Comprehensive, groundbreaking work encompasses vast amount of material — from the demise of ancient Roman spectacles (c. 400 AD) to a new class of professional players by the 16th-century. Excellent accounts of wandering minstrels, mimes, mummers, miracle and morality plays, puppet shows, dramatic pageants, liturgical plays and much more.
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The Wandering Scholars of the Middle Ages by Helen Waddell Acclaimed study of the makers and singers of medieval Latin poetry considers Fortunatus, Abelard, the revival of learning in France, 12th-century humanism, the Carmina Burana, more.
Medieval Literature in Translation by Charles W. Jones Comprehensive anthology contains exquisite cross-section of Western medieval literature, from Boethius and Augustine to Dante, Abelard, Marco Polo, and Villon, in masterful translations. "No better anthology exists." — Commonweal
