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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823456603321

Autore

Jean d'Arras <active 14th century, >

Titolo

Melusine; or, The noble history of Lusignan / / Jean d'Arras ; translated, and with an introduction by Donald Maddox and Sara Sturm-Maddox

Pubbl/distr/stampa

University Park, Pennsylvania : , : Pennsylvania State University Press, , [2012]

©2012

ISBN

0-271-05924-9

0-271-05990-7

0-271-05991-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (261 p.)

Disciplina

841.1

Soggetti

Melusine (Legendary character)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

""COVER Front""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table of Contents""; ""Preface and Acknowledgments""; ""Introduction""; ""Notes to Introduction""; ""Maps""; ""MELUSINE;  OR,THE NOBLE HISTORY OF LUSIGNAN""; ""Notes to Melusine""; ""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""; ""Geoffroy Big-Tooth in Ireland""; ""Crisis in the Near East""; ""Betrayal, Fratricide, and Loss""

""Geoffroy 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""; ""COVER Back""

Sommario/riassunto

"An annotated English translation of the fourteenth-century French prose romance Melusine, by Jean d'Arras"--Provided by publisher.