Phoebus Focus IV
Van den vos Reynaerde — ‘Of Reynard the Fox’ — is an animal fable or beast epic written in the thirteenth century. The thirteenth-century fox is an archetypal anti-hero: a crafty villain — worse, a murderer — whose actions ruthlessly expose the hypocrisy of the establishment. The Phoebus Foundation’s collection includes a fund of some four hundred items, each of which is a translation or adaptation of the original Reynard story. From sixteenth-century chapbooks to Goethe to Louis Paul Boon, the fox never dies.
