Volume 2

Gesta Romanorum, or, entertaining stories invented by the monks as a fire-side recreation; and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit / translated by Charles Swan.

Date:
1871
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: Gesta Romanorum, or, entertaining stories invented by the monks as a fire-side recreation; and commonly applied in their discourses from the pulpit / translated by Charles Swan. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    53(5sa GESTA ROMANORUM OR, entertaining; Stories INVENTED BY THE MONKS AS A FIRE-SIDE RECREATION; AND COMMONLY APPLIED IN THEIR DISCOURSES FROM THE PULPIT. NEW EDITION, WITH AN INTRODUCTION BY THOMAS WRIGHT, ESO. M.A. F.S.A. ‘ They [the Monks] might be disposed occasionally to recreate their minds with subjects of a light and amusing nature ; and what could be more innocent or de- lightful than the stories of the Gesta Ro jiaxokvii ? ’ Douce's Ilhistra'-ions of Shakspeare. IN TWO VOLUMES.—VoL. II. LONDON: John Camden Hotten, 74 b* 75 Piccadilly.