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 + shipping | |
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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.
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". . . 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