Fleas, Flies and Friars: Children's Poetry from the Middle Ages by Nicholas Orme

Fleas, Flies and Friars: Children's Poetry from the Middle Ages

Nicholas Orme

128 pages first pub 2011 (editions)

nonfiction history poetry informative fast-paced
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Medieval children lived in a world rich in poetry, from lullabies, nursery rhymes, and songs to riddles, tongue twisters, and nonsensical verses. They read or listened to stories in verse: ballads of Robin Hood, romances, and comic tales. Poems we...

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