Medieval mythsOffering nine brilliant readings of the great myths of the world, from Beowulf to The Cid, this is the first collection to compare national heroes at a time when their cultures were emerging from barbarism into civilization, demonstrating how their reverberations have deeply affected the ideals of the nations from which they came. |
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User Review - StarofSophia - LibraryThingI got this book, thinking it was a collection of Medieval Mythology - and it is, but it is just a collection of excerpts. This would be a good book to introduce you to good titles in the genre, but you'll have to go find the actual text elsewhere. Read full review
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| Title | Medieval myths |
| Author | Norma Lorre Goodrich |
| Contributor | Norma Lorre Goodrich |
| Edition | revised |
| Publisher | New American Library, 1977 |
| Original from | Indiana University |
| Digitized | Jul 7, 2009 |
| Length | 286 pages |
| Subjects | › Fiction / General Literary Collections / Medieval Literary Criticism / Medieval Social Science / Folklore & Mythology |
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