Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan
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Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan

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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.

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Publisher
Penn State University Press
Year
2015
ISBN
9780271059907
Topic
Literature
Subtopic
European Literary Collections
Index
Literature

Table of contents

  1. COVER Front
  2. Copyright Page
  3. Table of Contents
  4. Preface and Acknowledgments
  5. Introduction
  6. Notes to Introduction
  7. Maps
  8. MELUSINE; OR,THE NOBLE HISTORY OF LUSIGNAN
  9. Notes to Melusine
  10. Prologue
  11. Crossed Destinies: Melusine and Raymondin
  12. Founding Lusignan
  13. Raymondin in Brittany
  14. Founding a Dynasty in Poitou
  15. Urian and Guyon Defend Cyprus
  16. Urian and Guyon: The Armenian Campaign
  17. Antoine and Renaud in Luxembourg
  18. Geoffroy Big-Tooth in Ireland
  19. Crisis in the Near East
  20. Betrayal, Fratricide, and Loss
  21. Geoffroy in Northumberland
  22. Raymond: Pilgrimage and Penance
  23. Six Sons of Lusignan Defend Alsace
  24. Raymond's Noble Funeral
  25. Epilogue I: The Knight of the Tower
  26. Epilogue II: The Castle of the Sparrow Hawk
  27. The Legacy of Lusignan and the Duke of Berry
  28. Notes
  29. Selected Bibliography
  30. Index
  31. COVER Back