Tales, Medieval
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Broader term:Narrower terms:- Tales, Medieval -- Adaptations
- Tales, Medieval -- History and criticism
- Tales, Medieval -- Translations into English
- Medieval tales
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Master Walter Map's Book, De Nugis Curialium (Courtier's Trifles) (London: Chatto and Windus, 1924), by Walter Map, trans. by Frederick Tupper and Marbury Blade Ogle- Master Walter Map's Book, De Nugis Curialium (Courtier's Trifles) (New York: Macmillan, 1924), by Walter Map, trans. by Frederick Tupper and Marbury Blade Ogle (page images at HathiTrust)
- Walter Map: De Nugis Curialium (Anecdota Oxoniensa Mediaeval and Modern Series #14; text in Latin and commentary in English; 1914), by Walter Map, ed. by M. R. James (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Boke of the Tales of Canterburie (title taken from text on the first page; London: R. Pynson, 1491), by Geoffrey Chaucer (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1867), by S. Baring-Gould (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Curious Myths of the Middle Ages (Boston: Roberts Bros., 1882), by S. Baring-Gould
- Legends of the Middle Ages, Narrated With Special Reference to Literature and Art (1896), by H. A. Guerber (Gutenberg text)
- Old French Romances, Done Into English, trans. by William Morris, contrib. by Joseph Jacobs (Gutenberg text)
- The Tale of Beryn; With a Prologue of the Merry Adventure of the Pardoner With a Tapster at Canterbury (EETS extra series #105; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by K. Paul, Trench, Trübner and Co., and by H. Frowde, 1909), ed. by Frederick James Furnivall and W. G. Boswell-Stone, contrib. by W. A. Clouston
- The Four Ancient Books of Wales, Containing the Cymric Poems attributed to the Bards of the Sixth Century, ed. by W. F. Skene (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Canterbury Tales: Fifteenth-Century Continuations and Additions, ed. by John M. Bowers (HTML at metseditions.org)
- The Earthly Paradise (from Boston and London editions, 1868-1870), by William Morris
- The Fates of the Princes of Dyfed, by Kenneth Morris, illust. by Reginald Machell (illustrated HTML at theosociety.org)
- Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Laura Kendrick (HTML at UC Press)
- A Distinction of Stories: The Medieval Unity of Chaucer's Fair Chain of Narratives for Canterbury (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, c1981), by Judson Boyce Allen and Theresa Anne Moritz
- Species, Phantasms, and Images: Vision and Medieval Psychology in The Canterbury Tales (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2001), by Carolyn P. Collette (page images at HathiTrust)
- Chaucer's Dante: Allegory and Epic Theater in The Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1991), by Richard Neuse (HTML at UC Press)
- Manekine; John and Blonde; and "Foolish Generosity" (University Park, PA: Pennsylvania State University Press, c2010), by Philippe de Remi Beaumanoir, trans. by Barbara Nelson Sargent-Baur (PDF at PSU; pages may be unusually ordered)
- The Early English Versions of the Gesta Romanorum (EETS extra series #33; London: Pub. for the Early English Text Society by N. Trübner and Co., 1879), ed. by Sidney J. H. Herrtage, contrib. by Frederic Madden
- Gesta Romanorum: or, Entertaining Stories Invented by the Monks as a Fire-Side Recreation and Commonly Applied in Their Discourses From the Pulpit (2 volumes; London: J.C. Hotten, ca. 1871), ed. by Thomas Wright, trans. by Charles Swan
- A Record of Auncient Histories, Entituled in Latin Gesta Romanorum: Discoursing Upon Sundry Examples for the Advancement of Vertue, and the Abandoning of Vice, No Lesse Pleasant in Reading, Then Profitable in Practise (London: T. Est, 1595), ed. by Richard Robinson (HTML at EEBO TCP)
- The Cattle-Raid of Cualnge (London: David Nutt, 1904), trans. by L. Winifred Faraday (HTML with commentary at sacred-texts.com)
Items below (if any) are from related and broader terms.
