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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Moral tales"”.
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Performing piety: preachers and players in East Anglia, 1400-1520
… mutual use of thematic divisions and exempla (moral tales) evinces the reciprocal interaction of preacher and playwright. By focusing on these common rhetorical strategies, I stress the medieval play’s confluence with preaching’s form, rejecting the critical assumption that drama depends on the …
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John Gower and the Apollonius-tradition: including an anonymous Latin prose version, the Latin verse version of Godfrey of Viterbo, and John Gower’s English verse version of the Apollonius story (Confessio amantis, book eight), (together with translations of the Latin, notes, and a glossary of Gower’s Middle-English)
… the Gesta Romanorum, a medieval collection of ‘moral’ tales. Nevertheless, it needs to be borne in mind that the Historia had been translated into Old English as early as the eleventh century, and that a fragment of an early fourteenth century Middle English verse-version survives, as well as …
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The paradoxical exemplar : the image of Saladin in Don Juan Manuel's El conde lucanor
… that the fourteenth-century text was intended as moral instruction for a Christian audience. This report addresses this paradox by determining Saladin’s placement within Juan Manuel’s moral and spiritual philosophy through textual and comparative character analyses. The first section applies …