Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Our Lady's Tumbler: A Tale of Mediaeval France
Our lady's tumbler is one of a large body of stories much beloved in Mediaeval France that turn upon some miracle per formed by the Virgin, - a type of story of which the most familiar example in English is the tale told by Chaucer's prioress. Ear ly in the thirteenth century sev eral collections of these miracles were compiled, the two most important being those of Gau tier de Coinci, prior of vic-sur Aisne, and of Jean le Marchant, a priest of Chatres. Though most of the legends are interest ing to us to-day mainly for the curious insight they give us into the religious sentiment of thetime, there are yet not a few that we like for their own sakes, for their naivete, sincerity, and pathos. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
