Donald Maddox Copyright (c) 2013 All rights reserved. http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox Recent documents in Donald Maddox en-us Tue, 29 Jan 2013 09:05:26 PST 3600 Melusine; or the Noble History of Lusignan http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/12 http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/12 Tue, 20 Nov 2012 09:03:25 PST Jean d’Arras’s splendid late fourteenth-century prose romance 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.

]]> Donald Maddox et al. BOOKS BOOK TRANSLATION Froissart Across the Genres http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/11 http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/11 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:56:14 PST Donald Maddox EDITED VOLUMES Literary Aspects of Courtly Culture http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/10 http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/10 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 10:00:23 PST Donald Maddox EDITED VOLUMES Transtextualities: Of Cycles and Cyclicity in Medieval French Literature http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/9 http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/9 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:58:31 PST Donald Maddox EDITED VOLUMES Melusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Medieval France http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/8 http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/8 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:48:23 PST Donald Maddox EDITED VOLUMES The Medieval French Alexander http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/6 http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/6 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:45:10 PST Donald Maddox EDITED VOLUMES Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century: The 'Miracles de Nostre Dame par personnages' http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/5 http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/5 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:43:08 PST Donald Maddox EDITED VOLUMES Structure and Sacring: The Systematic Kingdom in Chrétien's 'Erec et Enide' http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/4 http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/4 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:36:01 PST Donald Maddox BOOKS Semiotics of Deceit: The Pathelin Era http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/3 http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/3 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:14:02 PST Donald Maddox BOOKS The Arthurian Romances of Chrétien de Troyes: Once and Future Fictions http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/2 http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/2 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:08:49 PST Donald Maddox BOOKS Fictions of Identity in Medieval France http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/1 http://works.bepress.com/donald_maddox/1 Wed, 01 Dec 2010 09:03:04 PST Donald Maddox BOOKS