Song and Legend from the Middle Ages

This volume is a part of the course of home reading entitled the Chautauqua Literary and Scientific Circle. The aim of this little book is to give general readers some idea of the subject and spirit of European Continental literature in the later and culminating period of the Middle Ages, the 11th, 12th and 13th centuries. It contains chapters relative to French, Spanish, Scandinavian, German and Italian literature. No English is included because medieval English literature is easily accessible and because during that time the best medieval literature was developed, England was comparatively unproductive.