LEADER 04858oam 22007691 450 001 9910820196803321 005 20190912095643.0 010 $a0-7556-0000-2 010 $a0-7556-9497-X 010 $a0-85771-406-6 010 $a600-00-0899-6 010 $a1-4294-5368-0 024 7 $a10.5040/9780755694976 035 $a(CKB)1000000000467225 035 $a(EBL)676875 035 $a(OCoLC)710975770 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000187517 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12055371 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000187517 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10136906 035 $a(PQKB)10839853 035 $a(OCoLC)1124397330 035 $a(UtOrBLW)bpp09264355 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC676875 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000467225 100 $a20190919d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aKing Arthur's enchantresses $eMorgan and her sisters in Arthurian tradition /$fby Carolyne Larrington 205 $aFirst edition. 210 1$aLondon ;$aNew York :$cI.B. Tauris,$d2014. 215 $a1 online resource (272 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a1-78453-041-7 311 $a1-84511-113-3 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references. 327 $aContents; Introduction; 1. Magic and the Enchantress; 2. Morgan and Arthur; 3. Morgan and Chivalry; 4. Morgan, Other Knights and Enchantresses; 5. Viviane, the Damoiselle Cacheresse and the Lady of the Lake; 6. The Queen of Orkney; 7. Vivien and the Victorians; 8. Morgan, Morgause, and the Modern Age; Notes; Bibliography; List of Pictures and Sources; Index 330 $a"King Arthur: the very name summons visions of courtly chivalry and towering castles, of windswept battlefields and heroic quests, and above all of the charismatic monarch who dies but who one day shall return again. The Arthurian legend lives on as powerfully and enduringly as ever. Yet there is an aspect to this myth which has been neglected, but which is perhaps its most potent part of all. For central to the Arthurian stories are the mysterious, sexually alluring enchantresses, the spellcasters and mistresses of magic who wield extraordinary influence over Arthur's life and destiny, bestriding the Camelot mythology with a dark and brooding presence. Carolyne Larrington brings these dangerous women vibrantly to life. Here is Morgan-le-Fay, a complex sorceress of great cunning and skill, immortalised by Helen Mirren's Morgana in John Boorman's film "Excalibur". Here too are the mystical Lady of the Lake; the beguiling Viviane, Merlin's deadly nemesis; and Morgause, Queen of Orkney, mother to Mordred, Arthur's incestuously-conceived son and his bitterest foe. Echoing the search for the Grail by the knights of the Round Table, Larrington takes her readers on an intriguing quest of her own - to discover why Arthurian enchantresses continue to bewitch us. Her journey takes in the enchantresses as they appear in poetry and painting, in politics and the theatre, on the Internet and TV, in high culture and popular culture. Whether they be chaste or depraved, necrophiliacs or virgins, benevolent or filled with hatred, the enchantresses represent a strain of femininity which continually challenges male chivalric values from within. These women are survivors. They outlive the collapse of Camelot and all it stands for. And it is as archetypal manifestations of the feared, uncontainable Other that they continue to inspire admiration, fright and fascination in equal measure. King Arthur's Enchantresses makes a unique contribution to contemporary writing on the Arthurian myths. It will intrigue and delight anyone with an interest in mythology, religion, cultural history and medieval literature."--Bloomsbury Publishing. 606 $aArthurian romances$xHistory and criticism 606 $aLegends$zGreat Britain 606 $aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism 606 $aMagic in literature 606 $aMorgan le Fay (Legendary character)$vRomances$xHistory and criticism 606 $aWomen in literature 606 $aWomen$xMythology 606 $aHistory$2BIC 615 0$aArthurian romances$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aLegends 615 0$aLiterature, Medieval$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aMagic in literature. 615 0$aMorgan le Fay (Legendary character)$xHistory and criticism. 615 0$aWomen in literature. 615 0$aWomen$xMythology. 615 7$aHistory. 676 $a398.352 676 $a820.9351 676 $a398.352 700 $aLarrington$b Carolyne$0222983 801 0$bUtOrBLW 801 1$bUtOrBLW 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910820196803321 996 $aKing Arthur's enchantresses$93943398 997 $aUNINA