Medieval Comic Tales
During the middle ages, a common fund of comic tales circulated throughout Europe. They are of great cultural interest and considerable entertainment value, varying from humour to farce, from sophisticated literary parody to blunt crudeness. Writers such as Boccaccio, Chaucer, Ra… Celý popis ↓
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Medieval Comic Tales
During the middle ages, a common fund of comic tales circulated throughout Europe. They are of great cultural interest and considerable entertainment value, varying from humour to farce, from sophisticated literary parody to blunt crudeness. 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.
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. Piety jostles blasphemy, and sex and death are everywhere good for a joke. Scholars and students and the general reader alike will find the book accessible, useful and enjoyable.
Derek Brewer is Professor Emeritus of English Literature, University of Cambridge.
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