Melusine of Lusignan: Founding Fiction in Late Medieval FranceThis volume of original essays is the first collection devoted to the monumental Roman de Melusine (1393) by Jean d'Arras. A masterwork of late fourteenth century French prose fiction, Melusine tells of the powerful medieval dynasty of Lusignan from its founding as a city by the legendary Melusine, an enigmatic fairy figure subject to periodic monstrous transformations, through its expansion in Europe and the Near East, to its ultimate evanescence.