The Fabliaux
10 best books like The Fabliaux (Nathaniel E. Dubin): The Heptameron, Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales, Athalie, The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Journey to the Promised Land, Aucassin et Nicolette, Arab Folktales, The Journey Through Wales & The Description of Wales, Leucippe and Clitophon, The Gothic Image: Religious Art in France of the Thirteenth Century, The Adventures of Amir Hamza
| Author | Marguerite de Navarre |
In the early 1500s five men and five women find themselves trapped by floods and compelled to take refuge in an abbey high in the Pyrenees. When told they must wait days for a bridge to be repaired, they are inspired - by recalling Boccaccio's Decameron - to pass the time in a cultured manner by each telling...
Medieval Russia's Epics, Chronicles, and Tales
| Author | Serge A. Zenkovsky |
| ISBN | 0452010861 |
First published in 1963, this unique and pioneering anthology has been continuously used as an invaluable text in Russian studies. Containing over sixty selections from the finest of Russia's medieval authors, much of the material published in this anthology has never before been available in English....
| Author | Jean Racine |
| ISBN | 2253062286 |
There is an alternate cover edition here.
Miraculeusement sauvé du massacre où les siens ont péri, le jeune Joas est secrètement recueilli puis élevé par le grand prêtre Joad et par sa femme. Pour qu’il accède au trône de Juda qui lui était promis, il lui faut échapper à l’infidèle...
The Voyage of Saint Brendan: Journey to the Promised Land
| Author | Unknown |
| ISBN | 0851055044 |
A translation from the Latin of one of the most famous and enduring stories of western Christendom, the Navigatio Sancti Brendani Abbatis, written in Ireland perhaps as early as the year 800. While the routes of St. Brendan's journeys remain a subject of controversy, the tale itself is of great interest—a...
| Author | Anonymous |
| ISBN | 2080720430 |
Aucassin et Nicolette is a medieval French chantefable, or combination of prose and verse (literally, a "sung story"), similar to a prosimetrum. It is the only known chantefable from what was once a very popular literary tradition, and it is from this work the term chantefable was coined in its concluding...
| Author | Inea Bushnaq |
| ISBN | 0394751795 |
While containing a broad sampling of folktales from the Arab people, there are a few problems that consistently bothered me about this book. The author, in her commentary, claims that "the true Arab is the desert nomad," an idea which folklorist Dwight Reynolds has said is culturally inaccurate and...
| Author | Gerald of Wales |
| ISBN | 0140443398 |
Gerald of Wales was one of the most dynamic and colorful churchmen of the 12th century. His JOURNEY describes a mission to Wales undertaken in 1188 by Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury, with Gerald as his companion. THE DESCRIPTION provides a picture of the day-to-day existence of ordinary Welshmen...
| Author | Achilles Tatius |
| ISBN | 0192804278 |
Achilles Tatius' Leucippe and Clitophon is the most bizarre and risque of the five "Greek novels" of idealized love between boy and girl that survive from the time of the Roman empire. Stretching the capacity of the genre to its limits, Achilles' narrative covers adultery, violence, disembowelment,...
| Author | Émile Mâle |
| ISBN | 0064300323 |
Emile Male's book aids understanding of medieval art and medieval symbolism, and of the vision of the world which presided over the building of the French cathedrals. It looks at French religious art in the Middle Ages, its forms, and especially the Eastern sources of sculptural iconography used in...
| Author | Ghalib Lakhnavi |
| ISBN | 0679643540 |
In the tradition of such beloved classics as "The Thousand and One Nights" and the Persian" Shahnameh," here is the first unabridged English translation of a major Indo-Persian epic, "The Adventures of Amir Hamza" (Dastan-e Amir Hamza)—a panoramic tale of magic and passion, and a classic hero's...
| Author | Matteo Maria Boiardo |
| ISBN | 1932559019 |
Like Ariosto's Orlando Furioso and Tasso's Jerusalem Delivered, Boiardo's chivalric stories of lords and ladies first entertained the culturally innovative court of Ferrara in the Italian Renaissance. Inventive, humorous, inexhaustible, the story recounts Orlando's love-stricken pursuit...
