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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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