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OverviewComposed between the twelfth and fourteenth centuries, these virtually unknown erotic and satiric poems lie at the root of the Western comic tradition. Passed down by the anticlerical middle classes of medieval France, The Fabliaux depicts priapic priests, randy wives, and their cuckolded husbands in tales that are shocking even by today's standards. Chaucer and Boccaccio borrowed heavily from these riotous tales, which were the wit of the common man rebelling against the aristocracy and Church in matters of food, money, and sex. Containing 69 poems with a parallel Old French text, The Fabliaux comes to life in a way that has never been done in nearly eight hundred years. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Nathaniel E. Dubin , R. Howard Bloch (Yale University)Publisher: WW Norton & Co Imprint: Liveright Publishing Corporation Dimensions: Width: 13.70cm , Height: 4.80cm , Length: 20.60cm Weight: 0.955kg ISBN: 9780871403575ISBN 10: 0871403579 Pages: 1024 Publication Date: 23 July 2013 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsReviewsLike Seamus Heaney's translation of Beowulf, ...Dubin reproduces the world and the feeling of the medieval tale...that travel joyfully from the Middle Ages to the present. --R. Howard Bloch, from the introduction to The Fabliaux Author InformationNathaniel E. Dubin is a professor emeritus of modern classical languages at the College of Saint Benedict and St. John's University in Minnesota. R. Howard Bloch is the Sterling Professor of French at Yale University. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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