H. A. Guerber
Legends of the Middle Ages
Narrated with Special Reference to Literature and Art
Published by Good Press, 2019
EAN 4057664616371
Table of Contents
LEGENDS OF THE MIDDLE AGES.
GENERAL SURVEY OF ROMANCE LITERATURE.
OUTLINES FOR REVIEW IN HISTORY
A SOURCE BOOK OF MEDIAEVAL HISTORY
WEBSTER'S SECONDARY SCHOOL DICTIONARY
PUPIL'S NOTEBOOKS AND STUDY OUTLINES IN HISTORY
ESSENTIALS OF BIOLOGY
SHARPE'S LABORATORY MANUAL IN BIOLOGY
GARNER'S GOVERNMENT IN THE UNITED STATES
AMERICAN POEMS
DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF HIGH SCHOOL AND COLLEGE TEXTBOOKS
PREFACE.
The object of this work is to familiarize young students with the legends which form the staple of mediaeval literature.
While they may owe more than is apparent at first sight to the classical writings of the palmy days of Greece and Rome, these legends are very characteristic of the people who told them, and they are the best exponents of the customs, manners, and beliefs of the time to which they belong. They have been repeated in poetry and prose with endless variations, and some of our greatest modern writers have deemed them worthy of a new dress, as is seen in Tennyson's "Idyls of the King," Goethe's "Reineke Fuchs," Tegnér's "Frithiof Saga," Wieland's "Oberon," Morris's "Story of Sigurd," and many shorter works by these and less noted writers.
These mediaeval legends form a sort of literary quarry, from which, consciously or unconsciously, each writer takes some stones wherewith to build his own edifice. Many allusions in the literature of our own day lose much of their force simply because these legends are not