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. %%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%