Catalogue

Catalogue
Author: Bernard Quaritch (Firm)
Publisher:
Total Pages: 1028
Release: 1907
Genre: Antiquarian booksellers
ISBN:

The seven sages of Rome (midland version)

The seven sages of Rome (midland version)
Author: Jill Whitelock
Publisher: Early English Text Society
Total Pages: 276
Release: 2005
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780197223277

This is a new edition of an independent Middle English version of an enormously popular story collection, found in almost all European languages. This version was previously edited by Thomas Wright in 1845, but is not otherwise available. The new edition presents a corrected text with full introduction and commentary. The Seven Sages is the first framed story in English, and was known to Chaucer and Gower, among others.