{"product_id":"two-shorter-accounts-of-the-d-m-smith-9781091512306","title":"Two Shorter Accounts of the Trojan War: The Seege of Troye \u0026 The Rawlinson Prose Siege of Troy: A Modern Translation","description":"\u003ci\u003eIn medieval Britain, the works of Homer were practically unknown. In his absence, the half-remembered story of the Trojan War took on a distinctly Arthurian flavour, with the heroes Achilles and Hector reimagined as armoured knights on horseback, duelling with broadsword and lance.\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eThe earliest known account of the Trojan War in the English language is the \u003ci\u003eSeege of Troye\u003c\/i\u003e: an anonymous minstrel poem of the early fourteenth century, loosely based on the \u003ci\u003eExcidio Trojae Historia\u003c\/i\u003e of Dares Phrygius and the \u003ci\u003eRoman de Troie\u003c\/i\u003e of Beno? de Sainte-Maure. Fresh from his 2018 translation of John Lydgate's 30,000-line epic \u003ci\u003eTroy Book\u003c\/i\u003e, D. M. Smith now turns his attention to this lighter and more vernacular work, presenting its first translation into Modern English. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eSmith provides the full MS. Lincoln's Inn 150-most complete of the four surviving manuscripts of the \u003ci\u003eSeege of Troye\u003c\/i\u003e-with supplementary material from the extensively-rewritten MS. Harley 525. Also included is a modern translation of the \u003ci\u003eRawlinson Prose Siege of Troy\u003c\/i\u003e-a fifteenth-century redaction of Lydgate's \u003ci\u003eTroy Book\u003c\/i\u003e, and the oldest English prose account of the Trojan War-here published for the first time alongside its metrical namesake. Both texts are heavily annotated, with a detailed introduction placing them within the wider \"Troy\" canon of the Middle Ages and classical antiquity.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e D. M. Smith\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 1091512302\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781091512306\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Independently Published\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/07\/2019\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 188\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.57lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.40d","brand":"D. M. Smith","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44616472166655,"sku":"9781091512306","price":17.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_58d9d939-19a0-4893-9e66-44894cabe43e.jpg?v=1703020525","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/two-shorter-accounts-of-the-d-m-smith-9781091512306","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}