The Melusine Romance in Medieval Europe - Translation, Circulation, and Material Contexts

The legend of Mélusine examined in a pan-European context.

List of contents

Introduction: Mutations of Mélusine
Chapter 1: The French Mélusine and Roman de Parthenay
Textual Witnesses: Audience, Variance, Selected Corpus
Mélusine: God's Marvellous Monster
Careful Plotting: Revealing Mélusine's Curse and Fairy Nature
From Half-Serpent to Serpent: Hybridity and Transformation
Inheriting Monstrosity: Mélusine's Sons
Chapter 2: The German Melusine
From Manuscript to Print: Audiences, Images, and Textual Stability
Melusine the Ideal Christian Fairy
Serpent or Half-Serpent?
Melusine the Monstrous Mother
Chapter 3: The Castilian Melosina
The 1489 Edition by Parix and Cleblat
The 1526 Edition by the Crombergers
Key Transformations in Style and Paratext
Melosina: More Fairy than Human?
A Catholic Wedding
Duality Versus Animality
Depicting/Recycling the Monstrous Body: Melosina's Sons
Chapter 4: The Dutch Meluzine
The 1491 Edition by Gheraert Leeu
The 1510 Edition by Henrick Eckert van Homberch
The 1602 Edition by Hieronymus I Verdussen
A Hybrid Translation: How, Why, and Which Source?
More Human than Fairy
Becoming the Animal
Increased Focus on Hybridity
Chapter 5: The English Melusine and Partenay
The Prose Melusine
The Printed Melusine Fragments
The Verse Partenay
Why Translations of Both Versions?
Translation Strategies: Content versus Form
'ryght as the frenshe wil yiff me evidence': Invisibility and Close Translation
Melusine and Her Part-Monstrous Sons
Conclusion: Mélusine's European Dimensions
Appendix: Manuscripts and Printed Editions of the Various Mélusine Versions (up to c. 1600)

About the author

LYDIA ZELDENRUST is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York.

Summary

The legend of Mélusine examined in a pan-European context.

Product details

• Authors: Lydia Zeldenrust, Lydia (Royalty Account) Zeldenrust
• Publisher: Boydell & Brewer Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2020
• EAN: 9781843845218
• ISBN: 978-1-84384-521-8
• No. of pages: 285
• Dimensions: 240 mm x 162 mm x 24 mm
• Weight: 716 g
• Illustrations: 28 b/w illus.
• Series: Studies in Medieval Romance; Studies in Medieval Romance
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Englisch, Europa, 1000 bis 1500 nach Christus