Its analysis of the poem's allusions to contemporary persons and events will also be of considerable interest to historians of twelfth-century Flanders. This book will not only interest medieval Latin specialists, but will make this major text accessible to those working on the related vernacular traditions. The corresponding branch of the French Roman de Renart (for which and its satirical sequels, Le Couronnement Renart, Renart le nouveau, and Renart le contrefait, see FRENCH LITERATURE) is one of the earliest and best of the great French cycle. Caxton maintained Margaret had been instrumental in encouraging his translation of this French romance. A full- length introduction offers an original account of the poem which shows how literary structure and historical dimensions are fused into an original satiric vision of compelling power. The woman is Margaret of York, the king of England’s sister and recently married duchess of Burgundy, Caxton’s patroness the volumes are the first English printed book, The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye. Jill Mann eases these difficulties by presenting an English translation alongside the Latin text, and accompanying it with a detailed commentary. Thought to have originated in Lorraine folklore, the tale of the trickster fox Reynard soon made its way into a literary cycle of allegorical Dutch, English, French and. It thus occupies a key position in the long and fertile tradition of medieval beast-literature, but it also claims attention as a masterpiece in its own right, the work of one of the most daring and original satirists of the Middle Ages.ĭespite its importance, the Ysengrimus has been comparatively neglected because of its linguistic difficulties. Appearing throughout a section relaying the crucification of Christ, these horn-tooting, cymbal-beating, bier-bearing creatures are attending the funeral of Reynard the Fox. The Ysengrimus is the first fully-fledged medieval beast-epic, and the poem in which Reynard the Fox makes his first appearance on the stage of world literature.
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