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Medievalista, 2022 There is a historiographical tradition that connects King Arthur with royal messianism, expressed by the belief that some insular ethnic groups (Cornish, Welsh, and Bretons) had in his return. This hope, known in historiography as “the Breton hope”3, was
Isadora Cristine Martins
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SELIMReview of Moghaddassi, Fanny. 2025. Space in Medieval Romance: Constructing Narrative Space in the Middle English Breton Lays. Geocriticism and Spatial Literary Studies. Cham: Palgrave Macmillan. Pp. xv + 304. ISBN 9783031809521.
Anne Laskaya
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On the sources and transmission of the Early Vannetais noëls
La Bretagne Linguistique, 2013 This paper investigates the background of the Early Vannetais noëls (NG; ed. Hemon 1956), our earliest specimen of Vannetais Breton of substantial length.
Anders Richardt Jørgensen
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Évolutions anciennes et récentes en breton
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1985 Breton is a language that has undergone a great deal of change, especially over the last century, with the transition from an almost monolingual to a bilingual society. We propose here to take a quick look at two aspects of Breton's evolution; the first,
Léon Fleuriot
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Mihi est from Brythonic to Breton II: The nominative object
, 2021 Middle Breton (MB) presents a singular anomaly of pronominal argument coding. Objects are accusative proclitics save in two constructions, where coding is split by person: 3rd unique enclitics ~ 1st/2nd accusative proclitics.
Rezac
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La signalisation bilingue des noms de communes en Bretagne bretonnante
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1990 The way Breton parish names were written followed the vagaries of the spellings in use during the ducal period, and then during the French monarchy. The habits of the chancellery played an important role in this.
Alan J. Raude
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Perspectives Médiévales, 2021 The definitions put forward by Gérard Genette in Palimpsestes have enabled to study central forms of rewriting in medieval literature in a new way.
Mireille Séguy
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La Vie de Geneviève de Brabant : la langue comme écran et révélateur
La Bretagne Linguistique, 1985 The text I am going to discuss here, La Vie de Geneviève de Brabant, is a play with a well-known title, but it is more precisely a version written in 1640, probably by a Jesuit father.
Gwenaël Le Duc
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Middle Breton cazas lin and canastr lin ‘flax shives’
Etudes Celtiques, 2021 The paper presents a new etymology for a rare Middle Breton word known only from entries in the Cms. and the Ca., cazas (lin)‘shives, the woody portion of flax’ translated by Latin napta ‘naphtha, mineral pitch, bitumen’. A borrowing from Northern Gallo-Romance * kaðass-< Lat. * catapsāre is proposed.
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La Bretagne Linguistique, 1987 In Saint-Yvi, six kilometres north of Fouesnant, we find a case similar to the one described by d’Arbois de Jubainville after a visit to Fouesnant in the last century: only the form of the determiner an was used, as in Middle-Breton, whereas ar and al ...
Gary German
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