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"A remarkably well-informed and truly innovative study of the way Boccaccio reimagined and rewrote Old French fabliaux in his Decameron."—François Rigolot, P
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Type: BOOK - Published: 2023-01-31 - Publisher: Cambridge University Press

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Olivia Holmes explores the Decameron's sceptical and sexually permissive contents against the backdrop of medieval religion and didacticism.
Reconsidering Boccaccio
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Authors: Olivia Holmes
Categories: Literary Criticism
Type: BOOK - Published: 2018-01-01 - Publisher: University of Toronto Press

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Reconsidering Boccaccio explores the exceptional social, geographic, and intellectual range of the Florentine writer Giovanni Boccaccio, his dialogue with voice
Medieval Literature and Social Politics
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Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Stories for an Uncertain World
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A comparative study of Boccaccio's Decameron and Chaucer's Canterbury Tales that explores the differences and similarities between the worlds that are portrayed