Gesta Romanorum

British  

/ ˈdʒɛstə ˌrəʊməˈnɔːrəm /

noun

1. a popular collection of tales in Latin with moral applications, compiled in the late 13th century as a manual for preachers

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Etymology

Origin of Gesta Romanorum

Latin: deeds of the Romans

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Gesta Romanorum

From the Gesta Romanorum it passed into a popular tale throughout Europe, and in different countries it was, like the Tell myth, localized and individualized.

From Curious Myths of the Middle Ages by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

The most ludicrous display of their literary imposture may be seen in that collection 489 of popular tales called the Gesta Romanorum.

From Amenities of Literature Consisting of Sketches and Characters of English Literature by Isaac Disraeli

We shall close this one with a story which was popular in Europe during the Middle Ages, being found in one of the great collections of that period, the Gesta Romanorum.

From Italian Popular Tales by Thomas Frederick Crane

The compilers of the Gesta Romanorum, Boccaccio, Gower, and Shakespeare have all drawn materials from it.—Bibliography:

From The New Gresham Encyclopedia. Vol. 1 Part 3 Atrebates to Bedlis by Various

At the end of this dull collection of old theology, are a few ms. opuscula, and among them one of the Gesta Romanorum: I should think of the fourteenth century.

From A Bibliographical, Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany, Volume Three by Thomas Frognall Dibdin

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