The Head of Satalia: A Romance Monstrously Birthed

IF 0.2 3区文学 0 LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS

STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY Pub Date : 2022-09-01 DOI:10.1353/sip.2022.0018

Joel Lipson

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Abstract

Abstract:For medieval authors and modern scholars alike, the twelfth-century legend of the Head of Satalia represents something of a curious aberration. Retold and reimagined in many different literary contexts over several centuries, this etiological narrative of necrophilia, monstrosity, and supernatural destruction inhabits and exposes the overlap between multiple genres of medieval writing. But despite its uncertain origin and generic flexibility, the Satalia legend of the late medieval textual record owes much to the themes, motifs, and structural expectations of chivalric romance. This article examines and compares all known branches of the medieval legend for the first time, charting its development and arguing that the Head of Satalia represents a subversive, self-critical romance tradition much adapted by its inheritors.

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萨塔利亚的头:一个怪物般的浪漫诞生

摘要：对于中世纪作家和现代学者来说，十二世纪萨塔利亚之首的传说代表了一种奇怪的反常现象。几个世纪以来，这种恋尸癖、怪物和超自然破坏的病因叙事在许多不同的文学背景下进行了重新思考和重新想象，并揭示了中世纪多种写作流派之间的重叠。但是，尽管起源不确定，而且具有普遍的灵活性，中世纪晚期文本记录中的萨塔利亚传说在很大程度上归功于骑士浪漫主义的主题、主题和结构期望。本文首次考察和比较了中世纪传说的所有已知分支，绘制了其发展图，并认为萨塔利亚之首代表了一种颠覆性的、自我批评的浪漫传统，其继承者对此进行了大量改编。

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期刊介绍： Founded in 1903, Studies in Philology addresses scholars in a wide range of disciplines, though traditionally its strength has been English Medieval and Renaissance studies. SIP publishes articles on British literature before 1900 and on relations between British literature and works in the Classical, Romance, and Germanic Languages.