Gesta Romanorum, meaning Deeds of the Romans, is a Latin collection of anecdotes and tales that was probably compiled about the end of the 13th century...
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formulae used in the Papal chancery until about the 11th century. Gesta Romanorum, a Latin collection of anecdotes and tales, was probably compiled about...
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Look up gesta, gestá, gęsta, or gęstą in Wiktionary, the free dictionary. Gesta may refer to: Gesta is the Latin word for "deeds" or "acts", and Latin...
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Stephen V, although his work was only published posthumously as the Gesta Romanorum Pontificum alongside the Liber Censuum of Pope Honorius III. Boso drew...
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Thodol is revealed to the tertön Karma Lingpa. c. 1300 Anonymous – Gesta Romanorum Taliesin – Book of Taliesin, Middle Welsh. Taliesin (c. 534 – c. 599)...
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Rustichello da Pisa – The Travels of Marco Polo c. 1300 Cursor Mundi Gesta Romanorum The Interlude of the Student and the Girl (Interludium de clerico et...
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popular in chivalric romance in general. Except for an exemplum in Gesta Romanorum, all such tales are highly developed romances, such as Sir Isumbras...
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Europe through the Disciplina Clericalis and is also to be found in the Gesta Romanorum. In it, the incident of the sunlight is pushed into a subordinate position...
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translation in 1596. The story of the three caskets can be found in Gesta Romanorum, a collection of tales probably compiled at the end of the 13th century...
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Grey Fairy Book (French fairy tale) "The Benevolent Goblin", from Gesta Romanorum (England) "The Goblins at the Bath House" (Estonia), from A Book of...
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However, both Shakespeare and Boccaccio probably came upon the tale in Gesta Romanorum.[citation needed] Marguerite de Navarre's Heptaméron is heavily based...
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foster-son. Accounts similar to this can be found in Perlesvaus, the Gesta Romanorum, and many other texts. In De Ortu Waluuani, the young Gawain, trained...
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printed in Nuremberg (1488), Bamberg (1491) and Augsburg (1494). The Gesta Romanorum, printed in Augsburg in 1473. Two accounts of St. Patrick's Purgatory...
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The broad outlines remain the same in the story that appears in the Gesta Romanorum a century later. A knight in debt makes a bargain with a serpent and...
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praedicabilibus by Étienne de Bourbon, in Li dis dou vrai aniel and in the Gesta Romanorum. The character of Nathan is to a large part modeled after Lessing’s...
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with moralized tales of Jereslaus' Wife and of Jonathas (both from Gesta Romanorum). The Series next turns to Learn to die, a theologically and psychologically...
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Dioneo tells is found in Alphonsus's Disciplina Clericalis and the Gesta Romanorum, both of which are written in Latin. Emilia is queen of the brigata...
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Puranas. From India, the story passed to the West and contributed to the Gesta Romanorum, among other texts. In the 17th century, Robert Burton picked up the...
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origins from two texts called Gesta Romanorum and Il Pecorone. The origin of the casket plot comes from the Gesta Romanorum. In contrast to the Merchant...
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the Three Kings of Cologne The Ship of Fools Mundus et Infans (1522) Gesta Romanorum Christmasse Carolles Richard Coer de Lyon Blayney, Peter W. M. (2013)...
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Die Bürgschaft, written in 1799 by Friedrich Schiller, based on the Gesta Romanorum version. (In this work, Damon is sentenced to death, not Pythias.)...
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appears in the Middle Ages: in Godfrey of Viterbo (12th century); in Gesta Romanorum, with the story of the king and the forester's son; and in Le dit de...
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Milesian tale is the source "of such medieval collections of tales as the Gesta Romanorum, the Decameron of Boccaccio, and the Heptameron of Marguerite of Navarre"...
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May 2018 – via Internet Archive. This is based on story 57 of the Gesta Romanorum, in which a carpenter explains that he needs eight pence every day:...
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Robert Grosseteste's Chasteu d'amour, the Cursor Mundi, the English Gesta Romanorum, and The Court of Sapience) develop it along the lines of a medieval...
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Book of Luke. As it appears in Legenda aurea (later retold in the Gesta Romanorum). An Orthodox Icon of Alexius of Rome, Russia, XIX century. A Greek...
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The book contains a tale similar to The Three Caskets found in the Gesta Romanorum and later in Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice. E. Rehatsek – The...
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Middle Ages, namely the 14th century anecdotes-collection known as the Gesta Romanorum. Each of Seneca's books was introduced by a preface, an approach he...
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with a "bagful of tricks". The interpretation in the 13th century Gesta Romanorum is very similar, making a distinction between "the simple men and women...
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declared him the winner, and so the new king. This is found in the Gesta Romanorum, a Latin work of the thirteenth century that is a "collection of moralized...
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