Comic Tales of the Middle Ages: An Anthology and Commentary

Three groups of comic narratives composed in Latin in the tenth, eleventh, and twelfth centuries are made accessible to both scholar and general reader alike in Mark Wolterbeek's collection and analysis. The volume contains the author's own translations into idiomatic English accompanied by the original Latin texts as well as extensive commentary. This exploration of an area of medieval comedy that has been largely ignored in both classic and recent scholarly works focuses on the ridicula, nu…