Fairies, demons and reckless women : reading supernatural encounters in Middle English Breton Lays in didactic terms
In medieval romances, and particularly, Breton lays, supernatural creatures such as fairies, and the occasional demon featured often. This thesis seeks to study the interactions these creatures had with men and women within these stories, aiming to examine how these moments may have illuminated the...
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| author | Thaheera Salam Mohamed Althaf |
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| description | In medieval romances, and particularly, Breton lays, supernatural creatures such as fairies, and the occasional demon featured often. This thesis seeks to study the interactions these creatures had with men and women within these stories, aiming to examine how these moments may have illuminated the way medieval audiences would have read them alongside medieval conduct literature, in similarly didactic terms. |
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| spelling | ntu-10356/1519442023-03-11T20:17:01Z Fairies, demons and reckless women : reading supernatural encounters in Middle English Breton Lays in didactic terms Thaheera Salam Mohamed Althaf Katherine Hindley School of Humanities khindley@ntu.edu.sg Humanities::Literature::English In medieval romances, and particularly, Breton lays, supernatural creatures such as fairies, and the occasional demon featured often. This thesis seeks to study the interactions these creatures had with men and women within these stories, aiming to examine how these moments may have illuminated the way medieval audiences would have read them alongside medieval conduct literature, in similarly didactic terms. Master of Arts 2021-07-09T00:01:42Z 2021-07-09T00:01:42Z 2021 Thesis-Master by Research Thaheera Salam Mohamed Althaf (2021). Fairies, demons and reckless women : reading supernatural encounters in Middle English Breton Lays in didactic terms. Master's thesis, Nanyang Technological University, Singapore. https://hdl.handle.net/10356/151944 https://hdl.handle.net/10356/151944 10.32657/10356/151944 en This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License (CC BY-NC 4.0). application/pdf Nanyang Technological University |
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| title | Fairies, demons and reckless women : reading supernatural encounters in Middle English Breton Lays in didactic terms |
| title_full | Fairies, demons and reckless women : reading supernatural encounters in Middle English Breton Lays in didactic terms |
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| title_full_unstemmed | Fairies, demons and reckless women : reading supernatural encounters in Middle English Breton Lays in didactic terms |
| title_short | Fairies, demons and reckless women : reading supernatural encounters in Middle English Breton Lays in didactic terms |
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