Description
Medieval Comic Tales
Quick-thinking wives caught with their lovers turn the tables on their husbands; a trickster exposes the impiety of a priest; St Peter rescues all the souls in hell by gambling with loaded dice. When Chaucer and Boccaccio wrote The Canterbury Tales and the Decameron, they were drawing upon a great wealth of comic tales, ranging from crude anecdotes to mock courtly romances. Derek Brewer’s compendium, first published in 1973, brings together a selection that spans the length and breadth of Europe, some written in the vernacular, some in Latin. Organised by country of origin, they are translated in pithy prose that captures the flavour of the originals.
Features;
- Folio Society First Impression
- Publisher Folio Society, London; 2012
- Green Cloth Hardback, 255 pp
- Lino-cuts by Becca Thorne
- Size 230 x 160mm, 950g
Condition: Fine – Superb Unmarked Copy
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