Wace's Roman de Brut

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Arthurian text Norman French literary work medieval chronicle verse chronicle

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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Observed surface forms (5)

Surface form	Occurrences
Anglo-Norman Brut chronicle	1
Layamon's Brut	1
Layamon’s Brut	1
Roman de Brut	1
Wace’s Roman de Brut	1

Statements (49)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	Arthurian text ⓘ Norman French literary work ⓘ medieval chronicle ⓘ verse chronicle ⓘ
adaptationType	vernacular adaptation of Latin historiography ⓘ
alternateTitle	Brut NERFINISHED ⓘ Roman de Brut NERFINISHED ⓘ
associatedWith	Plantagenet court ⓘ
audience	courtly audience ⓘ
author	Wace NERFINISHED ⓘ
basedOn	Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae NERFINISHED ⓘ
commissionedBy	Henry II of England NERFINISHED ⓘ
countryOfOrigin	Duchy of Normandy NERFINISHED ⓘ
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 NERFINISHED ⓘ King Brutus of Troy NERFINISHED ⓘ King Lear NERFINISHED ⓘ Merlin NERFINISHED ⓘ
influenced	Layamon's Brut NERFINISHED ⓘ Middle English chronicle tradition ⓘ later French Arthurian romance ⓘ
language	Norman French ⓘ Old French ⓘ
literaryForm	octosyllabic rhymed couplets ⓘ
literaryMovement	Anglo-Norman literature NERFINISHED ⓘ
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 NERFINISHED ⓘ
placeInArthurianCanon	one of the earliest extended Arthurian narratives in French ⓘ
region	Anglo-Norman world NERFINISHED ⓘ
relatedWork	Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae NERFINISHED ⓘ Layamon's Brut NERFINISHED ⓘ
setting	Britain NERFINISHED ⓘ
sourceLanguageOfBaseText	Latin ⓘ
style	courtly narrative verse ⓘ
subject	Arthurian legend NERFINISHED ⓘ legendary kings of Britain ⓘ
targetLanguage	vernacular French ⓘ

Referenced by (6)

Full triples — surface form annotated when it differs from this entity's canonical label.

Middle English Brut → adaptationOf → Wace's Roman de Brut ⓘ

this entity surface form: Anglo-Norman Brut chronicle

Geoffrey of Monmouth (literary consolidation) → influenced → Wace's Roman de Brut ⓘ

this entity surface form: Wace’s Roman de Brut

Geoffrey of Monmouth (literary consolidation) → influenced → Wace's Roman de Brut ⓘ

this entity surface form: Layamon’s Brut

Historia Regum Britanniae → influenced → Wace's Roman de Brut ⓘ

this entity surface form: Layamon's Brut

Roman de Rou → relatedWork → Wace's Roman de Brut ⓘ

this entity surface form: Roman de Brut