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Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid

Coates, Richard

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Abstract

A submitted article in an onomastics journal, accepted without major revision, whose main thesis is that the place-name Maiden Castle, recurrent in Scotland and England, has its immediate origin in the work of Geoffrey of Monmouth. He transposed it from a context of crusaders' knowledge of a prominent ruin in the Levant to the fortress of Edinburgh, from where the name, used as a topos, eventually spread throughout Britain. Some other theses are addressed briefly, such as that the topos is in part responsible for the direction of the development of the roman courtois tradition.

Citation

Coates, R. (2006). Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth and Harun al-Rasid. Nomina, 29, 5-60

Journal Article Type Article
Publication Date Oct 1, 2006
Journal Nomina
Print ISSN 0141-6340
Publisher Society for Name Studies in Britain and Ireland
Peer Reviewed Peer Reviewed
Volume 29
Pages 5-60
Keywords Maiden Castle, Geoffrey of Monmouth, Harun al-Rasid
Public URL https://uwe-repository.worktribe.com/output/1036114
Publisher URL http://www.snsbi.org.uk/Nomina.html