To Instruct and to Entertain – Medieval Didactic Dialogues</a>

To Instruct and to Entertain – Medieval Didactic Dialogues

This volume brings together related examples of medieval didactic dialogues. Texts of this kind were designed both to instruct their readers or audience in doctrine, wisdom, morality, and Christian truth, and at the same time to entertain them through witty verbal exchanges, enigmas, and riddles.