An edition and facing English translation of all of the stories that belong to the Anglo-Latin corpus of the immensely popular and influential collection of moralized stories from the Middle Ages, known as Gesta Romanorum ('The Deeds of the Romans').

• Introduction


• Latin text and translation


• Additional Exempla

Philippa Bright holds an MA (Hons) and PhD from the University of Sydney, Australia, and has taught at universities in Australia and New Zealand. Prior to retirement, she was a Senior Lecturer at the University of Otago, New Zealand, where she was also the Academic Director of the Student Learning Centre. She has published in the fields of Higher Education and Communication Literacies as well as Medieval Studies, but in recent years the main focus of her research has been the Anglo-Latin and Middle English versions of the Gesta Romanorum. Her edition of the Anglo-Latin Gesta is a product of this research.