Otia Imperialia: Recreation for an Emperor

Gervase (of Tilbury)

Clarendon Press, 2002 - Literary Criticism - 1013 pages

Gervase of Tilbury's Otia Imperialia was written in the early thirteenth century for his patron, the Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV. This is the first English translation of this major medieval text, which is both learned and entertaining, full of scientific and theological speculation and a wealth of accounts of folklore and popular belief.

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J. W. Binns is a Reader in Latin Literature, Centre for Medieval Studies, University of York.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Otia Imperialia: Recreation for an Emperor; Oxford Francis Bacon; Oxford medieval texts
• Author: Gervase (of Tilbury)
• Editors: S. E.. Banks, James W. Binns
• Translated by: S. E.. Banks, James W. Binns
• Compiled by: S. E.. Banks, James W. Binns
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Clarendon Press, 2002
• ISBN: 0198202881, 9780198202882
• Length: 1013 pages
• Subjects: History / Medieval; Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics / General; Literary Criticism / Ancient & Classical; Social Science / General