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Index
Preface
Abbreviations
1 Medieval Attitudes toward Literary Pleasure
2 The Hygienic Justification
The Nonnaturals and the Accidents of the Soul
Literature as a Source of Cheerfulness
Theatrica
Literature as Confabulatio
3 The Recreational Justification
Aristotle and the Secular Tradition
Monastic Recreatio
Recreation in Medieval Life: Two Examples
4 Some Literature for Solace
Fabliau and Court Lyric
Hostile Witnesses
Recreation in the Canterbury Tales
5 From Plague to Pleasure
The Decameron and the Plague Tracts
The Pattern in Literature and Life
A Response to the Black Death
6 The Decameron and Its Early Critics
Index of Sources
Index
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