The True History of Merlin the Magician:
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| Item Description: | Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century though the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, Merlin the historical' figure and his relation to medieval magic are less familiar. In this book Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores just who he was, and what he has meant to Britain. The historical Merlin was no rough magician: he was a learned figure from the cutting edge of medieval science and adept in astrology, cosmology, prophecy and natural magic, as well as being a seer and a proto-alchemist. His powers were convincingly real-and useful, for they helped to add credibility to the 'long-lost' history of Britain which first revealed them to a European public. Merlin's prophecies reassuringly foretold Britain's path, establishing an ancient ancestral line and linking biblical prophecy with more recent times. Merlin helped to put British history into world history. Lawrence-Mathers also explores the meaning of Merlin's magic across the centuries, arguing that he embodied ancient Christian and pagan magical traditions, recreated for a medieval court and shaped to fit a new moral framework. Linking Merlin's reality and power with the culture of the Middle Ages, this remarkable book reveals the true impact of the most famous magician of all time |
| Physical Description: | 275 pages |
| ISBN: | 1283656590 9781283656597 030018929X 9780300189292 9780300144895 030014489X |
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| spelling | The True History of Merlin the Magician Yale University Press 2012 275 pages txt rdacontent c rdamedia cr rdacarrier Merlin the Magician has remained an enthralling and curious individual since he was first introduced in the twelfth century though the pages of Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae. But although the Merlin of literature and Arthurian myth is well known, Merlin the historical' figure and his relation to medieval magic are less familiar. In this book Anne Lawrence-Mathers explores just who he was, and what he has meant to Britain. The historical Merlin was no rough magician: he was a learned figure from the cutting edge of medieval science and adept in astrology, cosmology, prophecy and natural magic, as well as being a seer and a proto-alchemist. His powers were convincingly real-and useful, for they helped to add credibility to the 'long-lost' history of Britain which first revealed them to a European public. Merlin's prophecies reassuringly foretold Britain's path, establishing an ancient ancestral line and linking biblical prophecy with more recent times. Merlin helped to put British history into world history. Lawrence-Mathers also explores the meaning of Merlin's magic across the centuries, arguing that he embodied ancient Christian and pagan magical traditions, recreated for a medieval court and shaped to fit a new moral framework. Linking Merlin's reality and power with the culture of the Middle Ages, this remarkable book reveals the true impact of the most famous magician of all time Geoffrey / of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph / 1100?-1154 Geoffrey of Monmouth, Bishop of St. Asaph 1100?-1154 Characters Merlin Merlin Fiktive Gestalt 540-612 (DE-588)118581171 gnd rswk-swf BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Literary bisacsh BIOGRAPHY & AUTOBIOGRAPHY / Historical bisacsh Merlin (Legendary character) Arthurian romances History and criticism (DE-588)4006804-3 Biografie gnd-content Merlin Fiktive Gestalt 540-612 (DE-588)118581171 p 1\p DE-604 Lawrence-Mathers, Anne 1953- Sonstige (DE-588)173669646 oth 1\p cgwrk 20201028 DE-101 https://d-nb.info/provenance/plan#cgwrk |
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