Telling Tales and Crafting Books: Essays in Honor of Thomas H. Ohlgren

by Dorsey Armstrong

The great corpus that is medieval literature contains, at its very center, the tale. These verse and prose fictional narratives, as well as stories that are grounded in some degree of historical truth, are the foundation of what readers, scholars, and enthusiasts often point to as signifiers of the medieval age. These tales - from the skillfully crafted to the more rudimentary and plain - often make familiar to modern readers what seems so distant...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1580442196
• ISBN13: 9781580442190
• Release Date: February 2016
• Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications
• Length: 404 Pages
• Weight: 1.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.3"