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Glending Olson.
Literature as Recreation in the Middle Ages.
Published Ithaca: Cornell U.P., 1986 reissue (previously issued in hardback, 1982).
ISBN 0801493684.
Binding: paperback, perfect bound.
Printed in the USA.
Size: 140×214×17mm.
Page count: 243pp.
Main language: English.
Overall condition good: this copy has some grubby marks on its covers, in particular where a large-ish sticker has been peeled from the front cover, leaving a roughened patch; a bit of wear on the edges and corners, some grubby marks on the page edges; the spine is not creased from reading and the text appears to be free of marking.

This item £6.00
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Weight without packaging: 313g.

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Contents: Medieval attitudes towards literary pleasure; The hygienic justification — nonnaturals & accidents of the soul — literature as a source of cheerfulness — theatrica — literature as confabulatio; Recreational justification — Aristotle & secular tradition — monastic recreatio — recreation in medieval life; Some literature for solace — fabliau & court lyric — hostile witnesses — recreation in the Canterbury Tales; From plague to pleasure — Decameron & plague tracts — pattern in literature & life — response to the Black Death; Decameron & its early critics.

Illustrations: no
Maps & plans: no

Notes: at foot of page
Tables: no
Genealogies: no
Chronology: no
Glossary: no
Bibliography: no
Indexes: Sources; General.

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