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Medieval Cautionary Tales: An Anthology Paperback – February 21, 2003

by Peter Speed (Author)

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For the first time in a convenient English anthology, Peter Speed assembles 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. The "Oriental anthologies" include Calila and Dimna and Sendebar - Spanish versions of the frame stories of India, Persia, and the Arab world popularized in A Thousand and One Nights. The medieval exempla include The Book of Cats, The Book of Exempla A.B.C., the Mirror of the Laity, Juan Ruiz's Libro de Buen Amor, plus such later anthologies as The Seven Sages of Rome and the Life and Fables of Aesop. Part II offers a representative selection of sixteen French fabliaux, ranging from the sexual warfare of such well-known stories as The Goodwife of Orleans to the wily folk wisdom of The Peasant Who Argued His Way into Paradise. Part III presents English stories that set the stage for Elizabethan comedy, including a sampling of humorous ballads from the later Middle Ages, and a selection from A Hundred Mery Talys, a sixteenth-century joke book. 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. 1st Edition. Introduction, Bibliography, Illustrated.

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Paperback: 218 pages
Publisher: Italica Press (February 21, 2003)
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0934977283
ISBN-13: 978-0934977289
Product Dimensions: 5.5 x 0.6 x 8.5 inches
Shipping Weight: 11.4 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
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Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #3,718,165 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
- #2739 in Books > Literature & Fiction > Ancient & Medieval Literature > Ancient & Classical
- #6194 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Movements & Periods > Medieval
- #35571 in Books > Literature & Fiction > History & Criticism > Criticism & Theory

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