Ysengrimus

Ysengrimus

Author: Nivardus

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 1987

Total Pages: 600

ISBN-13: 9789004081031

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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

Author: Willem Pieter Gerritsen

Publisher: Boydell & Brewer

Published: 1998

Total Pages: 348

ISBN-13: 9780851157801

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"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.


The Birth of Modern Political Satire

The Birth of Modern Political Satire

Author: Meredith McNeill Hale

Publisher:

Published: 2020

Total Pages: 300

ISBN-13: 0198836260

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Meredith M. Hale presents the first chapter in the history of modern political satire, one that is critical to the media's emergence as the 'fourth estate'. Discussing themes relevant today, the study locates Dutch printmaker Romeyn de Hooghe (1645-1708) at the birth of modern political satire, and political satire at the heart of the modern media.


Reynard the Fox

Reynard the Fox

Author: Kenneth Varty

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2003-11

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9781571814227

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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

Author: Paul Wackers

Publisher: University of Wales Press

Published: 2023-02-15

Total Pages: 138

ISBN-13: 1786839903

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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

Author: Joseph Jacobs

Publisher:

Published: 1916

Total Pages: 494

ISBN-13:

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Most vols. for 1890- contain list of members of the Folk-lore Society.


Ecstasies

Ecstasies

Author: Carlo Ginzburg

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2021-03-01

Total Pages: 372

ISBN-13: 0226839443

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Weaving early accounts of witchcraft—trial records, ecclesiastical tracts, folklore, and popular iconography—into new and startling patterns, Carlo Ginzburg presents in Ecstasies compelling evidence of a hidden shamanistic culture that flourished across Europe and in England for thousands of years.


Medieval Latin

Medieval Latin

Author: K. P. Harrington

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 1997-11-10

Total Pages: 704

ISBN-13: 0226317137

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To help place the selections within their wider historical, social, and political contexts, Pucci has written extensive introductory essays for each of the new edition's five parts. Headnotes to individual selections have been recast as interpretive essays, and the original bibliographic paragraphs have been expanded. Reprinted from the best modern editions, the selections have been extensively glossed with grammatical notes geared toward students of classical Latin who may be reading medieval Latin for the first time.