Melusine Of Lusignan
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Melusine Of Lusignan
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Author : Donald Maddox
language : en
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
Release Date : 1996
Melusine Of Lusignan written by Donald Maddox and has been published by University of Georgia Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996 with Literary Criticism categories.
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.
Melusine Or The Noble History Of Lusignan
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Author : Jean d'Arras
language : en
Publisher: Penn State Press
Release Date : 2015-06-26
Melusine Or The Noble History Of Lusignan written by Jean d'Arras and has been published by Penn State Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-06-26 with Literary Collections categories.
Jean d’Arras’s splendid prose romance of Melusine, written for Jean de Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, is one of the most significant and complex literary works of the later Middle Ages. The author, promising to tell us “how the noble and powerful fortress of Lusignan in Poitou was founded by a fairy,” writes a ceaselessly astonishing account of the origins of the powerful feudal dynasty of the Lusignans in southwestern France, which flourished in western Europe and the Near East during the age of the Crusades. The spellbinding story of the destinies of the fairy Melusine, her mortal husband, and her extraordinary sons blends history, myth, genealogy, folklore, and popular traditions with epic, romance, and Crusade narrative. Preceded by a substantial introduction, this translation, the first in English to be amply annotated, captures the remarkable range of stylistic registers that characterizes this extravagant and captivating work.
The Book Of Melusine Of Lusignan In History Legend And Romance
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Author : Gareth Knight
language : en
Publisher: Skylight Press
Release Date : 2013
The Book Of Melusine Of Lusignan In History Legend And Romance written by Gareth Knight and has been published by Skylight Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013 with Literary Criticism categories.
Considerable interest in faery tradition has grown up in recent years and not least in the story of Melusine of Lusignan, the subject of a prose romance by Jean d'Arras at the end of the 14th century, swiftly followed by one in verse by Couldrette. This book provides a collection of material from various sources to give an all round picture of the remarkable faery, her town, her church, her immediate family, and the great Lusignan dynasty she founded. An established authority on Melusine, Gareth Knight collects together all the best source material, which he translates from the French, and presents his own researches into the Lusignan family of the 12th century, whose dynasty included kings of Cyprus and Jerusalem, examining the possibility of a familiar spirit guiding the family in its destiny.
A Bilingual Edition Of Jean D Arras S Melusine Or L Histoire De Lusignan
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Author : Jean
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2007
A Bilingual Edition Of Jean D Arras S Melusine Or L Histoire De Lusignan written by Jean and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Melusine (Legendary character) categories.
Melusine Of Lusignan And The Cult Of The Faery Woman
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Author : Gareth Knight
language : en
Publisher: R J Stewart Books
Release Date : 2010-10
Melusine Of Lusignan And The Cult Of The Faery Woman written by Gareth Knight and has been published by R J Stewart Books this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2010-10 with Fantasy fiction, French categories.
Knight explores and reveals the hidden mystery of the Faery Melusine, a major figure in medieval French lore and legend. Through vivid interpretation of original source texts, he shows that the Melusine story is a powerful initiatory legend emerging from the deeply transformative faery tradition of ancient Europe.
Melusine Or The Noble History Of Lusignan
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Author : Jean (d'Arras)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2012
Melusine Or The Noble History Of Lusignan written by Jean (d'Arras) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012 with Melusine (Legendary character) categories.
"An annotated English translation of the fourteenth-century French prose romance Melusine, by Jean d'Arras"--Provided by publisher.
Melusine
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Author : d'arras Jean (Author of Melusine.)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1895
Melusine written by d'arras Jean (Author of Melusine.) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1895 with Melusine (Legendary character) categories.
The Romans Of Partenay Or Of Lusignen
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Author : Skeat
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
The Romans Of Partenay Or Of Lusignen written by Skeat and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with categories.
The Romans Of Partenay Or Of Lusignen
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Author : Couldrette
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1866
The Romans Of Partenay Or Of Lusignen written by Couldrette and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1866 with Melusine (Legendary character) categories.
The Romance Of The Faery Melusine
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Author : André Lebey
language : en
Publisher: Skylight Press
Release Date : 2011
The Romance Of The Faery Melusine written by André Lebey and has been published by Skylight Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011 with Fiction categories.
Springing from the heart of medieval France, The Romance of the Faery Melusine tells the story of Raymondin of Poitiers who accidentally kills his uncle while out hunting, and fleeing deep into the forest, encounters a faery by a fountain. Falling deeply into a mutual soul-love, the faery Melusine agrees to help Raymondin and to become his wife, on condition that he makes no attempt to see her between dusk and dawn each Saturday. On this basis the house of Lusignan thrives and prospers, until a series of treacherous events tempt Raymondin to violate his promise and shatter the magic which holds his faery wife to the human world. First rendered into written form in a text by Jean d'Arras in 1393, the legend of the Faery Melusine is well established in France, where she is credited with having founded the family, town and castle of Lusignan. However, it is very little known in the English-speaking world, despite the fact that Melusine originally hailed from Scotland. This new retelling by Gareth Knight translated from Andre Lebey's 1920s novel Le Roman de la Melusine captures the freshness of Lebey's telling of the legend and brings the benefit of Knight's expertise both in French literature and in the esoteric faery tradition.