Merlin – Knowledge and Power through the Ages Knight Paperback 9781501705694

Merlin\nby Stephen Knight\nPaperback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Stephen Knight\nTitle: Merlin\nFormat: Paperback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Folklore studies / Study of myth (mythology)\nPublisher: Cornell University Press\nPublication year: 2016\nISBN-13: 9781501705694\nISBN-10: 1501705695\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nMerlin, 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) transmi.