Lydia ZeldenrustThe Mélusine Romance in Medieval Europe
Translation, Circulation, and Material Contexts
Introduction: Mutations of Mélusine Chapter 1: The French Mélusine and
Roman de Parthenay Textual Witnesses: Audience, Variance, Selected Corpus
Mélusine: God's Marvellous Monster Careful Plotting: Revealing Mélusine's
Curse and Fairy Nature From Half-Serpent to Serpent: Hybridity and
Transformation Inheriting Monstrosity: Mélusine's Sons Chapter 2: The
German Melusine From Manuscript to Print: Audiences, Images, and Textual
Stability Melusine the Ideal Christian Fairy Serpent or Half-Serpent?
Melusine the Monstrous Mother Chapter 3: The Castilian Melosina The 1489
Edition by Parix and Cleblat The 1526 Edition by the Crombergers Key
Transformations in Style and Paratext Melosina: More Fairy than Human? A
Catholic Wedding Duality Versus Animality Depicting/Recycling the Monstrous
Body: Melosina's Sons Chapter 4: The Dutch Meluzine The 1491 Edition by
Gheraert Leeu The 1510 Edition by Henrick Eckert van Homberch The 1602
Edition by Hieronymus I Verdussen A Hybrid Translation: How, Why, and Which
Source? More Human than Fairy Becoming the Animal Increased Focus on
Hybridity Chapter 5: The English Melusine and Partenay The Prose Melusine
The Printed Melusine Fragments The Verse Partenay Why Translations of Both
Versions? Translation Strategies: Content versus Form 'ryght as the frenshe
wil yiff me evidence': Invisibility and Close Translation Melusine and Her
Part-Monstrous Sons Conclusion: Mélusine's European Dimensions Appendix:
Manuscripts and Printed Editions of the Various Mélusine Versions (up to c.
1600)
