Print version: Brown, Katherine Adams. Boccaccio’s fabliaux : medieval short stories and the function of reversal. Gainesville : University Press of Florida, [2014] 226 pages ISBN 9780813049175
Includes bibliographical references and index
Introduction -- Fabliaux reversals and La Grue -- The Fabliaux in context: BNF fr. 2173 -- Medieval story collections and framing devices -- Boccaccio’s Fabliaux: transmission and transformation of the Fabliaux to the Decameron -- Conclusion.
Provides a new and provocative interpretation of the relationship between medieval French fabliaux and Boccaccio’s Decameron, examining their formal similarities..