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 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 Rochester)
- 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)
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Filed under: Tales- Folk-Tales From Many Lands (c1939), by Rose Fyleman (HTML in Canada; NO US ACCESS)
- 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, by W. A. Clouston (HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- 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)
- 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: 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 (frame-dependent 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 Smith Wiggin and Nora Archibald Smith, illust. by Maxfield Parrish
- Stories From The Thousand and One Nights, ed. by Stanley Lane-Poole, trans. by Edward William Lane (HTML at Bartleby)
- Shambhala, by Nicholas Roerich (HTML at roerich.org)
- The Stone Axe of Burkamukk (London and Melbourne: Ward, Lock and Co., 1922), by Mary Grant Bruce, illust. by J. MacFarlane
- 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
- 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 Dawn of the World: Myths and Weird Tales Told by the Mewan Indians of California, by C. Hart Merriam (illustrated HTML at sacred-texts.com)
- "Wer ist Mein Nächster?" Negertypen aus Deutschwestafrika (in German; Berlin: Gose und Tetzlaff, 1903), by Paula Karsten
- Canadian Wonder Tales, by Cyrus MacMillan, illust. by George Sheringham (illustrated HTML at Gateway to the Classics)
- Myths and Legends of China, by E. T. C. Werner (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Fairy Tales From Before Fairy Tales: The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies (Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, c2007), by Jan M. Ziolkowski (page images at HathiTrust)
- Mongo Proverbs and Fables (Bongandanga: Congo Balolo Mission Press, 1921), by E. A. Ruskin
- Notes on the Folklore of the Fjort (French Congo) (London: Pub. for the Folk-Lore Society by David Nutt, 1898), by R. E. Dennett, contrib. by Mary Henrietta Kingsley
- Uit den Kunstschat der Bakongos (2 volumes, in Dutch; Amsterdam: C. L. Van Langenhuysen; Berlin: D. Reimer, 1908), by Ivo Struyf
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