Gesta Romanorum is Latin story-collection, with each story having an application or allegorization. Some evidence suggests that a Franciscan cleric wrote it late in the thirteenth century. It was known by the early fourteenth century. It was one of the most widely known books within the European Middle Ages. Gesta Romanorum is an open work. It lacks one master version, although many stories are common across most versions.
A perfect friend took a murder charge for a friend. Another man, engrossed in eating honey, fell to death in a pit after ignoring his friend’s help. … Read the post even perfect friend cannot help honey-eating man hanging in pit
New critical gender theory recognizes the burden workingmen have carried through history. A true workingmen’s rebellion must abolish wives’ privilege. … Read the post emperor honored workingman’s rebellion & wife’s privilege
The great poet Virgil, revered as a magician in medieval Europe, constructed a magic mirror to save a husband from his adulterous, murderous wife. … Read the post master Virgil’s magic mirror saved husband from murderous wife
Valerius Maximus’s sacrificial father & repentant, parricidal son suggests a Jewish recasting of Isaac’s binding into a story like the Prodigal Son parable. … Read the post Valerius Maximus on a sacrificial father and his repentant son
Hoccleve’s Series (1420) drew tales of Jereslaus’s wife and Jonathas from the medieval Gesta Romanorum to provide a critical perspective on social justice. … Read the post tales of Jereslaus’s wife & Jonathas in Hoccleve’s subversive Series