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Magical Artifice and Artificial History in the 'Roman de Perceforest'
The 'Roman de Perceforest' contains fascinating and original portrayals of magical artifice, which have intrigued scholars of Old French for many decades. It is also a peculiarly overt project of 'artificial' history, filling in a lacuna of Arthurian genealogy: King Perceforest's dynasty in pagan …
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Founding Women in Medieval French Prose Romance
… 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 contrary, that for these medieval authors women constitute an untapped …