King Arthur's Enchantresses | Taschenbuch

Cover: 9781784530419 | King Arthur's Enchantresses | Carolyne Larrington | Taschenbuch | 2014

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Beschreibung

Central to the legends of King Arthur are the mysterious, sexually alluring enchantresses, those spellcasters and mistresses of magic who wield extraordinary influence over Arthur's life and destiny, bestriding the Camelot mythology with a dark and brooding presence. Yet until now no book has told their stories in depth. Carolyne Larrington brings these dangerous women fully and vibrantly to life. Here is Morgan-le-Fay, a complex sorceress of immense cunning and skill, immortalised by Helen Mirren's Morgana in John Boorman's film Excalibur. Here too are the mystical Lady of the Lake; the beguiling Viviane, Merlin's deadly nemesis; and Morgause, Queen of Orkney, mother to Mordred, Arthur's incestuously-conceived son and his bitterest foe. Echoing the search for the Grail by the Knights of the Round Table, Larrington takes her readers on an intriguing quest - to discover why, over the centuries, the Arthurian enchrantresses have continued to bewitch those caught in their seductive web.
Whether chaste or depraved, necrophiliacs or virgins, benevolent or filled with hatred, the enchantresses are seen to represent a strain of female power that challenges male chivalric values from within. King Arthur's Enchantresses makes a unique contribution to writing on the Arthurian myths. It will intrigue and delight anyone with an interest in mythology, religion, cultural history and medieval literature.

Über den Autor

Carolyne Larringtonis Professor of Medieval Literature at University of Oxford, UK. She is the author of The Women's Companion to Mythology (1997), Morgan and her Sisters in Arthurian Tradition (2006), The Land of the Green Man(2015) and Winter is Coming (2015), among others.

Zusammenfassung

Who were the mysterious and seductive sorceresses whose power underlay Arthur's Camelot?

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
Introduction

Magic and the Enchantress

Morgan and Arthur

Morgan and Chivalry

Morgan, Other Knights and Enchantesses

Viviane, the Damoiselle Cacheresse and the Lady of the Lake

The Queen of Orkney

Vivien and the Victorians

Morgan, Morgause and the Modern Age

Notes
Bibliography
List of Pictures and Sources
Index

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2014
Genre:	Importe , Lyrik & Dramatik
Rubrik:	Belletristik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
Inhalt:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
ISBN-13:	9781784530419
ISBN-10:	1784530417
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Larrington, Carolyne
Hersteller:	Bloomsbury 3PL
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Libri GmbH, Europaallee 1, D-36244 Bad Hersfeld, gpsr@libri.de
Maße:	234 x 156 x 15 mm
Von/Mit:	Carolyne Larrington
Erscheinungsdatum:	25.11.2014
Gewicht:	0,433 kg