Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance
This bilingual edition, a parallel text in Old French and English, is based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, and makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literature and women's studies.
     The Roman de Silence, an Arthurian romance of the thirteenth century, tells of a girl raised as a boy, equally accomplished as a minstrel and knight, whose final task, the capture of Merlin, leads to her unmasking.

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Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance
This bilingual edition, a parallel text in Old French and English, is based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, and makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literature and women's studies.
     The Roman de Silence, an Arthurian romance of the thirteenth century, tells of a girl raised as a boy, equally accomplished as a minstrel and knight, whose final task, the capture of Merlin, leads to her unmasking.

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Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

by Sarah Roche-Mahdi
Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance

by Sarah Roche-Mahdi

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This bilingual edition, a parallel text in Old French and English, is based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, and makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literature and women's studies.
     The Roman de Silence, an Arthurian romance of the thirteenth century, tells of a girl raised as a boy, equally accomplished as a minstrel and knight, whose final task, the capture of Merlin, leads to her unmasking.


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780870135439
Publisher: Michigan State University Press
Publication date: 08/31/1999
Series: Medieval Texts and Studies
Edition description: REVISED
Pages: 343
Product dimensions: 6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.90(d)

About the Author

Sarah Roche-Mahdi lives in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and is an editor/translator, long-time rights activist, scholar, and writer.

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