which is still unsolved. The cave on the mountain-top has been visited for centuries by visitors coming from all over Europe in search of the legendary subterranean realm of the Sibyl of the Apennines. A quest that definitely is not over. In this article Michele Sanvico illustrates a topic that has never been thouroughly analysed before: the medieval roots of the legend of the Apennine Sibyl, with the many links to earlier chivalric romances. For the first time ever, full details are provided, together with full reference to manuscripts, about the Apennine Sibyl's illustrious lineage from one of the main characters of the Arthurian cycle: Morgan le Fay. The aim of the paper is to ultimately unveil the true core of the legend by taking out the various, extraneous narrative layers that for centuries have sheltered the original mythical nucleus. This article is Part 2 of the full paper on the above topic, and also part of an extended series of papers on the true origin of the Apennine Sibyl's and Pilatus Lakes' legends.

The ancient mystery of Mount Sibyl, the mountain that raises its peak between Umbria and Marche in Italy, is an enigma which is still unsolved. The cave on the mountain-top has been visited for centuries by visitors coming from all over Europe in search of the legendary subterranean realm of the Sibyl of the Apennines. A quest that definitely is not over. In this article Michele Sanvico illustrates a topic that has never been thouroughly analysed before: the medieval roots of the legend of the Apennine Sibyl, with the many links to earlier chivalric romances. For the first time ever, full details are provided, together with full reference to manuscripts, about the Apennine Sibyl's illustrious lineage from one of the main characters of the Arthurian cycle: Morgan le Fay. The aim of the paper is to ultimately unveil the true core of the legend by taking out the various, extraneous narrative layers that for centuries have sheltered the original mythical nucleus. This article is Part 1 of the full paper on the above topic, and also part of an extended series of papers o the true origing of the Apennine Sibyl's and Pilatus Lakes' legends.

The mystery of Mount Sibyl in Italy is an ancient one, an enigma which is still unsolved. The mountain raises its peak between Umbria and Marche. The cave on the mountain-top has been visited for centuries by men from all over Europe in search of the legendary subterranean realm of the Sibyl of the Apennines. A quest that definitely is not over. This article provides the results of a research on the ancient literary lineage of the magical ever-slamming doors that Antoine de la Sale mentioned in his "The Paradise of Queen Sibyl", a supernatural passage whose origin is to be retrieved in the Greek myth of Symplegades.

The mystery of Mount Sibyl in Italy is an ancient one, an enigma which is still unsolved. The mountain raises its peak between Umbria and Marche. The cave on the mountain-top has been visited for centuries by men from all over Europe in search of the legendary subterranean realm of the Sibyl of the Apennines. A quest that definitely is not over. This article provides a full description of the ancient literary lineage of the magical bridge that Antoine de la Sale mentioned in his "The Paradise of Queen Sibyl", an invention he included in the account of his own visit to Mount Sibyl to astound and delight his courtly audience.

Centre de Recherche Bretonne et Celtique / Université de Bretagne Occidentale et Université Rennes 2
Cet ouvrage est le fruit du colloque international Bretagne-Monde Anglophone : Bretagne Irlande, qui s’est tenu à l’Université de Bretagne Sud les 13 et 14 juin 2014 en partenariat entre les équipes de recherche CRBC et HCTI et avec le soutien de la Région Bretagne, de la ville de Lorient, du Festival Interceltique de Lorient et des universités Rennes 2 et UBS.
Cette manifestation, inscrite dans la continuité des premières rencontres BMA organisées par le CRBC à Brest et Quimper en 2012, s’est intéressée aux liens culturels historiques et contemporaines qui contribuent à la richesse des échanges et du dialogue entre la Bretagne et l’Irlande. Les actes, divisés en deux chapitres : « des origines à la post-modernité » et « capillarités artistiques et culturelles », proposent des analyses comparées des situations économiques, sociales et linguistiques de territoires qui, au-delà de capillarités mutuellement enrichissantes, posent des problématiques comparables.

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