Filed under: Tales- Folk-Tales From Many Lands (c1939), by Rose Fyleman (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- Folk-Lore and Fable: Aesop, Grimm, Andersen (Harvard Classics v17; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Charles William Eliot and William Allan Neilson, contrib. by Aesop, Wilhelm Grimm, Jacob Grimm, and H. C. Andersen
- Oriental Tales, Collected From an Arabian Manuscript, in the Library of the King of France (2 volumes, translated from the Comte de Caylus's Contes Orientaux; London: Printed for T. Trye et al., 1745), by Anne Claude Philippe Caylus (page images at HathiTrust)
- Tales of All Nations: or, Popular Legends and Romances (bound collection of about 48 issues; London: W. Strange, ca. 1837) (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Book of Noodles: Stories of Simpletons, or, Fools and Their Follies (London: E. Stock, 1888), by W. A. Clouston
- Zanzibar Tales, Told by Natives of the East Coast of Africa (Chicago: A. C. McClurg and Co., 1901), trans. by George W. Bateman, illust. by Walter Bobbett (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Where Animals Talk: West African Folk Lore Tales (Boston: R. G. Badger, c1912), by Robert Hamill Nassau
- Folk-Tales of Angola: Fifty Tales, With Ki-Mbundu Text, Literal English Translation, Introduction, and Notes (Boston and New York: Pub. for the American Folk-Lore Society by Houghton, Mifflin and Co.; et al, 1894), ed. by Héli Chatelain
- The Alif Laila: or, Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Commonly Known as "The Arabian Nights' Entertainments" (4 volumes in Arabic; Kolkata: W. Thacker and Co.; London, W. H. Allen and Co., 1839-1842), ed. by W. H. Macnaghten (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Arabian Nights (1-volume version), trans. by Richard Francis Burton (HTML at dasburo.com)
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night (Burton Club Shammar edition, with Supplemental Nights; 16 volumes in 17), trans. by Richard Francis Burton (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and a Night: A Plain and Literal Translation of the Arabian Nights Entertainments (full 16-volume version; includes Supplemental Nights), trans. by Richard Francis Burton (frame-dependent HTML at wollamshram.ca)
- The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Now First Done Completely into English Prose and Verse, From the Original Arabic (9 volumes), ed. by John Payne (HTML at wollamshram.ca)
- Tales From the Arabic of the Breslau and Calcutta (1814-18) Editions of The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Not Occurring in the Other Printed Texts of the Work (Delhi edition, 1901), ed. by John Payne
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments, by Andrew Lang
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments, by Andrew Lang, illust. by H. J. Ford (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- The Arabian Nights Entertainments ("Aldine" edition; London: Pickering and Chatto, 1890), ed. by Jonathan Scott
- The Arabian Nights: Their Best-Known Tales (New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1909), ed. by Kate Douglas Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, illust. by Maxfield Parrish
- Stories From The Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights' Entertainments) (Harvard Classics v16; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by Stanley Lane-Poole, trans. by Edward William Lane
- Shambhala, by Nicholas Roerich (HTML at roerich.org)
- Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Picaninnies (second edition; London: D. Nutt; Melbourne: Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1897), by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Picaninnies, by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang (Gutenberg text)
- Australian Legendary Tales: Folk-Lore of the Noongahburrahs as Told to the Piccaninnies (London: D. Nutt; Melbourne: Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1896), by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang
- More Australian Legendary Tales: Collected From Various Tribes (with illustrations by a native artist; London: D. Nutt; Melbourne: Melville, Mullen and Slade, 1898), by K. Langloh Parker, contrib. by Andrew Lang
- The Stone Axe of Burkamukk (London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., 1922), by Mary Grant Bruce, illust. by J. MacFarlane
- Some Myths and Legends of the Australian Aborigines, by W. E. Thomas (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- Short Stories From the Balkans (Boston: Marshall Jones Co., 1919), trans. by Edna Worthley Underwood (page images at HathiTrust)
- The Types of the Folk-Tale: A Classification and Bibliography (translated and enlarged by Thompson; FF Communications #74; Helsinki: Suomalainen Tiedeakatemia, Academia Scientarum Fennica, 1928), by Antti Aarne, ed. by Stith Thompson (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- Vergleichende Märchenforschungen (in German; Helsinki: Druckerei der Finnischen Literaturgesellschaft, 1908), by Antti Aarne (multiple formats at Google; US access only)
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