Marzella, Francesco, “Mondi fatati nella letteratura Anglo-Latina del XII secolo (Guglielmo di Newburgh, Giraldo Cambrense, Miracles of Farne)”, in: Franca Ela Consolino, Francesco Marzella, and Lucilla Spetia (eds), Aspetti del meraviglioso nelle letterature medievali = Aspects du merveilleux dans les littératures médiévales: medioevo latino, romanzo, germanico e celtico, 29, Turnhout: Brepols, 2016. 81–92.
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Three narrations of journeys to other worlds found in Latin texts written in Britain in the late 12th century are examined in this paper. The first narration comes from William of Newburgh’s Historia Rerum Anglicarum (I, 28); the second story is found in Gerald of Wales’ Itinerarium Kambriae (I, 28) and the third one in a collection of miracles attributed to St. Cuthbert, known as The Miracles of Farne.
The purpose of the paper is to analyse the approach of each writer to the marvellous and to show how a similar subject could be shaped in different ways and adapted to different literary genres in order to convey different kind of messages and teachings. The analysis and comparison of these three texts focus on: what these texts deal with, looking at their narrative structure and highlighting their common points; how these stories were told by different authors, pointing out the peculiarities of each text; why these similar narrations were inserted in texts belonging to different literary genres.
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