Editorial: Manchester University Press
Colección: Manchester Medieval Literature and Culture
Número de páginas: 304 págs. 21.6 x 13.8 cm
Fecha de edición: 28-05-2024
EAN: 9781526164148
ISBN: 978-1-5261-6414-8
Precio (sin IVA): 113,66 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 118,21 €
This book explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance. It traces the uses of the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality in the histories of Gerald of Wales and Walter Map, the continental mirabilia of Gervase of Tilbury, and the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century French Mélusine romances and their early English reception.