Fictions
A manuscript of the Tristan and Iseult stories in prose, Dijon, Bibliothèque Municipale, 527
It is generally agreed that the tradition of the European novel begins with the compellingly bizarre Satyricon of Petronius. 1st-century Romans were finally able to consume a literary work which was neither history, philosophy, essay, personal reflection on natu…
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