Political prophecy was a common mode of literature in the British Isles and much of Europe from the Middle Ages to at least as late as the Renaissance. At times

William Owen Pughe, A Dictionary of the Welsh Language, Vol. II; London: Printed for E. Williams, 1803.

In this lively interdisciplinary study, Elissa R. Henken combines the tools of the historian and the folklorist to explore the development of a powerful, polyse