Après avoir présenté l’Historia Regum Britanniae de Geoffrey de Monmouth dans le dernier épisode, Lays et Antoine se tournent cette semaine vers deux de ses plus célèbres traductions: le Roman de Brut de Wace, en anglo-normand, et le Brut de Laȝamon, en moyen anglais. Mettant en vers le récit de l’Historia, les deux poèmes se distinguent aussi par leurs particularités: Wace introduit la Table Ronde dans la Matière de Bretagne, tandis que Laȝamon est le premier écrivain d’expression anglaise à relater les aventures d’Arthur…
Crash Course recently launched a series about mythology. Here, we take a little critical look at the books they relied (maybe too heavily) on, especially in regard to two african creation myths, from the Kono people of Guinea and the Bushongo people of Congo. What went wrong exactly? [Timestamps and link to the script below]
00:00 Introduction 00:45 Part One : What Crash Course Copied In Leeming's Book 11:00 Part Two : The Kono Myth of Alatangana and Death 19:00 Part Three : The Bushongo Tale of Mbumba's Creation 28:21 Part Four : A Reasonable Doubt about the Initial Doubt 34:08 Conclusion : The Problem With Bite-Sized Mythology 41:31 Credits share subscribe etc.
Of course, the video was written and edited when only a handful of episodes were out, so you can see me guess at what it will entail. I even supposed that it was entirely possible that the omissions were made on purpose, to come back to it later and say to the audience : « gotcha, here is the context of this myth ».
I have to say that I could make another video about their video on the Holy Grail ? I think they completely missed the mark about what happens in Le Conte du Graal by Chrétien de Troyes, as I’ve said in this comment.
I think this is because they relied on Thury&Devinney but I have not been able yet to check the fourth edition where the arthurian chapter was added.
BIBLIOGRAPHY : (only the most cited works, for the rest, check the script)