Background
Roberts, Brynley Francis was born on February 3, 1931 in Aberdare, Wales. Son of Robert Francis and Laura Jane (Williams) Roberts.
(The story of an ambitious Norman-Welsh priest who wrote, ...)
The story of an ambitious Norman-Welsh priest who wrote, often angrily and always vividly, about his troubles and about the people and places he knew. His books provide the most detailed evidence and the shrewdest insights we have into twelfth century Wales, its social customs, its agriculture, its leading figures and its religious life.
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(Vernacular prose, both as medium for record and instructi...)
Vernacular prose, both as medium for record and instruction and as means of entertainment, appears in a written form at an early period of Welsh literary history. It was an amalgam of native features with sources and analogues in traditional Celtic literature, and of borrowings and influences from the broader stream of European culture - Old French epics and chanson de geste texts, as well as Latin literature. This collection of essays look at ways in which the so-called native tales, now called "mabinogion", have become literary stories.
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Roberts, Brynley Francis was born on February 3, 1931 in Aberdare, Wales. Son of Robert Francis and Laura Jane (Williams) Roberts.
Bachelor with honours, U. Wales, Aberystwyth, 1951; Master of Arts, U. Wales, Aberystwyth, 1954; Doctor of Philosophy, U. Wales, Aberystwyth, 1969.
Lecturer, senior lecturer, reader, U. College Wales, 1957-1978; professor, department head, U. College Swansea (Wales), 1978-1985; librarian, National Library Wales, Aberystwyth, 1985-1994 (retired).
(Vernacular prose, both as medium for record and instructi...)
(The story of an ambitious Norman-Welsh priest who wrote, ...)
Fellow Society Antiquaries, Library. Association (honorary). M C.
Married Rhiannon Campbell;children: Rolant Lloyd, Owen Maredudd.