Solomon and Marcolf - Vernacular Traditions

Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions offers an array of relevant texts, in English for the first time, that display the mysteries of the ¿rogue biography¿ that is Solomon and Marcolf. The astonishingly varied and fascinating pieces have been translated from medieval and early modern French, Russian, German, Icelandic, Danish, and Italian.

About the author

Jan M. Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University.

Summary

Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions offers an array of relevant texts, in English for the first time, that display the mysteries of the “rogue biography” that is Solomon and Marcolf. The astonishingly varied and fascinating pieces have been translated from medieval and early modern French, Russian, German, Icelandic, Danish, and Italian.

Product details

• Authors: Jan M. Ziolkowski
• Assisted by: Jan M. Ziolkowski (Editor)
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.2023
• EAN: 9780674271883
• ISBN: 978-0-674-27188-3
• No. of pages: 544
• Assisted by: Edward Sanger, Michael B. Sullivan
• Series: Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies; Non-fiction book > Dictionaries, reference works > Foreign-language dictionaries; Latin, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / European / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS / Medieval, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval