Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance (Medieval Texts and Studies) - Softcover

Roche-Mahdi, Sarah

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9780870135439: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance (Medieval Texts and Studies)

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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.

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

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9780937191316: Silence: A Thirteenth-Century French Romance (Medieval Texts and Studies) (English and Old French Edition)

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ISBN 10:  0937191310 ISBN 13:  9780937191316
Publisher: Colleagues Pr, 1992
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