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The original Welsh stories of these beloved characters and their world for the first time in English The stories in Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts deal with well-known figures from medieval Britain who will be familiar to many readers--though not from the versions presented here. These freshly translated tales emerge from the remarkable and enormous sixteenth-century Chronicle of the Six Ages of the World by the Welshman Elis Gruffydd. Tales of Merlin, Arthur, and the Magic Arts revives the original legends of these Welsh heroes alongside stories of the continued survival of the magical arts, from antiquity to the Renaissance, and the broader cultural world of the Welsh. These stories provide a vivid and faithful rendering of Merlin, Arthur, and the many original folktales left out of the widespread accounts of their exploits.
Tales --- Tales, Medieval --- History and criticism. --- Arthurian legnds. --- Astrologers. --- Celtic studies. --- Magicians. --- Necromancers. --- Prophets. --- Renaissance. --- Sorcerers. --- Wales. --- Welsh heroes. --- antiquity. --- folktales. --- medieval Europe. --- mythology. --- survival of magical arts. --- translated stories. --- world literature.
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A collaborative investigation of one of the best-known works of late medieval European literature, the Franco-Burgundian collection of short stories known as the 'Cent Nouvelles nouvelles'. Modelled loosely on Boccaccio's 'Decameron' and incorporating elements from Old French "fabliaux" as well as Poggio Bracciolini's 'Liber Facetiarum', the anonymous collection attributes its morally challenging and frequently humorous tales to named narrators including Philip the Good, Duke of Burgundy and Louis of Luxembourg, Count of Saint Pol. The contribution of this new volume of essays is threefold: - empirical, in that it brings entirely new interdisciplinary insights into the study of the genesis and reception of the work; - methodological, in that it integrates study of the text within a 360-degree evaluation of the work's manuscript and early printed context; and - conceptual, in that it seeks to understand the social dimensions of textual production and consumption. These approaches unite ten principal contributions by specialists in the fields of art history, book history, court history and linguistics from France, the Netherlands, the USA and the UK.
Old French literature --- Manuscripts. Epigraphy. Paleography --- History of civilization --- History of France --- History of the Low Countries --- anno 1400-1499 --- anno 1500-1599 --- French fiction --- French fiction. --- Manuscripts, French --- Manuscripts, French. --- Manuscripts, Medieval --- Manuscripts, Medieval. --- Roman français --- Tales, Medieval. --- Cent nouvelles nouvelles. --- To 1500.
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