Jan Ziolkowski edits "Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions"

Jan Ziolkowski edited Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions (distributed by Harvard University Press, 2022). This collection, a team effort that involved current Harvard faculty as well as former graduate and undergraduate students, complements the author’s Solomon and Marcolf (2008). The earlier volume focused on the Latin text that formed the foundation of extraordinarily diverse traditions about the irreverent rascal Marcolf and his engagement with authorities such as King Solomon; this new one, heavily illustrated with images from manuscripts, printed books, and wall paintings, offers in English a wealth of evidence translated from French, Russian, German, Icelandic, Danish, and Italian that enables readers to follow the dialogues and narratives that proliferated around the peasant antihero.