Figure of Merlin in Thirteenth-Century French Romance
Author: | MacDonald, Aileen |
Year: | 1990 |
Pages: | 260 |
ISBN: | 0-88946-317-4 978-0-88946-317-2 |
Price: | $199.95 |
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A consideration of Merlin's Christlike-Antichristlike duality and of a the progression of Merlin's role in three cycles - that of Robert de Boron, the Vulgate, and the Post Vulgate - which substantiates that the three are related, each growing out of its predecessor.
Reviews
". . . this book offers interesting insights into an original figure of medieval fiction and into little-known texts which fully deserve this kind of attention, and it opens up tantalizing perspectives on the principles and ways of writing of thirteenth-century French romance." -- Speculum