Legends and Satires from Mediæval Literature, by Shackford, Martha Hale

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Editor

Shackford, Martha Hale, 1875-1963

Title

Legends and Satires from Mediæval Literature

Credits

Produced by Chris Curnow, MWS and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)

Language

English

LoC Class

PN: Language and Literatures: Literature: General, Criticism, Collections

Subject

Literature, Medieval

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Text

eBook-No.

48355

Project Gutenberg

https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/48355

Release Date

February 25, 2015

Copyright

Public domain in the USA.

Contents

1. 1.LEGENDS AND SATIRES FROM MEDIÆVAL LITERATURE
2. 2.PREFACE
3. 3.CONTENTS
4. 4.INTRODUCTION
5. 5.PROEM — OF MAN'S BODY [3] — OF MAN'S SOUL
6. 6.DEBATE — THE AMOROUS CONTENTION OF PHILLIS AND FLORA [4] — THE PLEADING OF THE ROSE AND OF THE VIOLET [25]
7. 7.VISION — THE PURGATORY OF SAINT PATRICK [26]
8. 8.SAINTS' LIVES — THE LIFE OF SAINT BRANDON [31] — THE LIFE OF SAINT MARGARET [39]
9. 9.PIOUS TALES — A MIRACLE OF GOD'S BODY [40] — A MIRACLE OF THE VIRGIN [41] — THE TRANSLATION OF SAINT THOMAS OF CANTERBURY [42]
10. 10.ALLEGORY — AN EXTRACT FROM "THE CASTLE OF LOVE" [43]
11. 11.BESTIARY — THE LION [45] — Nature — Signification — THE EAGLE — Nature — Signification — THE WHALE — Nature — Signification — THE SIREN — Nature — Signification
12. 12.LAPIDARY — EXTRACTS FROM LAPIDARIES [46] — Diamond — Sapphire — Amethyst — Chelidonius — Coral — Heliotrope — Pearl — Pantheros — Symbolism of the Carbuncle [47] — Symbolism of the Twelve Stones [48]
13. 13.HOMILY — CONCERNING MIRACLE PLAYS, GAMES, AND MINSTRELSY [49]
14. 14.SATIRE — THE SONG OF THE UNIVERSITY OF PARIS [51] — THE LAND OF COCKAYGNE [52] — THE COMPLAINT OF THE HUSBANDMAN [53] — SIR PENNY [63]
15. 15.LAY — SIR ORFEO [64]
16. 16.NOTES — Frontispiece. — PROEM — Of Man's Body. Of Man's Soul — DEBATE — The Amorous Contention of Phillis and Flora — The Pleading of the Rose and of the Violet — VISION — The Purgatory of Saint Patrick — SAINTS' LIVES — The Life of Saint Brandon — The Life of Saint Margaret — PIOUS TALES — A Miracle of God's Body — A Miracle of the Virgin — The Translation of Saint Thomas of Canterbury — ALLEGORY — " The Castle of Love " — BESTIARY — Lion , Eagle , Whale , Siren — LAPIDARY — Selections from Lapidaries — HOMILY — Concerning Miracle Plays, Games, and Minstrelsy — SATIRE — The Song of the University of Paris — The Land of Cockaygne — The Complaint of the Husbandman — Sir Penny — LAY — Sir Orfeo
17. 17.FOOTNOTES:
18. 18.TRANSCRIBER'S NOTES

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