"Alexandreis" of Walter of Châtilon

Name: "Alexandreis" of Walter of Châtilon
Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press
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A Twelfth-Century Epic

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Engelska, 2015

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Beskrivning

Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon''s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a standard text of the literary curriculum. Virtually all authors of the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries knew the poem. And an extraordinary two hundred surviving manuscripts, elaborately annotated, attest both to the popularity of the Alexandreis and to the care with which it was read by its medieval audience.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2015-11-10
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:248
Filformat:EPUB
Kopieringsskydd:LCP
ISBN:9781512809473
Förlag:University of Pennsylvania Press
Översättare:David Townsend
Serie:Middle Ages Series

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David Townsend is Professor of Medieval Studies and English at the University of Toronto.

Recensioner i media

"While the Alexandreis did much to shape the medieval attitude to history, this translation helps to define it." (Times Literary Supplement)

Innehållsförteckning

AckowledgmentsIntroductionSelect BibliographyThe AlexandreisPrologueBook OneBook TwoBook ThreeBook FourBook FiveBook SixBook SevenBook EightBook NineBook TenNotesIndex of Proper Names

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