Melusine`s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth, 

Автор: Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox
Название: Melusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France
ISBN: 0820357103 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780820357102
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This volume of original essays is the first collection devoted to the monumental Roman de Melusine (1393) by Jean d'Arras. A masterwork of late fourteenth-century French prose fiction, Melusine tells of the powerful medieval dynasty of Lusignan from its founding as a city by the legendary Melusine, an enigmatic fairy-figure subject to periodic monstrous transformations, through its expansion in Europe and the Near East, to its ultimate evanescence. Melusine offers a singular blend of history and fiction as it upholds the proprietary claims to Lusignan of the work's illustrious patron, Jean, Duc de Berry. The great deeds of Melusine, her forebears, and her progeny unfold in a narrative that blends elements of myth, folklore, and popular traditions with epic, Crusade narrative, romance, and theological doctrine. Advancing a wealth of new material and fresh insight, the essays in this volume address the complex interplay of the conventions of medieval fictional, historical, and genealogical writing from a wide variety of critical perspectives. Together, they offer a new, more balanced and comprehensive understanding of one of the most significant literary works of late medieval European culture.

Автор: Zeldenrust, Lydia
Название: Melusine romance in medieval europe
ISBN: 1843845210 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781843845218
Издательство: Boydell & Brewer
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Описание: The legend of Melusine examined in a pan-European context.