• Disciplina clericalis is a book by Petrus Alphonsi. Written in Latin at the beginning of the 12th century, it is a collection of 33 fables and tales and...
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    Jews), an imaginary conversation between a Jew and a Christian, and Disciplina Clericalis (A Training-school for the Clergy), in fact a collection of Eastern...
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    the focus of the story. This version reached Europe through the Disciplina Clericalis and is also to be found in the Gesta Romanorum. In it, the incident...
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    6th century AD. A later version from the 11th century is found in Disciplina Clericalis, which was written in Latin by Petrus Alphonsi, a Jewish convert...
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    — Rashi Wikisource has original text related to this article: Disciplina Clericalis/Tale 18 Rashi as the first literary reference may reflect the well-known...
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    story of counting sheep in the early twelfth-century Spanish work Disciplina clericalis. The section The King and his Story-teller (section 12) uses the...
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    he adapts fables and apologues from Aesop, from Pedro Alfonso's Disciplina clericalis, and from medieval bestiaries. All these heterogeneous materials...
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    the knightly style of life in Europe. Peter Alfonsi, in his work Disciplina Clericalis, listed chess among the seven skills that a good knight must acquire...
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  • was translated into Latin by Petrus Alphonsi and included in his Disciplina Clericalis. In the 14th century, a version of this tale also appears in the...
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  • already circulating in Europe in Latin works such as Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina clericalis. The work is part of the 'Sindibad' or 'Seven Sages' tradition;...
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    1477 and 1480. Scholars have identified one inspiration as the "Disciplina clericalis", a popular early 12th-century collection of verse (some of Arabian...
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    was translated into Latin by Petrus Alphonsi and included in his Disciplina Clericalis, alongside the "Sindibad" story cycle. In the 14th century, a version...
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  • new translation and informative introduction on Petrus Alphonsi's Disciplina clericalis substantially contributed to understanding Exempla literature in...
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    legendary incidents, with reminiscences of Aesop and Phaedrus, with the Disciplina clericalis, with Kalilah and Dimnah, with various Oriental traditions, and...
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    the godly man. A probable source for the tale is Petrus Alfonsi's Disciplina Clericalis, containing the same motifs, and William Caxton's Aesop's Fables—though...
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  • some 900 years ago in Petrus Alphonsi's collection of tales, the Disciplina Clericalis (which, according to E.L. Ranelagh, could be translated as "a course...
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    Jataka tales. In Europe, it appeared some 900 years ago in the Disciplina Clericalis of Petrus Alphonsi, and later in the Gesta Romanorum and in the...
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  • realizes it was shards, not coins. A medieval variant can be found in Disciplina Clericalis by Petrus Alfonsus. It's No.36 in the collection. A Cossack variant...
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  • Iudaeos, an imaginary conversation between a Christian and a Jew, and Disciplina Clericalis, a collection of Eastern sayings and fables in a frame-tale format...
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  • (1062–1110) was a Jewish physician, writer, astronomer, and polemicist. Disciplina Clericalis (1919). English translation from the fifteenth century Worcester...
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  • converted ex-Jew living in Muslim Spain and author of the seminal text Disciplina Clericalis, which, according to Metlitzki was the first collection of Oriental...
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  • calf), is reminiscent of a parable found in the early-12th-century Disciplina Clericalis by Petrus Alphonsi; it has also been suggested that it modified...
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