Bevis of Hampton, local hero: November 2011

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Welcome to Bevis of Hampton, Local Hero, the site dedicated to one of the most interesting, exciting, and longest, of the 14th century English Romances.

Bevis is known by many different spellings of his name, and in many different languages. So in a sense he may be 'local' to many people far beyond Southampton, Hampshire, and the Isle of Wight. Here in the place to which he is always said to belong his significance is evident in place names such as Bevois Valley, but he is rarely celebrated in any significant way. It is hoped that this blog will redress that.

On Sunday 24th July the film adaption of the Bevis story by Gela Jenssen was screened at the Digital Cinema, Solent University, Southampton UK.

Entitled 'To Unwill a Heart' this film version was shown at the Cannes Film Festival in 2010. It was accompanied by live performance of medieval music.

Bevis bibliography: primary sources/ manuscripts

Cambridge University Library, MS Ff.2.38 (late 15th-early 16thC)
Cambridge, Gonville and Caius College, MS 175 (1350-1375)
Cambridge, Trinity College, MS 0.2.13 (mid-late 15thC)
Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland, MS Advocates 19.2.1 (the Auchinleck MS), http://www.nls.uk/auchinleck
http://www.nls.uk/auchinleck
London, British Library, MS Egerton 2862 (Sutherland MS (late 14th-early 15th century)
Manchester, Chetham's Library, MS 8009 (1490s)
Naples, Biblioteca Nazionale, MS XIII.B.29 (mid-15thC)
Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Eng.poet. d.208 (mid 15thC)

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Saturday 5 November 2011

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