{"product_id":"melusine-of-lusignan-donald-maddox-9780820318233","title":"Melusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Late Medieval France","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis volume of original essays is the first collection devoted to the monumental \u003cem\u003eRoman de Melusine\u003c\/em\u003e (1393) by Jean d'Arras. A masterwork of late fourteenth-century French prose fiction, Melusine tells of the powerful medieval dynasty of Lusignan from its founding as a city by the legendary Melusine, an enigmatic fairy-figure subject to periodic monstrous transformations, through its expansion in Europe and the Near East, to its ultimate evanescence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMelusine offers a singular blend of history and fiction as it upholds the proprietary claims to Lusignan of the work's illustrious patron, Jean, Duc de Berry. The great deeds of Melusine, her forebears, and her progeny unfold in a narrative that blends elements of myth, folklore, and popular traditions with epic, Crusade narrative, romance, and theological doctrine.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAdvancing a wealth of new material and fresh insight, the essays in this volume address the complex interplay of the conventions of medieval fictional, historical, and genealogical writing from a wide variety of critical perspectives. Together, they offer a new, more balanced and comprehensive understanding of one of the most significant literary works of late medieval European culture.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Donald Maddox\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 082031823X\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780820318233\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e University of Georgia Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 12\/01\/1996\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 312\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 1.44lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.31h x 5.86w x 1.02d","brand":"Donald Maddox","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":44128566935807,"sku":"9780820318233","price":50.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_05423492-6ad6-45ae-b6bd-91a64cdba2dd.jpg?v=1687459319","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/melusine-of-lusignan-donald-maddox-9780820318233","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}