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  • 13 - Identity, Gender and History in Wace’s Roman de Rou and Roman de Brut

  • from Part II - Historians, Lawyers and Exegetes: Writing Lives and Identities
  • Edited by Julie Barrau, University of Cambridge, David Bates, University of East Anglia
  • Book:
    Lives, Identities and Histories in the Central Middle Ages
    Published online:
    24 September 2021
    Print publication:
    07 October 2021, pp 246-263

  • Summary

    This chapter uses a gendered lens to examine how individuals' identity changed over the course of their life-cycle in two of Wace's poems: the Roman de Brut – his retelling of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Brittonum – and the Roman de Rou - his verse history of the Normans. Following Patricia Skinner's challenge to consider the potential for rupture and repetition in the life-cycle, the chapter examines the following themes evident in both poems: the uncertainty surrounding succession, the conduct of rulers, the effects of old age, the order of marriage and children and the importance of otherwise anonymous groups (peasants, old women) at moments of crisis.