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Unravel ancient mysteries: Solomon’s wisdom versus Marcolf’s wit across cultures.
Solomon and Marcolf
Vernacular Traditions
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- Hardcover
544 pages
- Release Date
11 April 2023
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Summary
The Latin prose Solomon and Marcolf, enigmatic in origins, has been a puzzle from long before the sixteenth-century French author François Rabelais through the twentieth-century Russian critic Bakhtin to today. Though often called a dialogue, the second of its two parts comprises a rudimentary novel with twenty episodes.
Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions displays the mysteries of the tradition. Solomon relates to the biblical king, but did Marcolf originate …
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780674271876 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0674271874 |
| Author: | Jan M. Ziolkowski, Edward Sanger, Michael B. Sullivan |
| Publisher: | Harvard University Press |
| Imprint: | Harvard University Press |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 544 |
| Release Date: | 11 April 2023 |
| Weight: | 900g |
| Dimensions: | 39mm x 164mm x 264mm |
| Series: | Harvard Studies in Medieval Latin |
A-Format111 × 178 mm
B-Format130 × 198 mm
C-Format153 × 234 mm
164 × 264 mm
A4210 × 297 mm
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About The Author
Jan M. Ziolkowski
Jan M. Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University.
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