{"title":"The Head of Satalia: A Romance Monstrously Birthed","authors":"Joel Lipson","doi":"10.1353/sip.2022.0018","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"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.","PeriodicalId":45500,"journal":{"name":"STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY","volume":"119 1","pages":"579 - 620"},"PeriodicalIF":0.2000,"publicationDate":"2022-09-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"STUDIES IN PHILOLOGY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1353/sip.2022.0018","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"LANGUAGE & LINGUISTICS","Score":null,"Total":0}
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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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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.
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