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| Genre/Form: | Fabliaux Translations Translations into English |
|---|---|
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Nathaniel E Dubin; R Howard Bloch |
| ISBN: | 9780871403575 0871403579 |
| Language Note: | Poems in English with parallel Old French text. |
| OCLC Number: | 812248375 |
| Notes: | Poems in English with parallel Old French text. |
| Description: | xxxi, 982 pages : map ; 21 cm |
| Contents: | Introduction (starting p. xiii) / R. Howard Bloch -- Translator's Note (starting p. xxvi) -- Map (starting p. xxxii) -- The Fabliaux -- I. THE SOCIAL FABRIC (starting p. 1) -- 1. The Cunt Made with a Spade (Du con qui fu fait a la besche) (starting p. 5) -- 2. Trollops and Troupers (Des Putains et des lecheors) (starting p. 9) -- 3. The Three Estates (Des chevaliers, des clers et des villains) (starting p. 15) -- 4. How the Priest Read the Passion Story (Le Prestre qui dist la passion) (starting p. 17) -- 5. The Priest and the Wolf (Le Prestre et le leu) (starting p. 21) -- 6. The Priest and Alison (Le Prestre et Alison) Guillaume le Normand (starting p. 23) -- 7. The Crucified Priest (Le Prestre crucefie) (starting p. 49) -- 8. The Priest Who Had a Mother Foisted on Him (Le Prestre qui ot mere malgre sien) (starting p. 55) -- 9. The Cunt Blessed by a Bishop (L'Evesque qui benei le con) (starting p. 67) -- 10. Brother Denise (Freire Denise le cordelier) (starting p. 79) / Rutebeuf -- 11. The Beaten Path (Le Sentier batu) (starting p. 99) / Jean de Conde -- 12. The Knight of the Red Robe (Le Chevalier a la robe vermeille) (starting p. 107) -- 13. The Stupid Knight (Le sot chevalier) (starting p. 125) / Gautier le Zeu -- 14. The Knight Who Made Cunts Talk (Le Chevalier qui fesoit les cons parler) (starting p. 143) / Garin -- 15. The Muleteer (Le Vilain asnier) (starting p. 177) -- 16. The Piece of Shit (La Crote) (starting p. 181) -- 17. Black Balls (La Coille noire) (starting p. 185) -- 18. The Peasant Doctor (Le Vilain mire) (starting p. 191) -- 19. Long Butthole Berengier (Berangier au lone cul) (starting p. 213) / Guerin -- 20. The Poor Peddler (Le povre mercier) (starting p. 229) -- 21. The Two Money Changers (Les .ii. changeors) (starting p. 245) -- 22. The Knight Who Heard His Wife's Confession (Le Chevalier qui fist sa fame confesse) (starting p. 261) -- 23. Auberee, the Go-Between (Auberee) (starting p. 277) / Jehan -- 24. Thrice Around the Church (La Dame qui fist .iii. tors entor le mostier) (starting p. 315) / Rutebeuf -- 25. The Mourner Who Got Fucked at the Grave Site (La Dolente qui fu fotue sur la tonbe) (starting p. 325) -- 26. The Three Girls (Les .iii. meschines) (starting p. 331) -- 27. The Girl Who Wanted to Fly (La Damoisele qui vost voler) (starting p. 339) -- 28. The Old Beggar Woman (La vieille truande) (starting p. 345) -- 29. Walter and Marion (Gautheron et Marion) (starting p. 359) -- 30. Piggie (Porcelet) (starting p. 361) -- 31. The Fellow with a Dozen Wives (Le Vallet aus .xii. fames) (starting p. 365) -- 32. The Cleric Behind the Chest (Le Clerc qui fu repus deriere l'escrin) (starting p. 373) / Jean de Conde -- 33. Master Ham and Naggie, His Wife (Sire Haim et dame Anieuse) (starting p. 383) / Hues Piaucele -- 34. The Gelded Lady (La Dame escoilliee) (starting p. 407) -- 35. The Fisherman of Pont-sur-Seine (Le Pescheor de Pont-sur-Seine) (starting p. 439) -- 36. The Donkey's Legacy (Le Testament de l'asne) (starting p. 453) / Rutebeuf -- 37. The Peasant's Fart (Le Pet au vilain) (starting p. 463) / Rutebeuf -- 38. The Soul That Argued Its Way into Heaven (L'Arme qui guangna paradis par plait) (starting p. 467) -- II. THE COMEDY OF ERRORS (starting p. 479) -- 39. The Crane (La Damoisele de la grue) (starting p. 483) / Garin -- 40. The Peekaboo Priest (Le Prestre qui abevete) (starting p. 491) / Garin -- 41. The Peasant of Bailleul (Le Vilain de Bailleul) (starting p. 497) / Jean Bodel -- 42. The Priest and the Woman (Le Prestre et la dame) (starting p. 503) -- 43. Gombert (starting p. 513) / Jean Bodel -- 44. The Healer (La Saineresse) (starting p. 525) -- 45. The Butcher of Abbeville (Le Bouchier d'Abevile) (starting p. 531) / Eustache d'Amiens -- 46. The Three Blind Men of Compiegne (Les .iii. avugles de Compigne) Cortebarbe (starting p. 565) -- 47. The Three Women Who Found a Ring (Les .iii. dames qui troverent l'anel) (starting p. 583) -- 48. Boivin de Provins Boivin (starting p. 599) -- 49. The Good Woman of Orleans (La Borgoise d'Orlians) (starting p. 621) -- 50. The Miller of Arleux (Le Maunier d'Aleus) (starting p. 639) / Enguerrant d'Oisy -- 51. Jouglet (starting p. 663) / Colin Malet -- 52. The Two Peasants (Les .ii. vilains) (starting p. 687) / Gautier le Zeu -- 53. The Three Hunchbacks (Les .iii. bocus) (starting p. 697) / Durant -- 54. The Portable Priest (Le Segretain moine) (starting p. 715) -- 55. Constant du Hamel (starting p. 761) -- III. SINNING, SEX, AND SAINTLINESS (starting p. 815) -- 56. The Partridges (Les Perdris) (starting p. 819) -- 57. The Chaplain's Goose (L'Oue au chapelain) (starting p. 827) -- 58. The Priest Who Ate Blackberries (Le Prestre qui menga mores) Guerin (starting p. 833) -- 59. The Fucker (Le Foteor) (starting p. 839) -- 60. The Squirrel (L'Escuiruel) (starting p. 861) -- 61. The Maiden Who Couldn't Abide Lewd Language (La Damoisele qui n'oit parler de fotre qui n'aust mal au cuer) (starting p. 873) -- 62. Saint Martin's Four Wishes (Les sohaiz saint Martin) (starting p. 885) -- 63. The Little Rag Mouse (La Sorisete des estopes) (starting p. 895) -- 64. Trial by Cunt (Le Jugement des cons) (starting p. 909) -- 65. The Blacksmith of Creil (Le Fevre de Creeil) (starting p. 919) -- 66. The Ring That Controlled Erections (L'Anel qui faisoit les viz grans et roides) (starting p. 929) / Haiseau -- 67. Mr. Greed and Mr. Envy (Du covoiteus et de l'envieus) (starting p. 931) / Jean Bodel -- 68. Brownie, the Priest's Cow (Brunain, la vache au prestre) (starting p. 937) / Jean Bodel -- 69. The Man Who Saved His Buddy from Drowning (Le Preudome qui rescolt son conpere de noier) (starting p. 941) -- Acknowledgments (starting p. 947) -- Explanatory Notes (starting p. 949) -- List of Fabliaux Manuscripts (starting p. 975) -- Bibliography (starting p. 977) |
| Other Titles: | Fabliaux. |
| Responsibility: | translated by Nathaniel E. Dubin ; introduction by R. Howard Bloch. |
| Local System Bib Number: | 007687006 |
Abstract:
Winner * Modern Language Association's Scaglione Prize for Translation Bawdier than The Canterbury Tales, The Fabliaux is the first major English translation of the most scandalous and irreverent
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