Three hundred years before the publication of Machiavelli s The
Prince, a now virtually unknown parable became the medieval
equivalent of a runaway bestseller. Whereas Machiavelli taught
kings how to manipulate their subjects, Reynard the Fox
demonstrated how clever subjects could outwit both their kings and
enemies alike. Despite its immense popularity at the time, this
brains-over-brawn parable largely disappeared, but it reemerges in
this rollicking translation by the renowned medieval scholar James
Simpson. In these pages the wily Reynard cons the likes of Tybert
the Cat, Bruin the Bear, and Isengrim the Wolf, among others,
exposing the arrogance, greed, and overweening hypocrisy of the
so-called civilized. Cleverly disguised as a tale about the animal
kingdom, Simpson s translation of the late-middle-English version
restores Reynard as part of a tradition that extends all the way to
Orwell s Animal Farm. Highlighted with all new illustrations,
Reynard the Fox is the animal fable s version of Homer s Odyssey
(Stephen Greenblatt)."
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