Ysengrimus - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Ysengrimus write by Nivardus. This book was released on 1987. Ysengrimus available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. The "Ysengrimus" is the first fully-fledged medieval beast-epic, and the poem in which Reynard the Fox makes his first appearance on the stage of world literature. It thus occupies a key position in the long and fertile tradition of medieval beast-literature, but it also claims attention as a masterpiece in its own right, the work of one of the most daring and original satirists of the Middle Ages. Despite its importance, the "Ysengrimus" has been comparatively neglected because of its linguistic difficulties. Jill Mann eases these difficulties by presenting an English translation alongside the Latin text, and accompanying it with a detailed commentary. A full- length introduction offers an original account of the poem which shows how literary structure and historical dimensions are fused into an original satiric vision of compelling power. This book will not only interest medieval Latin specialists, but will make this major text accessible to those working on the related vernacular traditions. Its analysis of the poem's allusions to contemporary persons and events will also be of considerable interest to historians of twelfth-century Flanders.
A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes
A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes write by Willem Pieter Gerritsen. This book was released on 1998. A Dictionary of Medieval Heroes available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. "The different cultures from which the middle ages drew its inspiration are represented: Cu Cuchulainn from the Celtic world, Apollonius of Tyre from Greek romance, Attila the Hun and Theodoric the Ostrogoth from the struggle of the Roman empire against the Barbarians. Each entry gives an outline of the story, how it spread through Europe, its modern retelling and appearances in art, and a selective bibliography."--Jacket.
Reynard the Fox
Reynard the Fox - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Reynard the Fox write by Kenneth Varty. This book was released on 2003-11. Reynard the Fox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. There are many stories featuring the villainous hero Reynard the Fox in many languages told over many centuries, goingback as far as the early 12th century. All these stories are comic and much of the humour depends on parody and satire resulting in mockery, sometimes the subversion of certain kinds of serious literature, of political and religious institutions and practices, of scholarly argument and moralizing, and of popular beliefs and customs. The contributors to this volume, all of them experts in one or more of the Reynard stories and their backgrounds, focus on the transformation of these tales through various media and to what extent they reflect differences in the cultural, class, and generational background of their tellers.
Introducing the Medieval Fox
Introducing the Medieval Fox - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Introducing the Medieval Fox write by Paul Wackers. This book was released on 2023-02-15. Introducing the Medieval Fox available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. This book is an entertaining, informative and enchanting introduction to its subject – just as those medieval banes of the farmyard, the Fox and the Vixen, were enchanting in escapades from fables and funny tales, from beastly epic poems and bestiaries, and from medieval material culture (in Danish wall-paintings and Dutch manuscript illustrations and statues, stained-glass and Italian mosaics). There exist books on medieval fox stories and on the animal’s iconography, which are important themes in this study, but this book is the first holistic approach to all types of manifestations of foxes in medieval culture – from medical recipes and fur trade, to Bible commentaries and hunting manuals.
Folklore
Folklore - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Folklore write by Joseph Jacobs. This book was released on 1916. Folklore available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.
