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Silence

This bilingual edition, a parallel text in Old French and English, is based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, and makes Silenceavailable to specialists and students in various fields of literature and women's studies.

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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.

Setting
medievalcollege
Subject
history
Audience
adult
Length
medium · 343 pages
Form
poetry

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