Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan

Nonfiction, History, Medieval, Fiction & Literature, Literary Theory & Criticism, Literary
Cover of the book Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan by Jean d'Arras, Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox, Penn State University Press
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Author: Jean d'Arras, Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox ISBN: 9780271069005
Publisher: Penn State University Press Publication: September 1, 2012
Imprint: Penn State University Press Language: English
Author: Jean d'Arras, Donald Maddox, Sara Sturm-Maddox
ISBN: 9780271069005
Publisher: Penn State University Press
Publication: September 1, 2012
Imprint: Penn State University Press
Language: English

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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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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