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From the rich store of medieval tales, Morris Bishop brings together a delightful collection of thirty-five stories. Some are romantic, some religious, some realistic, some even scurrilous. There are merry tales and moral tales, sagas, allegories, and fables. They vary widely in theme and their characters represent every class of medieval society. The tales in A Medieval Storybook vividly illustrate medieval life and thought. Above all they excel as stories, and demonstrate the high level attained by narrative art in the Middle Ages and the great gift the medieval writers had for creating lively and memorable characters. Some of the stories in the book were translated by Bishop; others were translated in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Line drawings by Alison Mason Kingsbury add considerably to the charm of this collection.

Tales, Medieval. --- Tales, Medieval --- Medieval tales --- Literature, Medieval.

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This collection in prose and verse of twenty-seven historical or legendary tales adapted from the Gesta Romanorum by Pierre Gringore (1475-1538), the French poet and playwright, is based on the two earliest printed versions in the Bibliotheque Nationale and includes the original engravings.

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French literature --- Narration (Rhetoric) --- Tales, Medieval --- Rhetoric, Medieval. --- History and criticism. --- History --- Rhetoric --- Discourse analysis, Narrative --- Narratees (Rhetoric)

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David Wright's new translation of The Canterbury Tales into modern verse--the first to appear in over thirty years--makes one of the greatest works of English literature accessible to all readers while preserving the wit and vivacity of Chaucer's original text.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, d. 1400. Canterbury tales. --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages in literature. --- Storytelling in literature. --- Tales, Medieval -- History and criticism. --- Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages --- English --- Languages & Literatures --- English Literature --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages, Christian --- Christian shrines --- Pilgrims and pilgrimages

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The Book of Reykjahólar, produced on the very eve of the Reformation, investigates what may be considered the last medieval legendary. The legendary's significance resides in its preserving in Icelandic translation a group of otherwise unattested medieval Low German saints' lives. Marianne E. Kalinke presents a literary analysis of the Reykjahólar legendary, demonstrating what kind of sources the translator used in his compilation and how he collected, combined, and adapted these texts to suit his Icelandic audience. The book also offers stylistic, thematic, and comparative analyses of the legends.A number of these Christian myths are apocryphal, some transmit folk tales and romances, such as the legend of the hairy anchorite (St John Chrysostom), the search for the highest king (St Christopher), the tale of the grateful lion (St Jerome), the tale of the dragon-slayer (St George), and the story of the holy sinner (Gregorius peccator). The legends belong to the vast corpus of German hagiography, yet the currency of these particular versions is documented today only in translation by virtue of their inclusion in this Icelandic legendary. The book opens with a survey of the development of German hagiography, goes on to a discussion of the religious and intellectual climate in early sixteenth-century Iceland, and then follows with a consideration of the legendary's Low German sources and its production by one of the wealthiest Icelanders of the time, Björn Thorleifsson of Reykjahólar.

Low German literature --- Old Norse literature --- Tales, Medieval --- Christian saints --- Christian hagiography --- History and criticism --- History --- Reykjahólabók --- Saints chrétiens --- Littérature bas-allemande --- Littérature vieux norroise --- Legends --- Légendes --- Histoire et critique --- Reykjahólabók --- History and criticism. --- Reykjahólabók. --- Book of Reykjahólar --- Low German literature - History and criticism --- Old Norse literature - History and criticism --- Tales, Medieval - History and criticism --- Christian saints - Legends - History and criticism --- Christian hagiography - History - To 1500