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| #1892444 in Books | 2013-11-01 | Original language:Latin | PDF # 1 | 8.00 x5.00 x1.00l,1.50 | File type: PDF | 576 pages||0 of 1 people found the following review helpful.| Beautiful and highly polished translation and authoritative Latin text.|By ArielM|This is an excellent text, the first true rendition in English of an ofttimes ignored work of art. As well as containing current, though not exhaustive, bibliographical notes and a short introduction by Jill Mann. If one were to do research on the subject, as Jill Mann points out, the edition|About the Author|Jill Mann is a Fellow of the British Academy, an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College, Oxford, and a Life Fellow of Girton College, Cambridge.
The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. This long poem, composed in what is today Belgium, recounts the relentless persecution of the wolf Ysengrimus by his archenemy Reynard the fox, in the course of which the wolf is beaten to a pulp, flayed (twice), mutilated, and finally eaten alive by sixty-six pigs. The cartoon-like violence of the narrative is not motivated by a gratuitous delight in cruelty...
You can specify the type of files you want, for your device.Ysengrimus (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library) | From Harvard University Press.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
