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.
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| 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 |
