Ysengrimus

The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the persecution of the wolf Ysengrimus - who represents a hybrid abbot-bishop - by his archenemy Reynard the fox. The narrative's details are carefully crafted to make the wolf's pu [...]
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The twelfth-century Latin beast epic Ysengrimus is one of the great comic masterpieces of the Middle Ages. It recounts the persecution of the wolf Ysengrimus - who represents a hybrid abbot-bishop - by his archenemy Reynard the fox. The narrative's details are carefully crafted to make the wolf's punishment fit the abbot-bishop's crime.