Brian Murdoch provides an alternative view of the Middle Ages, showing the anarchy and decadence which lurked below the surface of a devout and conformist society. The grinning gargoyle, which mocked the solemnity of Gothic cathedrals, symbolises the violence, depravity and irreverence inherent in man which could not be suppressed by the church. Texts translated from the prose, chronicles and verse of the period, such as the Trial of Gilles de Rais, Boccaccio's Decameron, I Have a Gentil Cok,A Black Mass and Metrical Verses on the Subject of his Prick, reveal the wilder aspects of medieval man. Brian Murdoch has assembled and translated texts from Medieval Latin, Old French, Italian, Scots Gaelic, Cornish, Old and Middle English, Old Irish and Welsh which will redefine the Middle Ages for the modern reader.
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Brian Murdoch is Professor of German at the University of Stirling and a specialist on medieval and renaissance literature.
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Soft cover. Etat : Very Good. Claudia Andrei; (illustrateur). First Printing - First Thus. 259 pp. Trade paperback format. Light wear on the corners with a flat uncreased spine; no interior markings. Cover art by Claudia Andrei. This collection contains: Gregory the Great on Genesis; Adam and Eve; Unoriginal Sins from Confessional Handbooks; The Ruin; Attila from Waltharius; Fredegonda the Concubine from Gregory of Tours History of the Franks; Charlemagne from Einhard's Life of Charlemange; Charlemange's Grandchildren from Nithard's Histories; English Anarchy 1137 from the Anglo Saxon Chronicle; Richard I from various Medieval Chronicles; Edward II from various Medieval Chronicles; Pedro the Cruel from Froissart's Chronicles; Gilles de Rais from the trial documents; Wernher - Helmbrecht; The Archpoet from the Confession; Cecco Agniolieri - Two Sonnets; The Destruction of the World from Jacob Ruf's Adam and Eve; The Snow Baby; Marie de France - King Equitan; Giovanni Boccaccio from the Decameron; The Monk and the Wee Goose; I Have a Gentil Cok; Dafydd ap Gwilym - Metrical Verses on the Subject of his Prick; Gluttony from the Worcester Sermon II; A Drinking Song from the Carmina Burana; Table Manners from The Book of Polite Behaviour; How the Good Wife Taught Her Daughter; Modern Fashions from Brant's Ship of Fools; Cornish Behaviour from Andrew Boorde's Introduction to the First Boke of Knowledge; Black Magic from The Corrector; Rutebeuf - Theophilus; A Black Mass from The Life of St Meriasek; A Drinker's Mass; Thomas Murner from The Guild of Fools; Thomas Murner from The Great Lutheran Fool; Laments for A Misspent Youth; Priapeia; Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy - Poem; and The Lady of Beare Grown Old. Size: 8vo. Book. N° de réf. du vendeur 228778
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Paperback. Etat : new. Paperback. Brian Murdoch provides an alternative view of the Middle Ages, showing the anarchy and decadence which lurked below the surface of a devout and conformist society. The grinning gargoyle, which mocked the solemnity of Gothic cathedrals, symbolises the violence, depravity and irreverence inherent in man which could not be suppressed by the church. Brian Murdoch provides an alternative view of the Middle Ages, showing the anarchy and decadence which lurked below the surface of a devout and conformist society. The grinning gargoyle, which mocked the solemnity of Gothic cathedrals, symbolises the violence, depravity and irreverence inherent in man which could not be suppressed by the church. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. N° de réf. du vendeur 9781873982020
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