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
The Morall Fabillis of Esope the Phrygian is a work of Northern Renaissance literature composed in Middle Scots by the fifteenth century Scottish makar, Robert Henryson. It is a cycle of thirteen conn
Aesop, as depicted by Hartmann Schedel in 1493.
A German depiction of the Cock and the Fox, c. 1498