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- Title
Ruth B. Bottigheimer's Straparola Thesis and Ole Meyer's Peau d'Asne Fragment: The Controversy 2005–2019.
- Authors
Bottigheimer, Ruth B.; Meyer, Ole
- Abstract
See Bottigheimer, "Motif, Meaning, and Editorial Change in Grimms' Tales: One Plot, Three Tales, and Three Different Stories". Straparola's composition and publication of rise fairy tales marks the moment when this plot gained a narrative toehold. </td></tr><tr><td colspan="10"><bold>Sixteenth Century (pre-Straparola)</bold></td></tr><tr><td><bold><italic>Fortunatus</italic> (1509)</bold></td><td colspan="2">yes</td><td>yes </td><td colspan="3">yes</td><td>no</td><td colspan="2">yes</td></tr><tr><td><bold>Girolamo Morlini Novella No. LXXX, "De fratribus qui per orbem pererrando ditati sunt"</bold><bold>= Straparola VII,5), "Three brothers, poor men, go out into the world and acquire great riches"</bold></td><td colspan="2">Yes</td><td>yes</td><td colspan="3">yes</td><td>no</td><td colspan="2">yes</td></tr></tbody></table> ht A Different charge Interwoven with Meyer's pre-Straparola rise fairy tale claims is an attack on "Ruth B. Bottigheimer's controversial theory that wonder tales were a sixteenth-century urban creation in print rather than a European oral tradition" (316). A book history approach, for instance, persuasively explains the medieval dissemination of one widespread European fairy tale plot: Latin stories from a multiply reproduced manuscript sermon tale collection, I Scala coeli i by Jean Gobi Junior (?.
- Subjects
CITY dwellers; PEASANTS; FAIRY tales; MARRIAGES of royalty &; nobility; POPULAR literature; DAUGHTERS; PRIESTS
- Publication
Fabula, 2021, Vol 62, Issue 1/2, p185
- ISSN
0014-6242
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1515/fabula-2021-0008