TOWARDS THE SOURCES OF THE LEGEND OF THE DRAGON OF RHODES
TOWARDS THE SOURCES OF THE LEGEND OF THE DRAGON OF RHODES
Subject(s): History, Language and Literature Studies, Literary Texts, Cultural history, Poetry, Fiction, Studies of Literature, History of ideas, Middle Ages, Modern Age, German Literature, Greek Literature, Other Language Literature, 13th to 14th Centuries, 15th Century, 16th Century, 17th Century, Italian literaturePublished by: Институт за балканистика с Център по тракология - Българска академия на науките
Keywords: Deodat de Gozon; the Rhodes Dragon; the Order of the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John at Rhodes; the Alexander Romance; Historia di preliis;
Summary/Abstract: The present article is an attempt to search for the sources of the legend of the fight of Deodat de Gozon (Dieudonne de Gozon), the future 27th Grand Master of the Knights Hospitaller of Saint John at Rhodes (1346 – 1353) with the monstrous dragon of Rhodes in the period during which the island was ruled by the Order of the Knights Hospitaller and also for its possible primary literary sources in the mediaeval tradition of the Alexander Romance, resp. of its version Historia di preliis;
Journal: Études balkaniques
- Issue Year: 2022
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 29-47
- Page Count: 19
- Language: English
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