Ysengrimus Mann Jill
Ysengrimus Mann Jill The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. The cartoon-like violence of the narrative is not motivated by a…
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Ysengrimus Mann Jill
The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. The cartoon-like violence of the narrative is not motivated by a gratuitous delight in cruelty but by a specific satiric aim: the wolf represents the hybrid ecclesiastic who is both abbot and bishop, whose greed is comparable to the wolf's. This long poem, composed in what is today Belgium, recounts the relentless persecution of the wolf Ysengrimus by his archenemy Reynard the fox, in the course of which the wolf is beaten to a pulp, flayed (twice), mutilated, and finally eaten alive by sixty-six pigs.
In the elaborate rhetorical fantasies that accompany the narrative, the wolf's tortures are The details of the narrative are carefully crafted to make the wolf's punishment fit the abbot-bishop's crime, creating a topsy-turvy world in which the predator becomes prey.