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Magical Artifice and Artificial History in the 'Roman de Perceforest' 10.17863/CAM.72060 Atkin, Timothy Huot, Sylvia The 'Roman de Perceforest' contains fascinating and original portrayals of magical artifice, which have intrigued scholars of Old French for many decades. It is also a peculiarly overt project of 'artificial' history, filling in a lacuna of Arthurian genealogy: King Perceforest's dynasty in pagan Britain. Under the umbrella of 'artifice', this thesis seeks to understand and explore the author's sense of his own artifice - that of writing a fictional history - through the text's portrayals of magical artifice, and artifice in other forms. Magic was a polemical topic in the late middle ages, and the matter of fiction appears similarly thought-provoking! University of Cambridge 2021-05-01 Thesis Doctoral Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) eng AHRC https://www.repository.cam.ac.uk/handle/1810/324605 https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/f8cad1f8-3f78-488f-95f9-4fd9c9c18138/download 3a861d37890d6df2f6af9c2a9ee7cf1a https://apollo8-f-pro.lib.cam.ac.uk/bitstreams/15abfb21-c177-4a90-a090-3e22cf7823f5/download 353adac0d1ebdfd65ab16480263c3c87 https://www.rioxx.net/licenses/all-rights-reserved/ Perceforest Magic Fiction Old French artifice