Medieval comic tales
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Medieval comic tales
D.S. Brewer , Boydell & Brewer, 1996
2nd ed
- : pbk
Available at 21 libraries
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Translators: Peter Rickard, Alan Deyermond, David Blamires, David Johnson, Michael Lapidge
Includes bibliographical references
Description and Table of Contents
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ISBN 9780859914307
Description
During the middle ages, a common fund of comic tales circulated throughout Europe. Writers such as Boccaccio, Chaucer, Rabelais and Cervantes drew on this material, and used it for their own purposes, but the brilliant medieval versions also deserve to be known in their own right. They are of great cultural interest and considerable entertainment value, varying from humour to farce, from sophisticated literary parody to blunt crudeness. Piety jostles blasphemy, and sex and death are everywhere good for a joke. The tales presented here, translated into clear modern English by experts in their fields, are from French, Spanish, Dutch, German, medieval Latin, Italian and English.
This second edition contains more comic tales and has benefitted from recent scholarship; there is a substantial new introduction by Derek Brewer. Scholars and students in many disciplines, and general readers, will find the book accessible, useful and enjoyable. DEREK BREWER is Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of Cambridge.The contributors are: PETER RICKARD, ALAN DEYERMOND, DAVID JOHNSON, DAVID BLAMIRES, MICHAEL LAPIDGE, DEREK BREWER
Table of Contents
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: pbk ISBN 9780859914857
Description
During the middle ages, a common fund of comic tales circulated throughout Europe. Writers such as Boccaccio, Chaucer, Rabelais and Cervantes drew on this material, and used it for their own purposes, but the brilliant medieval versions also deserve to be known in their own right. They are of great cultural interest and considerable entertainment value, varying from humour to farce, from sophisticated literary parody to blunt crudeness. Piety jostles blasphemy, and sex and death are everywhere good for a joke. The tales presented here, translated into clear modern English by experts in their fields, are from French, Spanish, Dutch, German, medieval Latin, Italian and English.
This second edition contains more comic tales and has benefitted from recent scholarship; there is a substantial new introduction by Derek Brewer. Scholars and students in many disciplines, and general readers, will find the book accessible, useful and enjoyable.
The late DEREK BREWER was Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of Cambridge.
Table of Contents
- French tales, translated by Peter Rickard
- Spanish tales, translated by Alan Deyermond
- English tales, translated by Derek Brewer
- Italian tales, translated by Derek Brewer
- German tales, translated by David Blamires
- Dutch tales, translated by David Johnson
- Medieval Latin tales, translated by Michael Lapidge.
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