Comic Tales of the Middle Ages: An Anthology and Commentary
- Author / Editor
- Wolterbeek, Marc.
Comic Tales of the Middle Ages: An Anthology and Commentary
- Published
- New York, Westport, Conn., and London: Greenwood Press, 1991.
- Physical Description
- xxvi, 243 pp.
- Series
- Contributions to the Study of World Literature, no. 39.
- Description
- Defines and traces the development of three genres of early medieval Latin comic literature: ridicula ("funny stories in rhythmic verse"), nugae ("trifles" of learned poets), and satyrae (vevality satires). Such tales, especially ridicula, anticipate venacular fabliaux. The appendix anthologizes fourteen examples, each translated.
- Chaucer Subjects
- Background and General Criticism.
- Canterbury Tales--General.