Description
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.
About the Author
Donald Maddox is a professor of French and Italian at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. He has written and edited a number of books on medieval literature including, in collaboration with Sarah Sturm-Maddox, Froissart across the Genres, Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture, and a translation, the first in modern English, of the Roman de Melusine.
Sara Sturm-Maddox is a professor of French and Italian at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has collaborated with Donald Maddox on such medieval studies titles as Froissart across the Genres, Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture, and a translation, the first in modern English, of the Roman de Melusine.
Book Information
ISBN 9780820357102
Author Donald Maddox
Format Paperback
Page Count 312
Imprint University of Georgia Press
Publisher University of Georgia Press
