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Ysengrimus
Jill Mann
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Hardcover. The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the persecution of the wolf Ysengrimus - who represents a hybrid abbot-bishop - by his archenemy Reynard the fox. The narrative's details are carefully crafted to make the wolf's punishment fit the abbot-bishop's crime. Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library. Num Pages: 576 pages. BIC Classification: 2ADL; DCF; DSBB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 140 x 202 x 33. Weight in Grams: 690.
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 but by a specific satiric aim: the wolf represents the hybrid ecclesiastic who is both abbot and bishop, whose greed is comparable to ... Read more
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 but by a specific satiric aim: the wolf represents the hybrid ecclesiastic who is both abbot and bishop, whose greed is comparable to ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Harvard University Press United States
Number of pages
576
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2013
Series
Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
Condition
New
Number of Pages
576
Place of Publication
Cambridge, Mass, United States
ISBN
9780674724822
SKU
V9780674724822
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About Jill Mann
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.
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