Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales. The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies.

A very well preserved copy, only a few edges of the dust jacket bumped and the spine light conditionally a little faded, free of annotations./ Ein sehr gut erhaltenes Exemplar, lediglich ein paar Kanten des Schutzumschlages besto�n und der Buchr�cken Licht bedingt etwas ausgeblichen, frei von Anstreichungen. - Jan M. Ziolkowski is the Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin at Harvard university. - Contents - Introduction i - Folktales in Medieval Latin Poetry - Between Sacred Legend and Folktale - A Whale of a Story about a Tenth-Century Fisherman - A Cautionary Tale - Little Red Riding Hood in the 1020s - True Lies and the Growth of Wonder - An Eleventh-Century �Little Claus and Great Claus� - The Wonder of The Turnip Tale (ca. 1200) - The Reorientation of The Donkey Tale (ca. 1200) - Conclusion - Sadly Never After 231 - APPENDIX - Man Swallowed by Fish (ATU 1889G) - The �Great Fish� in the Book of Jonah (Rheims-Douay) - B.Letaldus of Micy, About a Certain Fisherman Whom a - Whale Swallowed - C.Rudolph Erich Raspe, Baron Munchausen: Narrative of - His Marvellous Travels (1785), Chapter 8 - D.Hisperica famina B, Lines 157-217, and Letaldus�s Poem: - Source and Influence, or Parallels? - Truths and Lies - A.�The Wish-Goat� (�Wunschbock�; ATU 1960A) - B.�Lantfrid and Cobbo� (Carmina Cantabrigiensia 6) - C.�Modus Liebinc,� or �The Song to the Liebo Tune� {Carmina Cantabrigiensia 14; ATU 1362 �The Snow-Child�) - D.�Modus florum,� or �The Song to the Flowers Tune� (Carmina Cantabrigiensia 15; ATU 852 �The Lying Contest�) - E.�The False Prophet and Archbishop Heriger of Mainz: Otherworldly Voyages to Hell and Heaven, This-Worldly - Punishment� (Carmina Cantabrigiensia 24) - F.�The Priest in the Pit� (Carmina Cantabrigiensia 35) - G.�Little John� (Carmina Cantabrigiensia 42) - One-Ox: The Rich and the Poor Peasant (ATU 1535) - A.One-Ox {Unibos') - B.The Story of the Peasant Campriano {Storia di - Campriano contadino) - C.Straparola, �Father Scarpafico� {Le piacevoli notti, Night I, Fable 3) - D.Brothers Grimm, �About the Tailor Who Became Rich - Quickly� (BP 2:1-3) - E.Brothers Grimm, �The Little Farmer� (�Das B�rle� - F.�Kibitz� - G.Hans Christian Andersen, �Little Claus and Great Claus� - H.List of Folk-Literature Motifs in One-Ox - The Turnip Tale: Two Presents for the King (ATU 1689A) - A.The Turnip Tale [1] (Rapularius �frivola�) - B.The Turnip Tale (Rapularius �prodiga�) - C.Brothers Grimm, �The Turnip� (�Die R�be�) - The Donkey Tale - A.The Donkey Tale (Asinarius) - B.�The Story of Vikram�tyas Birth� - C.Brothers Grimm, �The Donkey� (�Das Eselein� ) - D.Straparola, �Bung Pig� {Lepiacevoli notti, Night 2, Fable 1) - E.Brothers Grimm, �Hans My Hedgehog� (�Hans Mein Igel� ). ISBN 9780472115686