In the middle of the 12th century, having conquered overseas lands and having found nothing remarkable there except pigeon mail, Europe was alarmed by the ne...

The poem “Song of the Crusade against the Albigensians” (first half of the 13th century) is the only monument of Old Occitan literature that combines histori...

Here we talk about a world in which a great epic took shape on the edges of forests and at banquet tables. Where was it? When it was? How did it happen that ...

The First Vatican Mythograph was compiled at the turn of the 1st-2nd millennium by an unknown medieval compiler and contains 233 stories of various sizes, dr...

The first Russian translation and, accordingly, the first Russian edition of the famous and practically unknown to the domestic reader monument of the mediev...

“Clothesline Romances” - poems with a fascinating and sensational plot - were once extremely popular. They were published in the form of folded sheets and hu...

Following the example of medieval codes, the cover contains the best examples of treatises on monsters written in the Middle Ages: “The Book of Beasts and Mo...

“The Story of the Cunning Trickster, Reynard the Fox” is the only prose version of “The Romance of the Fox,” an epoch-making work twenty thousand lines long,...

“Poor Yorick!.. Where are your jokes? Where are your jokes? - exclaimed Shakespeare, remembering the sparkling humor of Sommers and Tarleton, the jesters of ...

The so-called Chronicle of Priest Dukljanin is one of the oldest monuments of medieval historiography of the Slavic peoples of the western Balkans. The datin...

The book includes well-known collections of mischievous and instructive German Schwanks of the 16th century, as well as the so-called “folk books” of the sam...

The book contains Breton folk ballads. Compilation, translation, afterword by M.D. Yasnov and E.V. Baevskaya.