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Jean d'Arras's splendid prose romance of Melusine, written for Jean de Berry, the brother of King Charles V of France, is one of the most significant and complex literary works of the later Middle Ages. The author, promising to tell us "how the noble and powerful fortress of Lusignan in Poitou was founded by a fairy," writes a ceaselessly astonishing account of the origins of the powerful feudal dynasty of the Lusignans in southwestern France, which flourished in western Europe and the Near East during the age of the Crusades. The spellbinding story of the destinies of the fairy Melusine, her mortal husband, and her extraordinary sons blends history, myth, genealogy, folklore, and popular traditions with epic, romance, and Crusade narrative.
Preceded by a substantial introduction, this translation, the first in English to be amply annotated, captures the remarkable range of stylistic registers that characterizes this extravagant and captivating work.
Contents
Contents
Preface and Acknowledgments
Introduction
Melusine; or, The Noble History of Lusignan
Prologue
Crossed Destinies: Melusine and Raymondin
Founding Lusignan
Raymondin in Brittany
Founding a Dynasty in Poitou
Urian and Guyon Defend Cyprus
Urian and Guyon: The Armenian Campaign
Antoine and Renaud in Luxembourg
Geoffrey Big-Tooth in Ireland
Crisis in the Near East
Betrayal, Fratricide, and Loss
Geoffrey in Northumberland
Raymond: Pilgrimage and Penance
Six Sons of Lusignan Defend Alsace
Raymond's Noble Funeral
Epilogue I: The Knight of the Tower
Epilogue II: The Castle of the Sparrow Hawk
The Legacy of Lusignan and the Duke of Berry
Notes
Selected Bibliography
Index
