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Table of Contents: “…French tales / translated by Peter Rickard The goodman who saved another from drowning -- The peasant and his two donkeys -- The three hunchbacks -- The housewife of Orleans -- Brownie, the priest's cow -- The donkey's last wil and testament -- The peasant doctor -- St Peter and the minstrel -- The knight who won back his estranged lady -- Spanish tales / translated by Alan Deyermond -- The well -- The parrot -- The bathkeeper -- Booklearning and experience -- The debate of Greeks and Romans -- Pitas Payas, the Breton painter -- The youth and the millstone -- The drunken mouse -- The reluctant monk -- The timid lover's expedition -- English tales / translated by Derek Brewer -- Dame Sirirth -- About a man who acted in a play as a devil -- About a miller who stole nuts -- About the married men who came to heaven -- About the Yeoman of the guard who said he would beat the carter -- About the man who meant to have the pot stand where he wanted -- Why there are no Welshmen in heaven -- About the friar who preached against people who ride on Sundays -- Italian tales / translated by Derek Brewer -- Sir Bernabo commands an abbot to tell him four impossible things -- Lapaccio di Geri sleeps with a corpse -- Benghi goes to joust -- Matteo and the mouse -- A windy night -- Thrown into the drink -- German tales / translated by David Blamires -- The judge and the devil -- The three monks of Colmar -- The lover in the tree -- Returning the payment for love -- Three wily women -- The false Messiah -- The smith in the baking-trough -- Dutch tales / translated by Peter King -- Reynard and Chanticleer -- The King and Elegast -- Saint Brandane laughs heartily -- Medieval Latin tales / translated by Michael Lapidge -- Ruodlieb and Rufus -- Cambridge songs: -- The snow-child -- Alfrad and her ass -- The parson and the wolf -- Little Abbot John -- Pamphilus -- Medieval Latin anecdotes --The quarrelsome woman -- The deceit and cunning of old women -- The peasant and the sheep -- The English nobleman and his three sons -- The woman who greased the judge's palm -- The fox and the wolf -- The two companions -- Reynard and Tibert -- The demon and the robber -- The man who pretended to be dead -- The lawyer and a devil -- The Jew's daughter -- The bailiff and his wife -- Aristotle -- The blind man and his wife -- The fasting abbot -- The old woman who made a pact with the devil -- The adulterous wife -- The woman who met a priest --- The peasant and the ape -- Afterword. …”