Melusine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melusine write by Sarah Monette. This book was released on 2006. Melusine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Felix Harrowgate, a handsome, well-respected wizard among his aristocratic peers, finds his dark past as an abused slave coming back to haunt him and joins forces with Mildmay the Fox, a thief and assassin, to stop the demons of darkness. Reprint.
Melusine
Melusine - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melusine write by Jean d'Arras. This book was released on 2012. Melusine available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "An annotated English translation of the fourteenth-century French prose romance Melusine, by Jean d'Arras"--Provided by publisher.
Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and in Mythology
Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and in Mythology - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and in Mythology write by Gillian M. E. Alban. This book was released on 2003. Melusine the Serpent Goddess in A. S. Byatt's Possession and in Mythology available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Gillian Alban meticulously pursues the Fairy Melusine snake-woman image through the plot and the poetry of A. S. Byatt's novel Possession, into medieval legend, and beyond into her antecedents in ancient myth. The book describes the erotically inspiring force of Melusine's love story and draws parallels with goddesses such as Lamia, Ishtar or Inanna, Isis, and Asherah. Mother, creator, and leader, the figure of Melusine was ultimately vilified and tellingly converted into the demon of patriarchal accounts, as seen in the examples of Lilith, Medusa, Scylla, and the serpent in the Garden. Alban deconstructs part of Genesis, including the roles of Adam and Eve and Cain's crime, and illuminates the Old Testament worship of the goddess Asherah alongside the male Yahweh. A forceful exploration of literature, history, and myth, this study sweeps away limiting assumptions about the female sex. Melusine the Serpent Goddess restores the dignity acknowledged to women of old, making a forceful statement about the power and creativity of women.
The Book of Melusine of Lusignan in History, Legend and Romance
The Book of Melusine of Lusignan in History, Legend and Romance - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Book of Melusine of Lusignan in History, Legend and Romance write by Gareth Knight. This book was released on 2013. The Book of Melusine of Lusignan in History, Legend and Romance available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Considerable interest in faery tradition has grown up in recent years and not least in the story of Melusine of Lusignan, the subject of a prose romance by Jean d'Arras at the end of the 14th century, swiftly followed by one in verse by Couldrette. This book provides a collection of material from various sources to give an all round picture of the remarkable faery, her town, her church, her immediate family, and the great Lusignan dynasty she founded. An established authority on Melusine, Gareth Knight collects together all the best source material, which he translates from the French, and presents his own researches into the Lusignan family of the 12th century, whose dynasty included kings of Cyprus and Jerusalem, examining the possibility of a familiar spirit guiding the family in its destiny.
Melusine's Footprint
Melusine's Footprint - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Melusine's Footprint write by . This book was released on 2017-11-13. Melusine's Footprint available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In Melusine’s Footprint: Tracing the Legacy of a Medieval Myth, editors Misty Urban, Deva Kemmis, and Melissa Ridley Elmes offer an invigorating international and interdisciplinary examination of the legendary fairy Melusine. Along with fresh insights into the popular French and German traditions, these essays investigate Melusine’s English, Dutch, Spanish, and Chinese counterparts and explore her roots in philosophy, folklore, and classical myth. Combining approaches from art history, history, alchemy, literature, cultural studies, and medievalism, applying rigorous critical lenses ranging from feminism and comparative literature to film and monster theory, this volume brings Melusine scholarship into the twenty-first century with twenty lively and evocative essays that reassess this powerful figure’s multiple meanings and illuminate her dynamic resonances across cultures and time. Contributors are Anna Casas Aguilar, Jennifer Alberghini, Frederika Bain, Anna-Lisa Baumeister, Albrecht Classen, Chera A. Cole, Tania M. Colwell, Zoë Enstone, Stacey L. Hahn, Deva F. Kemmis, Ana Pairet, Pit Péporté, Simone Pfleger, Caroline Prud’Homme, Melissa Ridley Elmes, Renata Schellenberg, Misty Urban, Angela Jane Weisl, Lydia Zeldenrust, and Zifeng Zhao.
