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Merlin's open mind : madness, prophecy, and poetry in Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Vita Merlini"
- This essay considers the observatory in Geoffrey of Monmouth's "Vita Merlini", with its seventy doors and seventy windows, as a structuring emblem of the title character's state of mind and, by extension, the poem's poetics and epistemology.
Author: | Monika Otter |
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URN: | urn:nbn:de:hebis:30:3-687037 |
URL: | https://press.ici-berlin.org/doi/10.37050/ci-23/otter_merlins-open-mind.pdf |
DOI: | https://doi.org/10.37050/ci-23_07 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-029-9 |
ISBN: | 978-3-96558-030-5 |
ISSN: | 2627-731X |
Parent Title (English): | Openness in Medieval Europe / ed. by Manuele Gragnolati and Almut Suerbaum ; Cultural Inquiry ; 23 |
Publisher: | ICI Press |
Place of publication: | Berlin |
Document Type: | Part of a Book |
Language: | English |
Date of Publication (online): | 2022/06/23 |
Year of first Publication: | 2022 |
Publishing Institution: | Universitätsbibliothek Johann Christian Senckenberg |
Release Date: | 2022/07/06 |
Tag: | Observatorium <Motiv> Allegory; Madness; Mental illness; Observatory; Prophecy |
GND Keyword: | Galfredus, Monumetensis; Vita Merlini; Sternwarte; Wahnsinn <Motiv>; Prophetie <Motiv>; Wildnis <Motiv> |
Page Number: | 17 |
First Page: | 128 |
Last Page: | 143 |
HeBIS-PPN: | 497200988 |
Dewey Decimal Classification: | 8 Literatur / 80 Literatur, Rhetorik, Literaturwissenschaft / 800 Literatur und Rhetorik |
8 Literatur / 87 Lateinische, italische Literaturen / 870 Italische Literaturen; Lateinische Literatur | |
8 Literatur / 89 Andere Literaturen / 890 Literaturen anderer Sprachen | |
Sammlungen: | CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft |
CompaRe | Allgemeine und Vergleichende Literaturwissenschaft / ICI Berlin | |
Licence (German): | Creative Commons - Namensnennung-Weitergabe unter gleichen Bedingungen 4.0 |