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This bilingual edition, a parallel text in Old French and English, is based on a reexamination of the Old French manuscript, and makes Silence available to specialists and students in various fields of literature and women's studies.
The Roman de Silence, an Arthurian romance of the thirteenth century, tells of a girl raised as a boy, equally accomplished as a minstrel and knight, whose final task, the capture of Merlin, leads to her unmasking.
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Bruce Lodge
reviewed Silence on August 13, 2011
Silence
Silence is the story of a woman raised as a man, who becomes a minstrel and a knight, highly accomplished at everything he does. It plays out a conflict between Nature and Nurture. Though Nature seems to win at the end, it's ambiguous: she only does so through Merlin revealing Silence's identity. It's somewhat unsurprising that at that point in the poem, Silence loses all agency and the story grinds to a halt.
As a story, it's a fun one -- it's an expansion of the kind of story told in part of the Vulgate Cycle, the story of Grisandole. Parts are very like it, along with a sort of Potiphar's wife situation/Life of St. Eugenia...
It's an important text in terms of the exploration of gender in the Middle Ages, and it isn't a bad read, either. The introduction is good, and the translation fairly clear. For whatever my French is worth (B at A Level in Modern French), the translation seems accurate, too.
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