Gesta Romanorum: Entertaining Moral Stories

Swan, Charles (translator)
Publication Date 1905
Publisher George Routledge & Sons, Ltd.,
Binding Hardback
Condition Good copy
SKU 24195
Notes Cloth is very faded. Clean and sound.

Description

Hardback. “Entertaining stories invented by the monks as a fire-side recreation and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit whence the most celebrated of our own poets and others have extracted their plots.” Translated from the Latin with observations and notes by Rev Charles Swan. With a Preface by E. A. Baker. xx, 472pp. Blue cloth over bevelled boards. some of the tales are believed to have influence the works of later writers including Geoffrey Chaucer and Shakespeare.
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