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Duty Bound
What drives a man to dedicate his life to serving others, even in the face of immense challenges? Duty Bound: The Life and Legacy of Stephen Thomas Knight takes readers on a powerful journey through the inspiring life of a soldier, police officer, and congressman who never wavered in his commitment to community, country, and core values. From the battlefield to the streets of Los Angeles, and from city council meetings to the halls of Congress, Stephen Thomas Knight's story is one of perseverance, resilience, and a steadfast belief in the power of public service. This biography delves into the defining moments of his life-his early military service, his distinguished career in law enforcemen...
Warriors and Wilderness in Medieval Britain
Tracing the development of the King Arthur story in the late Middle Ages, this book explores Arthur's depiction as a wilderness figure, the descendant of the northern Romano-British hunter/warrior god. The earliest Arthur was a warrior but in the 11th century Welsh tale Culhwch and Olwen, he is less a warrior and more a leader of a band of rogue heroes. The story of Arthur was popularized by Geoffrey of Monmouth, in his Latin History of the Kings of Britain, and was translated into Middle English in Layamon's Brut and the later alliterative Alliterative Morte Arthure. Both owed much to the epic poem "Beowulf," which draws on the Anglo-Saxon fascination with the wilderness. The most famous Arthurian tale is Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, in which the wilderness and themes from Beowulf play a leading role. Three Arthurian tales set in Inglewood Forest place Arthur and Gawain in a wilderness setting, and link Arthur to medieval Robin Hood tales.
The Ecology of the English Outlaw in Medieval Literature
Arguing that outlaw narratives become particularly popular and poignant at moments of national ecological and political crisis, Sarah Harlan-Haughey examines the figure of the outlaw in Anglo-Saxon poetry and Old English exile lyrics such as Beowulf, works dealing with the life and actions of Hereward, the Anglo-Norman romance of Fulk Fitz Waryn, the Robin Hood ballads, and the Tale of Gamelyn. Although the outlaw's wilderness shelter changed dramatically from the menacing fens and forests of Anglo-Saxon England to the bright, known, and mapped greenwood of the late outlaw romances and ballads, Harlan-Haughey observes that the outlaw remained strongly animalistic, other, and liminal. His bru...
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A Hundred Years of Fiction
Explores and analyzes the Anglophone fiction of Wales in the 20th century. It looks at writers who deal with Welsh life and issues and asks how they relate to the determining forces of their period and contexts, from the economy and politics to concepts of Welsh identity and the colonial situation.
