Gesta Romanorum
Subtitle: or, Entertaining moral stories; invented by the monks as a fireside recreation, and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit: whence the most celebrated of our own poets and others, from the earliest times, have extracted their plots.
By: Translated from the Latin, with preliminary observations and copious notes, by Charles Swan. Rev. and corr. by Wynnard Hooper.
Contributors: Swan, Charles, tr.; Hooper, Wynnard, ed.
Publisher: AMS Press
Published: 1970
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Subjects: Christian literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English.; Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Translations into English.; Tales, Medieval -- Translations into English.; Exempla -- Early works to 1800.
Genres: Translations into English.; Early works to 1800.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Reprint of the 1894 ed.