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Title The fables of Ulrich Bonerius (ca. 1350): masterwork of late Medieval didactic literature.
Creators Classen Albrecht.
Collection Электронные книги зарубежных издательств ; Общая коллекция
Subjects Didactic literature — History. ; EBSCO eBooks
Document type Other
File type PDF
Language English
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Record key on1202467877
Record create date 10/31/2020

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Serendipitously, at around the same time as Boccaccio published his famous Decameron (1350), the Swiss-German Dominican Ulrich Bonerius published his highly popular collection of fables, The Gemstone. Both authors pursued very similar goals, instructing their audiences about vices and virtues, Boccaccio by telling entertaining, often erotic tales, Bonerius by relating didactic tales, mostly based on animals as the active characters. This book provides the first English translation of all one hundred fables authored by Bonerius. Bonerius drew mostly from the classical Aesopian tradition, and hi.

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  • Table of Contents
  • List of Illustrations
  • Introduction
  • Translation
  • Colour Centrefold
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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