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Gesta Romanorum

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Gesta Romanorum , medieval collection of Latin stories. Although the title means "Deeds of the Romans," the tales have very little to do with actual Roman history. Each tale is characterized by a moral. The earliest manuscript dates from the 14th cent., but it had probably been first collected several centuries earlier. Many of the stories were used later by such authors as Chaucer and Shakespeare.

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Gesta Romanorum

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Gesta Romanorum, a collection of fictitious stories and fables in Latin, probably compiled in England in the late 13th cent.; they have an attached moralization, like the bestiaries and allegories. The popularity of the work is shown by the existence of 15th-cent. versions in many European languages and by its influence on later medieval writers such as Boccaccio, Hoccleve, and Lydgate.

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MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Gesta Romanorum." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. 26 May. 2012 <http://www.encyclopedia.com>.

MARGARET DRABBLE and JENNY STRINGER. "Gesta Romanorum." The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature. 2003. Encyclopedia.com. (May 26, 2012). http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O54-GestaRomanorum.html

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