On Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:16:57 GMT Mike Lacey wrote:
> From: Mike Lacey <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Wed, 25 Sep 1996 15:16:57 GMT
> Subject: Re: wheel of fortune
> To: [log in to unmask]
>
> As does Geoffrey of Monmouth in the Arthurian section of his Historia
> Regnum Britanniae (if memory serves me correctly). Again, though, only
> just pre-1150...
>
>Actually no - I speak as one whose thesis was on the subject! Geoffrey does not use the image of
fortune's wheel, despite Hanning's chapter 'Great men on a great wheel'. The Governing principle
in Geoffrey is always divine providence - the Britons are a 'chosen race' with a divine destiny. It is
Wace who itntroduces the theme of fortune. Oriens.
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