Melusine of Lusignan
Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France
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 forebe…
Mehr
CHF 64.00
Preise inkl. MwSt. und Versandkosten (Portofrei ab CHF 40.00)
V104:
Folgt in ca. 10 Arbeitstagen
Produktdetails
Weitere Autoren: Sturm-Maddox, Sara (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-8203-1823-3
- EAN: 9780820318233
- Produktnummer: 1545800
- Verlag: University of Georgia Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1996
- Seitenangabe: 312 S.
- Masse: H22.2 cm x B14.5 cm x D2.1 cm 552 g
- Abbildungen: HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
- Gewicht: 552
5 weitere Werke von Donald (Hrsg.) Maddox:
Bewertungen
Anmelden