※　土曜日の秘密、蛇body の女性――中世の妖精伝説、批評校訂版で甦る　※

本書は、ジャン・ダラスによる『メリュジーヌ物語』（1387年頃）のスペイン語訳『麗しのメロシナ物語』の校訂版です。編者アイビー・A・コルフィスは、この物語が15世紀から16世紀にかけてベストセラーとなった作品であることを紹介しつつ、妖精メリュジーヌと人間の夫レーモンとの結びつき、リュジニャン家の興隆とその系譜、征服の物語をたどります。物語の核心は、土曜日にメリュジーヌを決して見ないというレーモンの誓いにあり、彼女は密かに下半身が蛇へと変化する姿を隠していました。誓いが破られたことで彼女は完全な妖精の姿へと戻り、人間界を去り、やがてポワトゥー地方の領地リュジニャン家は没落へと向かいます。情熱と悲劇、妖精と超自然的変身、戦闘と宮廷生活、王国建設といった主題を織り込んだこの物語は、『ティラン・ロ・ブラン』のような15世紀の騎士道物語や『アマディス』のような先行作品の系譜に連なる中世を代表する物語であり、本書はその精緻な校訂テクストと変異・注釈、用語集を収めています。書籍の言語：スペイン語　(SBC: 104320)

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- Edition, Study, and Notes by Ivy A.Corfis

Description:
Jean d’Arras’ Mélusine (c.1387)-or Historia de la linda Melosina, in its Spanish translation-was a best-seller of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Jean d’Arras’ narrative tells the story of the fairy Mélusine, her union with her mortal husband, Raimond, their building up of the House of Lusignan, their line, and their conquests. The conflict of Mélusine centers on Raimond’s promise never to see Mélusine on Saturday when she secretly becomes transformed into a serpent from the waist down. His breaking of that promise causes Mélusine’s metamorphosis into a purely fairy state, her departure from the mortal world, and the eventual downfall of the House of Lusignan, a fief in southwestern France, in the province of Poitou. The narrative of Mélusine and Lusignan, with its themes of passion and tragedy, of fairies and supernatural metamorphosis, of battles and court life and kingdom-building, all makes for a compelling tale which was a favorite of the Middle Ages.’ With its realism, as well as mystery, the text resembles, on the one hand, the fifteenth-century chivalric romances, such as Tirant to Blanch, with intricate detail of courtly customs, life and military strategy, and, on the other, the earlier texts, such as Amadis, with reference to chronicles, ages past, and cruel beings (i.e., Endriago and Orrible) who need be destroyed.

The romance begins with the story of King Elinas and his meeting of Présine in the forest. He immediately falls in love with the lovely damsel, and she consents to marry him upon the condition that he not see her during childbirth. The king so promises, and they live happily until the king, tricked by his son from a former marriage, walks in on Présine immediately after she has given birth to their three daughters: Mélusine, Mélior, and Palestine. Présine, enraged at the king for having broken his promise, leaves for the Isle of Avalon, taking the daughters with her.

On Avalon, Présine raises her daughters, telling them sadly of their lost heritage. Mélusine, the eldest, with the consent of her sisters, takes revenge on their father by imprisoning him in the mountain of Brumblerio. Présine punishes the daughters for their cruelty by assigning them each a penance. Mélusine’s punishment is to be transformed into a serpent from the waist down every Saturday, a transformation she must hide from her husband should she ever many.
- From Introduction


CONTENTS:

Acknowledgments......I

Introduction......III

Notes......XI

Description of Witnesses......XIII

Editorial Standards......XVII

Historia de la linda Melosina (1489)......1

Variants and Emendations......194

Notes to the Edition......207

Glossary......211

Select Bibliography on Melusine......216