BETWEEN ROMANCE AND HISTORY: GALFRIDIAN HISTORIOGRAPHY IN JEAN D'ARRAS'S MÉLUSINE

• Published in: Medium aevum Vol. 91; no. 2; pp. 254 - 275
• Main Author: Flood, Victoria
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Oxford Society for the Study of Mediaeval Languages and Literature 01.07.2022
• Subjects: 15th century; Correspondence; Fiction; French language; Historiography; History; Literary translation; Prophecies; Prose; Traditions; Translations; United Kingdom > UK; England; France

Jean d'Arrass late fourteenth-century French prose romance Melusine survives in the major vernaculars of Western Europe, including a close English translation produced c.1500.1 Jeans text incorporates prophecies ascribed to the fairy heroine, her mother, and her sisters concerning the fate of t...