{"title":"Asinarius, or The Donkey Tale","authors":"Stijn Praet","doi":"10.13110/MARVELSTALES.34.2.0279","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"Abstract:The Latin narrative poem Asinarius (The Donkey Tale, ca. 1200) is one of the most fairytale-like texts to have come out of the High Middle Ages. Its story tells of a prince born in the shape of an ass who is educated as a proper nobleman, learns to play the lyre, leaves his home, and weds a foreign princess, and on his wedding night is revealed to be a handsome young man. This contribution will provide readers with the first Englishverse translation of this engaging poem.","PeriodicalId":42276,"journal":{"name":"Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies","volume":"492 1","pages":"279 - 293"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2021-01-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Marvels & Tales-Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.13110/MARVELSTALES.34.2.0279","RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q2","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract:The Latin narrative poem Asinarius (The Donkey Tale, ca. 1200) is one of the most fairytale-like texts to have come out of the High Middle Ages. Its story tells of a prince born in the shape of an ass who is educated as a proper nobleman, learns to play the lyre, leaves his home, and weds a foreign princess, and on his wedding night is revealed to be a handsome young man. This contribution will provide readers with the first Englishverse translation of this engaging poem.
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Marvels & Tales (ISSN: 1521-4281) was founded in 1987 by Jacques Barchilon at the University of Colorado, Boulder. Originally known as Merveilles & contes, the journal expressed its role as an international forum for folktale and fairy-tale scholarship through its various aliases: Wunder & Märchen, Maravillas & Cuentos, Meraviglie & Racconti, and Marvels & Tales. In 1997, the journal moved to Wayne State University Press and took the definitive title Marvels & Tales: Journal of Fairy-Tale Studies. From the start, Marvels & Tales has served as a central forum for the multidisciplinary study of fairy tales. In its pages, contributors from around the globe have published studies, texts, and translations of fairy-tales from Europe, North America, Asia, and Africa. The Editorial Policy of Marvels & Tales encourages scholarship that introduces new areas of fairy-tale scholarship, as well as research that considers the traditional fairy-tale canon from new perspectives. The journal''s special issues have been particularly popular and have focused on topics such as "Beauty and the Beast," "The Romantic Tale," "Charles Perrault," "Marriage Tests and Marriage Quest in African Oral Literature," "The Italian Tale," and "Angela Carter and the Literary Märchen." Marvels & Tales is published every April and October by Wayne State University Press.