Dares Compiled
Frederic Clark
Chapter 2 surveys the transmission and reception of <italic>Destruction Troy</italic> in Middle Ages, from earliest attestations text Carolingian Francia to height its popularity twelfth-century England. Specifically, it examines how medieval scribes compilers packaged multi-text manuscripts, which survive today great numbers. Many these codices continued Dares with accounts Trojan origins Franks, Britons, other peoples. In this fashion morphed an ancient history into a genealogy—it functioned as means linking present past through claims ancestry. The latter portions chapter explore Dares’ many connections Geoffrey Monmouth’s <italic>History Kings Britain</italic>, pseudo-history that famously claimed Britain had been founded by Brutus.
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