Download or read book Mediaeval Tales Classic Reprint written by Henry Morley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2015-09-27 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Mediaeval Tales Publication Of the songs and ballads of Spain began at Valencia in the year 151 1 with a collection by Fernando del Castillo, who on his title-page professed to collect pieces as well ancient as modern. From 1511 to 1573 there were nine editions Of this Cancionero. A later collection made between 1546 and I 550 - T he Cancionero de Romances - was made to consist wholly of ballads. A third edition Of it, in 1555, 15 the fullest and best known. The greatest collection followed in nine parts, published separately between 1593 and 1597, at Valencia, Burgos, Toledo, Alcala, and Madrid. This formed the great collection known as the Romancero General. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Mediaeval Tales written by Various and published by . This book was released on 2020-03-09 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mediaeval Tales: Edited With An Introduction By Henry Morley This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING!
Download or read book The Devil in a Nunnery written by Francis Oscar Mann and published by . This book was released on 2015-07-19 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Devil in a Nunnery: And Other Mediaeval Tales Buckingham is as pleasant a shire as a man shall see on a seven days' journey. Neither was it any less pleasant in the days of our Lord King Edward, the third of that name, he who fought and put the French to shameful discomfiture at Crecy and Poitiers and at many another hard-fought field. May God rest his soul, for he now sleeps in the great Church at Westminster. Buckinghamshire is full of smooth round hills and woodlands of hawthorn and beech, and it is a famous country for its brooks and shaded waterways running through the low hay meadows. Upon its hills feed a thousand sheep, scattered like the remnants of the spring snow, and it was from these that the merchants made themselves fat purses, sending the wool into Flanders in exchange for silver crowns. There were many strong castles there too, and rich abbeys, and the King's Highway ran through it from North to South, upon which the pilgrims went in crowds to worship at the Shrine of the Blessed Saint Alban. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Cloister and the Hearth Vol 1 of 2 written by Charles Reade and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-24 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cloister and the Hearth, Vol. 1 of 2: A Tale of the Middle Ages An introduction is an introduction. And two or three patients out of all those who came and were denied medicine, made Doctor Margaret their washerwoman. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Our Lady s Tumbler written by Isabel Butler and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-23 with total page 60 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Our Lady's Tumbler: A Tale of Mediaeval France Our lady's tumbler is one of a large body of stories much beloved in Mediaeval France that turn upon some miracle per formed by the Virgin, - a type of story of which the most familiar example in English is the tale told by Chaucer's prioress. Ear ly in the thirteenth century sev eral collections of these miracles were compiled, the two most important being those of Gau tier de Coinci, prior of vic-sur Aisne, and of Jean le Marchant, a priest of Chatres. Though most of the legends are interest ing to us to-day mainly for the curious insight they give us into the religious sentiment of thetime, there are yet not a few that we like for their own sakes, for their naivete, sincerity, and pathos. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Cloister and the Hearth Vol 3 of 4 written by Charles Reade and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-02-02 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cloister and the Hearth, Vol. 3 of 4: A Tale of the Middle Ages Good Martin 1 forgive me that I spake shrewishly to thee.' Even while they were talking came a man for advice. Margaret told him the mayor had interfered, and forbidden her to sell drugs. But, ' said she, I will gladly iron and starch your linen for you, and I will come and fetch it from your house.' About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Cloister and the Hearth Vol 2 of 4 written by Charles Reade and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-11 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Cloister and the Hearth, Vol. 2 of 4: A Tale of the Middle Ages The boat people were all safe on the late con cave now convex craft. Herr Turnip-face, the Inverter of things, ' being in the middle All this fracas seemed not to have essentially de ranged his habits. At least he was greeting when he shot our friends into the Rhine, and greeting when they got out again. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Barbarian and Noble Classic Reprint written by Marion Florence Lansing and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-07 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Barbarian and Noble History has no period which makes a more vivid appeal to the young reader than the thousand years which we call the Middle Ages. The mediaeval world is just such a world as he would like to live in, where knights ride off on cru sades, and kings wander out from their palaces in disguise, where heroes sail away to explore unknown seas, and gay cavaliers sally forth to tournament and joust. It requires no effort to interest boys and girls in this part of history. They turn to it with the enthusiasm with which they seize fairy tales and legends of chivalry and romance, and find in its reality a satisfying response to the desire for a true story. The child's interest being assured, the problem is to make this interest of use in the process of his education. The purpose of this series is to relate this fascinating and heroic past to the present by telling the stories from the point of view of the contribution of the Middle Ages to the world of to-day. The heroes gain a new importance and the stories a new meaning by this treatment. Who the mediaeval builders were may be seen by the titles of the following books which make up the series Bar barian and Noble, Patriots and Tyrants, Sea Kings and Explorers, Kings and Common Folk, Cavalier and Courtier, Craftsman and Artist. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Medieval Narrative written by Margaret Schlauch and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 480 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Medieval Narrative: A Book of Translations This book has grown out of the needs of an undergraduate course in medieval literature. Any such course, even the most elementary, must be comparative in its nature, because of the intricate borrowing and lending of narrative material from one country to another during the Middle Ages. Any student who would work in this field must have no inconsiderable linguistic equipment; but this requirement is, unfortunately, an insuper able barrier in the case of most American undergraduates. One would like to assume, for instance, that all of them can read at least modern French and German by their junior and senior years, but many of them fail to meet even this modest qualifica tion, to say nothing of Old French and Middle High German. This is the more unfortunate smce the subject matter of me dieval narrative - the Nibelung cycle, the Grail stories, the Tris tan legend, and all the lore of Arthurian romances - appeals strongly to undergraduate classes, as anyone who has taught this material knows; perhaps because they come to it with a certain. Freshness, and find it unhackneyed in comparison with the more familiar classical legends. But enthusiasm is not enough when one is dealing with texts in Old French, Old Icelandic, Middle Dutch, and Medieval Latin; and in the face of the linguistic deficiency of college students a teacher is forced to rely on translations for class use. