A map of texts that geographically extends from France and Germany to Italy and Greece, temporally spans from the late medieval period to the Baroque era, Modernism, and the contemporary period (late 20th century), and includes several literary genres of European literature: folk tales of oral tradition (Greece), literarily refined tales (Italy, France, Germany), symbolic drama (France), hagiographical narration (Greece), dramatic texts of folk-religious performances (France, Italy), verse novels (France), and narrative poems (Italy).

It also includes two performances, one of which belongs to the specific genre of street theater.

[Excerpt from the text on the back cover of the edition]