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Sto caricando le informazioni... Distaff Gospels: A First Modern English Edition of Les Evangiles Des Quenouillesdi Madeleine. Jeay
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Outstanding dual language edition of this unique work, which purports to be the testimonies or "gospels" of six old women gathered nightly to spin and relate the beliefs they hold based on their life experience. The content includes hundreds of folk-beliefs, cures, prophetic beliefs regarding children's fates, much of it related in a bawdy manner. The translated text is mainly from the Paris manuscript, with insights from the Chantilly MS. It is also found in six incanabula, five 16th century editions and translations into Engish, Dutch, Occitan, and German. The earliest translation was published in English in 1510 by Wynkyn de Worde. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
The Distaff Gospels(Les Évangiles des Quenouilles), a fascinating fifteenth-century collection of more than 250 popular beliefs, constitutes a kind of encyclopedia of late medieval women's wisdom. The women's beliefs and experiences are recounted within the narrative frame of traditional gatherings where women meet with their spindles and distaffs to spin. They share advice on such important matters as how to control errant husbands, how to predict the gender of future offspring, how to cure common diseases, and ways to deal with evil spirits, providing a rare look into the intimate lives of medieval peasant women. This edition includes a facing-page translation (the first in English since 1510) of the two Old French manuscripts of the text. The critical introduction discusses the literary context, textual history, and cultural significance of The Distaff Gospels, while the rich selection of appendices includes translations of the names of the women storytellers and excerpts from works by Giovanni Boccaccio, Jean de Meun, François Villon, and Christine de Pizan. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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