Fantastic histories : medieval fairy narratives and the limits of wonder / Victoria Flood.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Flood, Victoria, author.

Series:

Manchester medieval literature and culture.

Manchester medieval literature and culture

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Fairies in literature--History and criticism--To 1500.

Fairies in literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 288 pages) : digital file(s).

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Manchester, UK : Manchester University Press, 2024.

Language Note:

In English.

System Details:

data file

Biography/History:

Victoria Flood is Associate Professor in Medieval and Early Modern Literature at the University of Birmingham.

Summary:

Fantastic Histories explores the political and cultural contexts of the entry of fairies to the historical record in twelfth century England, and the subsequent uses of fairy narratives in both insular and continental history and romance. It traces the uses of the fairy as a contested marker of historicity and fictionality in the histories of Gerald of Wales and Walter Map, the continental mirabilia of Gervase of Tilbury, and the fourteenth- and fifteenth-century French Mélusine romances and their early English reception. Working across insular and continental source material, Fantastic Histories explores the practices of history-writing, fiction-making, and the culturally determined boundaries of wonder that defined the limits of medieval history.

Contents:

Front Matter

Dedication

Contents

Acknowledgements

Preface

Introduction

1 ‘Historia fabulosa’

2 ‘Relatum ueridica’

3 ‘Le Noble hystoire’

4 ‘En rime l’istoire’

Conclusion

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on publisher-supplied metadata and e-publication, viewed October 23, 2024.

ISBN:

9781526188182

152618818X

9781526164155

1526164159

OCLC:

1453643513