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The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the persecution of the wolf Ysengrimus - who represents a hybrid abbot-bishop - by his archenemy Reynard the fox. The narrative's details are carefully crafted to make the wolf's punishment fit the abbot-bishop's crime.
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Ysengrimus, Jilliane Hoffman
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- 2013
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- Title
- Ysengrimus
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Jilliane Hoffman
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Publisher
- 2013
- Format
- Hardcover
- ISBN10
- 0674724828
- ISBN13
- 9780674724822
- Description
- The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the persecution of the wolf Ysengrimus - who represents a hybrid abbot-bishop - by his archenemy Reynard the fox. The narrative's details are carefully crafted to make the wolf's punishment fit the abbot-bishop's crime.