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Tables of Contents for The Dedalus Book of Medieval Literature
Chapter/Section Title
Page #
Page Count
Introduction: Fallen Man
13
10
Prologue: Original Sins
23
12
Gregory the Great on Genesis (Latin)
24
1
Adam and Eve (German)
25
7
Unoriginal sins, from confessional handbooks (Latin and German)
32
3
The Roman Empire Goes and Comes
35
16
The Ruin (Anglo-Saxon)
36
2
Attila, from Waltharius (Latin)
38
5
Fredegonda the Concubine, from Gregory of Tours' History of the Franks (Latin)
43
5
Charlemagne, from Einhard's Life of Charlemagne (Latin)
48
3
The Ruling Classes
51
34
Charlemagne's Grandchildren, from Nithard's Histories (Latin)
52
5
English Anarchy 1137, from the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle (Anglo-Saxon)
57
3
Richard I, from various medieval chronicles (Latin)
60
7
Edward II, from various medieval chronicles (Latin)
67
6
Pedro the Cruel, from Froissart's Chronicles (French)
73
4
Gilles de Rais, from the trial documents (Latin)
77
8
Society
85
70
Wernher, Helmbrecht (German)
86
53
The Archpoet, from the Confession (Latin)
139
3
Cecco Agniolieri, Two Sonnets (Italian)
142
2
The Destruction of the World, from Jacob Ruf's Adam and Eve (Swiss)
144
11
Sex
155
34
The Snow-Baby (Latin)
156
4
Marie de France, King Equitan (French)
160
10
Giovanni Boccaccio, from the Decameron (Italian)
170
6
The Monk and the Wee Goose (German)
176
9
I Have a Gentil Cok (English)
185
1
Dafydd ap Gwilym, Metrical Verses on the Subject of his Prick (Welsh)
186
3
Manners
189
14
Gluttony, from the Worcester Sermon II (English)
190
2
A Drinking Song, from the Carmina Burana (Latin)
192
1
Table Manners, from The Book of Polite Behaviour-(English)
193
3
How the Good Wife Taught her Daughter (English)
196
3
Modern Fashions, from Brant's Ship of Fools-(German)
199
2
Cornish Behaviour, from Andrew Boorde's Introduction to the First Boke of Knowledge (English)
201
2
Religion
203
46
Black Magic, from The Corrector (Latin)
205
2
Rutebeuf, Theophilus (French)
207
22
A Black Mass, from The Life of St Meriasek (Cornish)
229
4
A Drinker's Mass (Latin)
233
6
Thomas Murner, from The Guild of Fools (German)
239
2
Thomas Murner, from The Great Lutheran Fool (German)
241
8
Epilogue: Laments for A Misspent Youth
249
9
Priapeia (German)
250
1
Duncan Campbell of Glenorchy, Poem (Gaelic)
251
2
The Lady of Beare, Grown Old (Irish)
253
5
A Note on Sources
258