Late medieval literature was deeply determined by the global interest in entertaining and didactic storytelling. Some of the most famous authors who produced large collections of stories either in prose or in verse were Giovanni Boccaccio with his
Decameron(ca. 1350), Geoffrey Chaucer with his
Canterbury Tales(ca. 1400), Heinrich Kaufringer with his
mæren(ca. 1400), Franco Sacchetti with his
Il trecentonovelle(1399), Poggio Bracciolini with his
Facetiae(ca. 1450), Johannes Pauli with his
Schimpf und Ernst(1522), and Marguerite de Navarre with her
Heptaméron(1558/1559). To what extent Indian, Persian, Arabic, or Hebrew literature might have influenced these European collections cannot be easily confirmed, but we can be certain that this genre lent itself well for cross-cultural…
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Citation: Classen, Albrecht. "Cent Nouvelles Nouvelles". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 22 June 2023 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/sworks.php?rec=true&UID=41299, accessed 03 May 2024.]
