Gervaise of Tilbury: Otia Imperialia: Recreation for an Emperor

Contributor(s): Gervase (Author), Banks, S E (Editor), Binns, J W (Editor)

ISBN: 9780198202882

Publisher: OUP Oxford

Hardcover

$540.00

Pub Date: July 18, 2002

Dewey: 303.9022

LCCN: 2001036134

Lexile Code: 0000

Features: Annotated, Bibliography, Index

Target Age Group: NA to NA

Physical Info: 2.25" H x 8.50" L x 5.50" W ( 3.13 lbs) 1112 pages

BISAC Categories:

Series: Oxford Medieval Texts

Descriptions, Reviews, etc.

Description: Gervase of Tilbury's Otia Imperialia was written in the early thirteenth century for his patron, the Holy Roman Emperor Otto IV. This is the first English translation of this major medieval text, which is both learned and entertaining, full of scientific and theological speculation and a wealth of accounts of folklore and popular belief.

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