Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages
Merlin: Knowledge and Power through the Ages by Stephen Knight
2009 | ISBN: 0801443652, 1501705695 | English | 296 pages | PDF | 7 MB
2009 | ISBN: 0801443652, 1501705695 | English | 296 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Merlin, the wizard of Arthurian legend, has been a source of enduring fascination for centuries. In this authoritative, entertaining, and generously illustrated book, Stephen Knight traces the myth of Merlin back to its earliest roots in the early Welsh figure of Myrddin. He then follows Merlin as he is imagined and reimagined through centuries of literature and art, beginning with Geoffrey of Monmouth, whose immensely popular History of the Kings of Britain (1138) transmitted the story of Merlin to Europe at large. He covers French and German as well as Anglophone elements of the myth and brings the story up to the present with discussions of a globalized Merlin who finds his way into popular literature, film, television, and New Age philosophy.