Prof. Burns will provide a reading of the hybrid fairy/woman/serpent in the fourteenth-century Roman de Melusine in relation to the equally hybrid figure of the woman-headed serpent found in a number of medieval visual representations of the Adam and Eve story. The talk explores this configuration of hybridity as an expansive model for gendered relations among individuals and for mapping an expansive dynastic reach for the descendants of the Lusignan family across the Mediterranean.

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