Merlin: knowledge and power through the ages

British Myrddin-Merlin: wisdom. Myrddin-Merlin

The earliest materials

Natural wisdom: Myrddin of Cumbria

Prophetic wisdom: Myrddin of Wales

Wisdom at court: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Historia Regum Britanniae

Twelfth-century natural wisdom: Geoffrey of Monmouth's Vita Merlini

Medieval Merlin: advice. From prophecy to advice: Wace

Christian advice: Robert de Boron

Grand Vizier: the vulgate Merlin

Darkening advice: the post-vulgate Merlin

Advising a nation: from Layamon to Malory

English Merlin: cleverness. Prophecy and advice in decline

Renaissance cleverness

Cleverness high and low: the seventeenth century

Cleverness high and low: the eighteenth century

The dangers of cleverness: the romantics

The dangers of cleverness: the Victorians

International Merlin: education. Continental Merlin: from cleverness back to wisdom

Toward education: America

Toward education: Britain

Education and the novel: White, Lewis, and Cooper

Education and the novel: historicism, juveniles, and fantasy

Merlin on screen

International Merlin.