Medieval Cautionary Tales: An Anthology
ISBN: 9781599100616
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / Italica Press, Inc.
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: Tales Medieval -- Translations into English; Tales -- England; Conduct of life -- Fiction;

Seventy-nine representative tales of the Middle Ages and early Renaissance, together with useful and well-informed introductions to genres and traditions. Part I surveys the Spanish tradition. Part II offers a representative selection of sixteen French fabliaux. Part III presents English stories that set the stage for Elizabethan comedy. Speed edits these tales with all the rough edges, ribald humor, and unapologetic earthiness of their time and place. Here the reader will discover stories that recall Aesop, Boccaccio, Chaucer, Shakespeare and Molière, as vixen and wolf, monk and priest, merchant and shopkeeper, lord of the manor and courtly lady, all wage sexual and social, moral, religious and economic battles of wit, chicanery, and -- sometimes -- loyalty and faith. 79 tales. Introduction, bibliography. Illustrated.


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