This book is a hymn to life in all its manifestations. It included various kinds of traditions (fairy tales, legends, myths) of the peoples who make up the v...

This book is the first publication in Russian, dedicated to the legendary history, culture and unique traditions of the Isle of Man, one of the wonderful lan...

“The Book of Lazaro de Tormes” is the conventional name of a cycle of works united by one hero, which is based on “The Life of Lazarillo...”, published anony...

The Little Flowers of Saint Francis (I Fioretti di San Francesco) is a medieval Italian florilegium consisting of 53 chapters recounting various amazing, mir...

The collection of medieval English poems includes "Sir Gawain and the Green Knight" - an example of a chivalric romance, "Sir Orfeo" - a popularized version ...

The Anglo-Saxon period of English history covers a total of six centuries - from the middle of the 5th century. to 1066, from the resettlement of Germanic tr...

The anonymous 13th-century poem “Bestiary of Love in Verse” is a kind of discourse on the nature of love; in it, the material of medieval bestiaries is reint...

Anonymous author of the treatise “On Military Affairs” of the second half of the 4th century. n. e. invites the emperors of the Roman Empire to implement a n...

This publication contains some of the most characteristic works of genres of medieval literature that are not very well known to the domestic reader. Compare...

Text translated according to the publication: Die Koelner Koenigschronik. Uebersetzt von K. Platner. Die Geschichtschreiber der deutschen Vorzeit. 2. Ausgabe...

Part of the publication without original texts and philological notes.