O oblívio de uma fada: o apagamento de Morgana n’A Demanda do Santo Graal

Abstract

The cavalry novels were widely spread during the medieval period; as it was being developed, this literature started to combine differents interests. The piece that will be analyzed here is the portuguese version of Demand of Holy Grail, from the thirteenth century, part of the corpus known as Matter of Britain. Here, we try to search to undertand how this celtic literature led to the process of christinization, emphasizing the plurality of authors who contribuited to the construction of the Breton cycle; we also approach the historical and literary contexts in which these narratives were insert. From the great Arthurian universe, we highlight Morgana’s characther, the fairy. We debate possibles reasons for the obliteration of her participation in The Demand, highlighting Morgana's relationship with the Celtic deities, her pagan background, the places where the fairy often appears and the characteristics she presents. The fairy Morgana is a character that brings together the caracteristics that defied the misogynist logic of the Middle Ages ; .Thus, we aim to understand how, through the development of the Arthurian myth, King Arthur's sister resisted the process of Christianization of the work