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Author Orme, Nicholas

Title Fleas, flies, and friars : children's poetry from the Middle Ages / Nicholas Orme
Published Ithaca : Cornell University Press, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (110 pages) : color illustrations
Contents Children's poetry from the Middle Ages -- Growing up -- Words, rhymes, and songs -- Manners maketh man -- Stories -- School days
Summary Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems were composed to teach them how to behave, eat at meals, hunt game, and even learn Latin and French. In Fleas, Flies, and Friars, Nicholas Orme, an expert on childhood in the Middle Ages, has gathered a wide variety of children's verse that circulated in England beginning in the 1400s, providing a way for modern readers of all ages to experience the medieval world through the eyes of its children. In his delightful treasury of medieval children's verse, Orme does a masterful job of recovering a lively and largely unknown tradition, preserving the playfulness of the originals while clearly explaining their meaning, significance, or context. Poems written in Latin or French have been translated into English, and Middle English has been modernized. Fleas, Flies, and Friars has five parts. The first two contain short lyrical pieces and fragments, together with excerpts from essays in verse that address childhood or were written for children. The third part presents poems for young people about behavior. The fourth contains three long stories and the fifth brings together verse relating to education and school life
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Poems in English (modernized from Middle English), with some translated from French and Latin; introduction in English
Subject Children's poetry, English (Middle) -- Translations into English
Children's poetry, French -- Great Britain -- Translations into English
Children's poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Great Britain -- Translations into English
FICTION -- General.
LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval
Children's poetry, English (Middle)
Children's poetry, French
Children's poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Great Britain
Genre/Form Translations
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2011043207
ISBN 9780801464164
0801464161
0801451027
9780801451027
0801477751
9780801477751
0801464633
9780801464638
1322505497
9781322505497
Other Titles Children's poetry from the Middle Ages