Melusine

Author : Jean d'Arras
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 261 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-06-26
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780271059907

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Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan by Jean d'Arras Pdf

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.

Author : Sarah Monette
Publisher : Penguin
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0441014178

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Melusine by Sarah Monette Pdf

Felix Harrowgate, a handsome, well-respected wizard among his aristocratic peers, finds his dark past as an abused slave coming back to haunt him and joins forces with Mildmay the Fox, a thief and assassin, to stop the demons of darkness. Reprint.

Author : Gillian M. E. Alban
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 334 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : History
ISBN : 0739104713

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Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and in Mythology by Gillian M. E. Alban Pdf

Gillian Alban meticulously pursues the Fairy Melusine snake-woman image through the plot and the poetry of A. S. Byatt's novel Possession, into medieval legend, and beyond into her antecedents in ancient myth. The book describes the erotically inspiring force of Melusine's love story and draws parallels with goddesses such as Lamia, Ishtar or Inanna, Isis, and Asherah. Mother, creator, and leader, the figure of Melusine was ultimately vilified and tellingly converted into the demon of patriarchal accounts, as seen in the examples of Lilith, Medusa, Scylla, and the serpent in the Garden. Alban deconstructs part of Genesis, including the roles of Adam and Eve and Cain's crime, and illuminates the Old Testament worship of the goddess Asherah alongside the male Yahweh. A forceful exploration of literature, history, and myth, this study sweeps away limiting assumptions about the female sex. Melusine the Serpent Goddess restores the dignity acknowledged to women of old, making a forceful statement about the power and creativity of women.

Author : Donald Maddox,Sara Sturm-Maddox
Publisher : University of Georgia Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 082031823X

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Melusine of Lusignan by Donald Maddox,Sara Sturm-Maddox Pdf

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.

Author : André Lebey
Publisher : Skylight Press
Page : 154 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781908011329

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The Romance of the Faery Melusine by André Lebey Pdf

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.

Author : Jean (d'Arras)
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 430 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : ONB:+Z312078605

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Melusine by Jean (d'Arras) Pdf

Author : Alexander Karley Donald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 436 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Electronic
ISBN : UVA:X030556920

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Melusine by Alexander Karley Donald Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 451 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-11-13
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004355958

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Melusine's Footprint by Anonim Pdf

Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth offers nineteen new critical essays from an international and interdisciplinary group of scholars examining the cultural, literary, and mythical inheritance of the legendary half-fairy, half-serpent Melusine.

Author : Lydia Zeldenrust
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781843845218

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The Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe by Lydia Zeldenrust Pdf

Readers have long been fascinated by the enigmatic figure of M lusine - a beautiful fairy woman cursed to transform into a half-serpent once a week, whose part-monstrous sons are the ancestor of several European noble houses. This study is the first to consider how this romance developed from a local legend to European bestseller, analysing versions in French, German, Castilian, Dutch, and English. It addresses questions on how to study medieval literature from a European perspective, moving beyond national canons, and reading M lusine's bodily mutability as a metaphor for how the romance itself moves and transforms across borders. It also analyses key changes to the romance's content, form, and material presentation - including its images - and traces how the people who produced and consumed this romance shaped its international transmission and spread. The author shows how M lusine's character is adapted within each local context, while also uncovering previously unknown connections between the different branches of this multilingual tradition. Moving beyond established paradigms of separate national traditions, manuscript versus print, and medieval versus Renaissance literature, the book integrates literary analysis with art historical and book historical approaches. LYDIA ZELDENRUST is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

Author : Antonio Porta
Publisher : Guernica Editions
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Melusine (Legendary character)
ISBN : 0920717586

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Melusine by Antonio Porta Pdf

Written towards the end of an ever evolving career in poetic form and political intent, Melusine possesses the urgency of a summary statement concerning life and art Melusine underscores Porta's rational optimism which advises us to seek always those unimaginable utopias of historical difference lying just beyond the perimeters of readily available romances of the cultural commonplace.

Author : Gareth Knight
Publisher : Skylight Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781908011671

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The Book of Melusine of Lusignan in History, Legend and Romance by Gareth Knight Pdf

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.

Author : Alexander Karley Donald
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 442 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Melusine (Legendary character)
ISBN : HARVARD:32044008080558

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Melusine: Text, notes, and glossary by Alexander Karley Donald Pdf

Author : Lynne Reid Banks
Publisher : Turtleback Books
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 0613083407

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Melusine by Lynne Reid Banks Pdf

From the moment Roger and his family arrive at the French chateau for a holiday, everything seems strange. The place is unkempt, the owner is ill-tempered, and his daughter seems deeply troubled. Roger feels he must help her, and that means getting to the bottom of the dark mystery of the chateau. Previously out of print.

Author : Robert Joseph Nolan
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 386 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1970
Category : Folklore
ISBN : IND:39000005650622

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An Introduction to the English Version of Mélusine, a Medieval Prose Romance by Robert Joseph Nolan Pdf

Author : Gilson
Publisher : 9th Cinebook
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Comics & Graphic Novels
ISBN : 1905460201

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Hocus Pocus by Gilson Pdf

Melusine, a sorcerer's apprentice, is learning how to become a witch, but her potions and spells don't work as she intends them to, leading to many humorous episodes with ghosts, monsters, and other supernatural characters.