Project Gutenberg 2015-02-25 Public domain in the USA. 52 Shackford, Martha Hale 1875 1963 Legends and Satires from Mediæval Literature Produced by Chris Curnow, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) "Legends and Satires from Mediæval Literature" by Martha Hale Shackford is a scholarly collection of translations prepared for college students studying English poetry from the fourteenth century, likely written in the early 20th century. It compiles various poems and narratives from medieval literature, including debates, visions, pious tales, and saints' lives, thus providing an engaging glimpse into the themes and styles of the time. The opening of the book introduces readers to its purpose, which is to make medieval literature more accessible through modern translations. Shackford provides a preface explaining the difficulty in obtaining authentic texts for study and justifies the selection of pieces that are illustrative of common literary types from Chaucer's era. Among the initial content are reflections on the nature of man's body and soul, drawing on allegorical imagery to convey spiritual and philosophical themes. It sets the stage for the subsequent legends and narratives that humorously and solemnly explore love, morality, and spirituality in the context of medieval belief systems. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Literature, Medieval PN Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: History - Medieval/The Middle Ages Browsing: Literature 359608 359607 2024-09-20T08:26:47.160386 2023-09-21T05:17:48.990216 text/html text/html 369759 2015-02-24T19:08:42 text/html; charset=utf-8 272340 2015-02-24T19:08:44 text/html; charset=utf-8 application/zip 302948 2024-09-20T08:26:54.707358 application/epub+zip 302722 2024-09-20T08:26:48.361380 application/epub+zip 189847 2024-09-20T08:26:47.725388 application/epub+zip 420459 2024-09-20T08:26:58.801332 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 402409 2024-09-20T08:26:53.811402 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 290117 2022-09-22T03:51:42.822265 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 251116 250922 2024-09-20T08:26:46.010396 2023-09-21T05:17:47.945201 text/plain; charset=us-ascii text/plain 251377 2015-02-24T19:08:40 text/plain; charset=utf-8 96420 2015-02-24T19:08:42 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 18149 2024-09-20T08:26:58.934329 application/rdf+xml 10111 2024-09-20T08:26:47.846383 image/jpeg 1730 2024-09-20T08:26:47.785385 image/jpeg 272985 2024-09-20T08:26:47.190404 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog