Maleperduis
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Maleperduis, also spelled Malperdy, is Reynard the Fox's principal hideaway in the medieval tales of this figure of legend. The first extant versions of Reynard's literary cycle date from the second h
Malpertuus by Frits Van den Berghe (Museum of Fine Arts, Ghent)
Reynard the Fox
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Reynard the Fox is a literary cycle of medieval allegorical Dutch, English, French and German fables. The first extant versions of the cycle date from the second half of the 12th century. The genre wa
An illumination from a late 13th century manuscript of the Roman de Renart
A studious fox in a monk's cowl, in the margins of a book of hours, Utrecht, c. 1460
A 1498 illustration from Hans van Ghetelen, in Reinke de Vos
The trickster figure Reynard the Fox as depicted in an 1869 children's book by Michel Rodange