This edition is the fruit of Professor Matsumoto's lifelong devotion to the study of the story of Troy in the Middle Ages, beginning with his edition of the major alliterative poem The Destruction of Troy by John Clerk. As well as articles on the subject, Professor Matsumoto has published invaluable concordances to The Destruction of Troy, The Laud Troy Book and John Lydgate's massive Troy Book. Given the renewed interest in William Caxton, this excellent edition of The Recuyell of the Historyes of Troye makes a valuable contribution to scholarship.
(Thorlac Turville-Petre, Professor Emeritus, University of Nottingham)
The book is about the genealogy of the ancient Greek gods and the legend of Troy.
William Caxton, for almost thirty years, led his life as a merchant, a diplomat and a cosmopolitan in Bruges, at that time the most prosperous international center of trade in northern Europe. This book is his translation of Raoul Lef
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