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Les Miracles de Nostre Dame de Gautier de Coinci constituent le plus riche recueil de miracles narratifs. L'auteur ne s'est pas contenté de traduire un des multiples recueils de miracles latins. Il les a versifiés, amplifiés, vivifiés, par une éblouissante technique poétique et un fort engagement personnel, qui marquent son travail d'écrivain. Plus variés qu'on ne l'a dit, a ussi bien par le ton que le contenu, ces miracles renvoient l'image contrastée de son auteur. Attaché à transmettre un enseignement moral et doctrinal, il se laisse emporter par un lyrisme débordant, une ardeur de polémiste et la volonté constante de capter l'attention d'un public davantage attiré par la littérature profane.

Mary, --- Legends. --- Maria Deipara --- Miracles

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Jews --- Jewish legends. --- Tales. --- Jewish legends --- Tales --- History and criticism. --- Europe, Eastern

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Why should a supposedly Biblical relic lay down its literary roots in medieval French literature? This study of the Holy Grail, drawing on the psychoanalytic works of Jacques Lacan and the cultural theory of Slavoj Zizek, argues that the Grail should be read as a symptom of disruption and obscurity rather than fulfilment and revelation. The Holy Grail made its first literary appearance in the work of the twelfth-century French poet, Chrétien de Troyes, and continues to fascinate authors and audiences alike. This study, supported by a theoretical framework based on the psychoanalytic works of Jacques Lacan and the cultural theory of Slavoj Zizek, aims to strip the legend of much of the mythological and folkloric association that it has acquired over the centuries, arguing that the Grail should be read as a symptom of disruption and obscurity rather than fulfilment and revelation. Focusing on two thirteenth-century Arthurian prose romances, 'La Queste del Saint Graal' and 'Perlesvaus', and drawing extensively on the wider field of Old French Grail literature including the works of Chrétien and Robert de Boron, the book examines the personal, social and textual effects produced by encounters with the Grail in order to suggest that the Grail itself is instrumental not only in creating but also in disturbing, the discursive, psychic and cultural bonds that are represented in this complex and captivating literary tradition. BEN RAMM is Research Fellow in French, St. Catharine's College, Cambridge.

Grail --- Arthurian romances --- French poetry --- Legends --- History and criticism.

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Archaeological geology --- Legends --- History & Archaeology --- Archaeology --- Myth --- Geology --- Geological --- Interpretation

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Serpent Mother is about devotion to the Goddess of Snakes and the importance of divine female power in West Bengal Indian life. The film's focus is the Jhapan Festival, the great celebration of snakes.

Cultural identity. --- Hinduism. --- Indian. --- Myths and legends. --- Religion. --- Religious rites and ceremonies. --- Women.