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So I am thinking about a 2011 reading list/what will I be exploring next year?

Thinking of Chrétien de Troyes yesterday but I don't know which translation and the one copy I saw while browsing in a shop yesterday was a prose translation. It might be good.

I just don't know much about any of this: names of writers, specific translations or specific tales you're fond of, or anything else.

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 September 2010 10:01 (fourteen years ago) link

There is this on the archives:

Medieval treats

Maybe along these lines. I am familiar-ish with Boccaccio and bits of Chaucer.

xyzzzz__, Sunday, 12 September 2010 10:06 (fourteen years ago) link

The Simon Armitage version of Gawain and the Green knight is good.

Boccaccio is really fun, as long as you have a reasonably high tolerance for jokes about infidelity and bodily functions. it's Chaucer turned up to 11.

... (James Morrison), Monday, 13 September 2010 00:19 (fourteen years ago) link

fourteen years pass...

Hated the way this was written-up but its a list of what's available.

https://www.medievalists.net/2024/09/top-50-masterpieces-of-medieval-literature/

xyzzzz__, Wednesday, 2 October 2024 11:10 (three months ago) link


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