| Author | A.C. Graham |
| ISBN | 1590172574 |
Classical Chinese poetry reached its pinnacle during the T'ang Dynasty (618-907 A.D.), and the poets of the late T'ang-a period of growing political turmoil and violence-are especially notable for combining strking formal inovation with raw emotional intensity. A. C. Graham’s slim but indispensable...
| Author | Gretchen Schultz |
| ISBN | 0691161658 |
The wolf is tricked by Red Riding Hood into strangling her grandmother and is subsequently arrested. Sleeping Beauty and Cinderella do not live happily ever after. And the fairies are saucy, angry, and capricious. Fairy Tales for the Disillusioned collects thirty-six tales, many newly translated,...
| Author | Propertius |
| ISBN | 0192835734 |
Toujours dans la veine des poètes latins, après un Catulle tout à la fois impétueux et tendre, après un Tibulle irénique et volage, voici Properce, passionnément fidèle et attaché à sa Cynthie, et terriblement voluptueux. C'est sans doute de ces trois auteurs le plus vivant, le...
| Author | Giovanni Boccaccio |
| ISBN | 0226062767 |
A milestone in feminist literature, this marvelous European romance, narrated by a woman, is considered the first psychological novel in a modern language and a precursor of stream-of-consciousness fiction. Written by Giovanni Boccaccio between 1343 and 1345, The Elegy has never before been available...
| Author | Pierre Louÿs |
| ISBN | 2070385329 |
Alexandrie, Ier siècle avant Jésus-Christ : un sculpteur en vogue, amant de la reine, tombe amoureux de la belle courtisane Chrysis, qui exige de lui trois gages. Il commet trois crimes. Puis il rêve que son désir est assouvi. Il exige alors de Chrysis qu'elle aille déposer les trois objets sur...
| Author | Vivant Denon |
| ISBN | 1590173260 |
A Bilingual New York Review Books Original
Vivant Denon's No Tomorrow is one of the masterpieces of eighteenth-century French libertine literature, a book to set beside Choderlos de Laclos' Les Liaisons dangereuses, except that where Laclos' icy novel tells of hellish depravity, Denon's ravishing...
| Author | Guillaume Apollinaire |
| ISBN | 0520242122 |
A fully annotated, bilingual edition, Calligrammes is a key work not only in Apollinaire's own development but in the evolution of modern French poetry. Apollinaire--Roman by birth, Polish by name (Wilhelm-Apollinaris de Kostrowitski), Parisian by choice--died at thirty-eight in 1918. Nevertheless,...
| Author | William Rees |
| ISBN | 0140423850 |
Non obtrusive prose translations and a fantastic selection. If you need a starting point for modern French poetry this is the place to go. Not only do you have a good selection from all of the most known poets but also a gateway into lesser known but very good poetry. Without this volume I would never have...
| Author | Johann Wolfgang von Goethe |
This bilingual edition of Goethe's erotic poems contains the Roman Elegies (1789), The Diary (1810), and a selection from the Venetian Epigrams of 1790.
Editorial censorship has long obscured the true form and content of the Elegies, which were inspired by Goethe's sexual liberation in...
Sexuality in Medieval Europe: Doing Unto Others
| Author | Ruth Mazo Karras |
| ISBN | 0415289637 |
Combining research with original interpretations, and quoting sources from medieval Christian Europe, Jewish medieval culture and the Islamic world, this highly readable study provides an overview of medieval culture and how it developed sexual identities that were quite different from the...
Les Filles du feu - Les Chimères
| Author | Gérard de Nerval |
| ISBN | 2080707825 |
Edition enrichie (Introduction, notes, dossier sur l'oeuvre, chronologie et bibliographie)Meme en dehors de "Sylvie," il y a chez Nerval une infusion omnipresente du souvenir, une chanson du temps passe qui s'envole et qui se devide a partir des rappels meme les plus tenus de naguere comme de jadis,...
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| Author | Aimé Césaire |
| ISBN | 2020486245 |
Le temps de l'indépendance du Congo est arrivé. Patrice Lumumba, homme politique et poète visionnaire, va tenter de rendre à son peuple une liberté depuis longtemps perdue. Mais la jalousie, la corruption et la quête du pouvoir sont des murailles difficiles à franchir. À travers le destin...
