As Lawman uses the messenger motif in his Brut both to facilitate and to interpret the role that knowledge and power play in British history, the poet also imagines his own role as history's authorized messenger. Messengers model and endorse Lawman's gestures at writing himself a place next to the people of British history and, perhaps more importantly, to the places in which that history occurred.
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Francis's knowledge of these authors and the printers who published their works is impressive. Advertising the Self is a well-edited and highly readable book that sheds new light on these three important authors from the early decades of the book trade in Renaissance France.
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