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Superstitions & Folk Belief

The Goddess Fortuna in Mediaeval Literature

by Howard Rollin Patch

A classic study of the figure of Fortune and her wheel in medieval writing and art, from Boethius to Chaucer and Dante. It remains the standard starting point for the history of the idea of luck in the Middle Ages.

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