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The Adventures of Gillion de Trazegnies
Chivalry and Romance in the Medieval East
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Artikel-Nr:
9781606064634
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
25.12.2015
Seiten:
176
Autor:
Elizabeth Morrison
Gewicht:
1235 g
Format:
315x237x20 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Elizabeth Morrison is senior curator of manuscripts at the J. Paul Getty Museum and is a specialist in Flemish illumination. Zrinka Stahuljak is professor of French and comparative literature at the University of California, Los Angeles, and has published widely on romance and the medieval Mediterranean.
One of the finest works from the golden era of Flemish manuscript illumination, the Getty's copy of the Romance of Gillion de Trazegnies tells of the adventures of a medieval nobleman. Part travelogue, part romance, and part epic, the text traces the exciting exploits of Gillion as he journeys to Jerusalem on pilgrimage, is imprisoned in Egypt and rises to the command of the Sultan's armies, mistakenly becomes a bigamist first with a Christian and then a Muslim wife, and dies in battle as a glorious hero. The tale encompasses the most thrilling elements of the Western romance genre -- love, villainy, loyalty, and war -- set against the backdrop of the East.