The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Châtilon
A Twelfth-Century Epic
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1996
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-3347-6 (ISBN)
University of Pennsylvania Press (Verlag)
978-0-8122-3347-6 (ISBN)
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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. This title provides a translation of this work.
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.
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.
David Townsend is Professor of Medieval Studies and English at the University of Toronto.
Ackowledgments
Introduction
Select Bibliography
The Alexandreis
Prologue
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Book Five
Book Six
Book Seven
Book Eight
Book Nine
Book Ten
Notes
Index of Proper Names
Erscheint lt. Verlag | 29.12.1996 |
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Reihe/Serie | The Middle Ages Series |
Übersetzer | David Townsend |
Verlagsort | Pennsylvania |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
Themenwelt | Literatur ► Anthologien |
ISBN-10 | 0-8122-3347-6 / 0812233476 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0-8122-3347-6 / 9780812233476 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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