Gesta Romanorum : or, Entertaining moral stories; invented by the monks as a fireside recreation, and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit: whence the most celebrated of our own poets and others, from the earliest times, have extracted their plots

Author(s)

• Swan, Charles
• Hooper, Wynnard

Bibliographic Information

Gesta Romanorum : or, Entertaining moral stories; invented by the monks as a fireside recreation, and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit: whence the most celebrated of our own poets and others, from the earliest times, have extracted their plots

translated from the Latin, with preliminary observations and copious notes, by Charles Swan ; revised and corrected by Wynnard Hooper

Dover Publications, 1959

Uniform Title

Gesta Romanorum

Note

Reprint. Originally published: Bohn Library, 1876

Includes bibliographical references

Details

• NCID: BA24216631
• LCCN: 59004176
• Country Code: us
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Original Language Code: lat
• Place of Publication: New York
• Pages/Volumes: lxxvi, 425 p.
• Size: 21 cm
• Classification:
  • LCC : PA8323.E5
  • DC : 873/.03
• Subject Headings:
  • LCSH : Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English
  • LCSH : Exempla