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A Mantic Disposition: The Prophetic Madman in the Woods in Medieval Narratives.

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	A Mantic Disposition: The Prophetic Madman in the Woods in Medieval Narratives./
Author:	Lopatin, Jennifer.
Published:	Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, : 2023,
Description:	279 p.
Notes:	Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.
Contained By:	Dissertations Abstracts International85-01A.
Subject:	Medieval literature. -
Online resource:	https://pqdd.sinica.edu.tw/twdaoapp/servlet/advanced?query=30527997
ISBN:	9798379756574

A Mantic Disposition: The Prophetic Madman in the Woods in Medieval Narratives.
Lopatin, Jennifer.

A Mantic Disposition: The Prophetic Madman in the Woods in Medieval Narratives. - Ann Arbor : ProQuest Dissertations & Theses, 2023 - 279 p.

Source: Dissertations Abstracts International, Volume: 85-01, Section: A.

Thesis (Ph.D.)--Indiana University, 2023.

This item must not be sold to any third party vendors.

This dissertation explores the figure of the prophetic wild man in the woods in medieval narratives as well as his afterlives. As liminal figures straddling boundaries of mad and sane, wild and civilized, and secular and sacred, these prophetic madmen are ideally poised to access extra-human knowledge and use that knowledge to speak truth to power. In order for these secular-i.e. outside of religious institutions-figures to be able to prophesy, something must break. The texts render this break as madness-a break from some combination of fellow-feeling, reason, and society in favor of a lone and difficult existence in the wild. This project examines the narratives of Lailoken, Suibhne Geilt, Merlin in the Vita Merlini, each in their respective contexts. The same stark similarities that tie together these geographically distinct narratives also provide links across time: the Middle English Sir Gowther converts Merlin's excessive knowledge to excessive violence, and King Lear's Fool prophesies in the wild amidst burgeoning madness all around. Echoing with resonances of the desert fathers and holy fool, the prophetic madmen defy expectations in order to teach their audiences about the nature of knowledge-that it need not immediately be legible to be valuable, just like prophecy. Radically ambiguous and peculiarly vulnerable, the prophetic madman in the woods and his afterlives represent more ambivalent attitude toward ontologies and epistemologies than previously thought of the British Isles and Ireland in the medieval period and after.{A0}

ISBN: 9798379756574Subjects--Topical Terms:

3168324
Medieval literature.
Subjects--Index Terms:

Celtic literatures

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