Lazamon’s Brut and the Anglo-Norman Vision of History

This historiography of the 12-century historical poem Lazamon's Brut, the first account of King Arthur in English, suggests that, as an alternative to Norman accounts of English history, this poem uses the history of the ancient Britons to inspire the post-Conquest Anglo-Saxons to resist the suppression and marginalization of their language and take an active role in writing English history.