Mediaeval Tales - Classic Reprint Author:Henry Morley This volume of "Mediaeval Tales" is in four parts, containing severally, (i) Turpin's "History of Charles the Great and Orlando," which is an old source of Charlemagne romance; (2) Spanish "Ballads, relating chiefly to the romance of Charlemagne, these being taken from the spirited translations of Spanish ballads published in 1823 by John Gibson... more » Lock-hart ; (3) a selection of stories from the " Gcsta Romanorum ;" and (4) the old translation of ihe original story of Faustus, on which Marlowe founded his play, and which is the first source of the Faust legend in literature. Turpin's "History of Charles the Great and Orlando" is given from a translation made by Thomas Rodd, and published by himself in 1812, of "Joannes Turpini Historia de Vita Caroli Magni ct Rolandi." ¦ This chronicle, composed by some monk at an unknown date before the year 1122, professed to be the work of a friend and secretary of Charles the Great, Turpin, Archbishop of Rheims, who was himself present i
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