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Hidden Doublings: A Context for Understanding Jean d'Arras's Mélusine ou la Noble Histoire de Lusignan
… rewrote a popular folktale. The tale told how Mélusine, a fairy who was serpent from the navel down every Saturday, married a knight and founded the fortress of Lusignan. In his introduction to the tale Jean d’Arras presents the ideas of four authority figures to convince the reader that …
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Founding Women in Medieval French Prose Romance
… genealogical texts – Jean d’Arras’ Roman de Mélusine, the prehistory of the Tristan en Prose, and the Roman de Perceforest illustrate first and foremost the limits of the widely accepted assertion regarding the ‘absence’ of women in genealogical narratives of the time. I argue, on the …