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Medieval Garland Classic Reprint written by Agnes Mary Frances Robinson and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-10-17 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Medieval Garland Who would ever have thought that idiot Gino knew how to handle a knife so well! But all the same I deem he will not begin that game again! What a fine crack I gave him in the ribs! Hi! Beast! Hey! Beast! Thou wouldst escape, wouldst thou?' and he dealt the elder of the two goats a Sharp little blow on the ears it uttered a faint cry and became silent. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book The Red Book of Appin written by Ethan Allen Hitchcock and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-05-16 with total page 306 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Red Book of Appin: A Story of the Middle Ages; With Other Hermetic Stories, and Allegorical Fairy Tales Story OF the red book, Explanatory Notes, the six swans, Interpretation Of, ' App, the white dove, Interpretation Of, App., dummling and the toad, Interpretation of, App., the Fox's brush, Interpretation Of, A'pp., appendix (preface), the flail from the clouds, the hedgehog and the hare, the story OF faithful john, Interpretation Of, the goose-girl AT the well with Notes. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Belt and Spur written by Emma Louisa Seeley and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-04 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Belt and Spur: Stories of the Knights of the Middle Ages From the Old Chronicles The following stories of battles and tournaments have been drawn from the pages of the Old chroui cles, ' and are told as the chronicler tells them; sometimes in an abridged and condensed form, but as far as possible, in the spirit and style of the original. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Under the Witches Moon written by Nathan Gallizier and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-03 with total page 494 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Under the Witches' Moon: A Romantic Tale of Mediaeval Rome The purple dusk began to weave its phantom veil over the ancient capital of the Caesars and a round blood-red moon was climbing slowly above the misty crests of the Alban Hills, draining the sky of its crimson sunset hues. The silvery chimes of the Angelus, pealing from churches and convents, from Santa Maria in Trastevere to Santa Maria of the Aventine, began to sing their message of peace into the heart of nature and of man. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Later Medieval English Prose Classic Reprint written by William Matthews and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-10-08 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Later Medieval English Prose Short-story writers Anon. Trans, Gesta Romanorum, selection Anon. Trans, An Alphabet of Tales, selections Anon., Jacob's Well, selections Anon. Trans, Geoffrey de la T our-landry's The Book of the Knight of tour-landry, selection William Caxton, trans, Reynard the Fox, selection. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book A Selection Latin Stories from Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries written by Thomas Wright and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2017-11-19 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Selection Latin Stories, From Manuscripts of the Thirteenth and Fourteenth Centuries: A Contribution to the History of Fiction During the Middle Ages This latter circumstance has determined the Editor, also, to preface these tales by only a brief introduction; and he may perhaps be induced! To give in another form, a sketch of the history of the transmission of stories and fables from one people to another in the middle ages. A very large portion of our medieval stories are derived from the East, of which many examples will befound in the present volume. Some are derived from classic writers, though often disguised by the Gothic garb in which they have been clothed during the transmission. The two most remark able instances of direct transmission from the East are the Collection by Peter Alfonsi, compiled in Latin under the title of Disciplina Clericalis, and that which was so long and widely popular under the title of the Seven Sages. N o manuscripts are of more frequent occurrence than collections of Tales like those printed in the present volume; and we owe their preservation in this form to a custom which drew upon the monks the ridicule of the early reformers. The preachers of the thirteenth, fourteenth, and fif teenth centuries, attempted to illustrate their texts, and to inculcate their doctrines, by fables and stories, which they moralized generally by attaching to them mystical significations. These illustrations they collected from every source which presented itself, the more popular the better, be cause they more easily attracted the attention of people accustomed to hear them. Sometimes they moralized the jests and satirical anecdotes current among the people - sometimes they adopted the fabliaux and metrical pieces of the jongleurs, or minstrels - and not unfrequently they abridged the plots of more extensive romances. Each preacher made collections for his own use - heset down in Latin the stories which he gathered from the mouths of his acquaintance, selected from the collections which had already been made by others, or turned into Latin, tales which he found in a different dress. Hence it happens that we seldom find two manuscript collections which agree with each other, and that in different manuscripts we find the same tale told in a variety of shapes. I am inclined to think that the period at which these collections began to be made was the earlier part of the thirteenth century, and that to that century we owe the compilation in Latin of most of these tales, though the greater number of manuscripts may be ascribed to the fourteenth. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Download or read book Medieval Tales and Stories written by Stanley Appelbaum and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2000-01-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wide-ranging stories offer glimpse into witchcraft, magic, Crusaders, astrology, alchemy, pacts with the Devil, chivalry, trial by torture, church councils, mercantile life, other elements of Middle Ages.
Download or read book Popular Romances of the Middle Ages Classic Reprint written by George W. Cox and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-01-22 with total page 528 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Popular Romances of the Middle Ages These two conditions have, it is hoped, been strictly observed in the versions here given of these romances. While special care has been taken to guard against the introduction even of phrases not in harmony with the original narratives, not less pains have been bestowed on the task of preserving all that is essential in the narrative; and thus it may perhaps be safely said that the readers of this volume will obtain from it some adequate know ledge of the tales without having their attention and their patience overtaxed by a multiplicity of superfluous and therefore irksome details. Of the present version of the Arthur story, the most celebrated perhaps of all, it may be enough to say that it relates many important episodes which have been omitted in the versions recently published, while no attempt has been made to impart to the romance a more historical complexion than that which it received at the hands of Caxton's friend. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
