When wine is consumed by the drunkard, it takes revenge on the drinker.
Faerie Folklore in Medieval Tales: An Introduction
February 24, 2013 By
Defining the term ‘faerie’ is not easy; some definitions include only specific, pre-Christian types of mythological creatures while other definitions include all of the spirits, angels and supernatural animals as well as the souls of the dead. I will take a middle road and include the spirits and the souls of the dead, since the dead and the faeries have an intimate connection in the folklore of the British Isles.
Vilification of Identity and the Exilic Narrative: The Illustrated Pied Piper Story
July 22, 2012 By
This paper situates The Pied Piper story as an exilic narrative, part of a larger repertoire of stories that follow the romantic quest-myth formula, a formula that conveys a totla metaphor for the “journey of life”.
The human presence in Robert Henryson’s Fables and William Caxton’s The History of Reynard the Fox
April 26, 2012 By
The principal method used is the gathering of specific instances of human presence in the two texts, and the categorising or coding of such instances, with the aid of the qualitative-data computer program QSR N6.
Folk narratives and legends as sources of widespread idioms: Toward a Lexicon of Common Figurative Units
March 18, 2012 By
On the one hand, stories (particularly fables) have been de- rived from already existing proverbs, from antiquity up to early modern times. On the other hand, a story in its summarised form can live on in a proverb or an idiom, even if the knowledge of this story has been forgotten for a long time.
“The Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in the Medieval Catalan fabliaux and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales”
January 11, 2011 By
“The Bad Behaviour of Friars and Women in the Medieval Catalan fabliaux and Chaucer’s Canterbury Tales” Méndez, Jerónimo (University of Valencia) BAD BEHAVIOUR Volume 3(1) (2010) Abstract Medieval Catalan narrative works or fabliaux contain many examples of bad behaviour on the part of priests and particularly friars from mendicants orders (usually Franciscans and Dominicans). They perpetrate many deceptions […]
Fables of King Arthur. Aelred of Rievaulx and Secular Pastimes
December 30, 2010 By
Fables of King Arthur. Aelred of Rievaulx and Secular Pastimes Tahkokallio, Jaakko (University of Helsinki) Mirator, Vol. 9:1 (2008) Abstract: This article examines the puzzling reference that Aelred of Rievaulx (c. 1110– 1167) made to King Arthur in his Speculum Caritatis, and argues that the reference is best interpreted as an allusion to orally circulated stories, not to […]
Of Lions and Foxes: Power and Rule in Hebrew Medieval Fables
December 2, 2010 By
Of Lions and Foxes: Power and Rule in Hebrew Medieval Fables Refael-Vivante, Revital (Bar-Ilan University, Israel) Revista Paz y Conflictos, número 2 año 2009 Abstract This article examines the relationship between the lion and the fox as an expression of the disposition of powers in the political-governmental arena and their relationship to the governed, in ancient […]
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