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From Aesop to Reynard: Beast Literature in Medieval Britain Mann, Jill (Emeritus Notre Dame Professor of English, University of Notre Dame; Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge)
From Aesop to Reynard: Beast Literature in Medieval Britain
Mann, Jill (Emeritus Notre Dame Professor of English, University of Notre Dame; Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge)
Bringing together material in English, French, and Latin,this book analyzes the shrewd perceptions about human life and language that emerge from beast narratives. Works discussed include the Speculum stultorum of Nigel of Longchamp, The Owl and the Nightingale, Chaucer's Parliament of Fowls, The Fox and the Wolf, and the Moral Fabillis of Robert Henryson.
400 pages, frontispiece
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | January 11, 2010 |
| Original release date | 2009 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199217687 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press |
| Pages | 394 |
| Dimensions | 163 × 242 × 29 mm · 725 g |
| Language | English |