British Myrddin-Merlin: wisdom. Myrddin-Merlin
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
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
