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.
