Caesarius narrates a great many other exempla concerning nuns, but I have quoted the most characteristic. |
The mock-heroic story is full of rhetoric and exempla, and it is regarded as the most typically Chaucerian in tone and content. |
For numerous references, see the exempla of Jacques de Vitry, ed. |
Like Shakespeare's Troilus and Cressida, this emblem mocks Greek heroes while celebrating them as ideal exempla. |
Whereas the Stewart children had few pictorial precedents on the matter of negative exempla, a bounty of pictures represented choices being made. |
The Policraticus became widely known as its many moralizing stories proved a popular source for the teaching exempla cited by friars in their sermons. |