The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Châtillon: A Twelfth-Century Epic (The Middle Ages Series) - Hardcover

Châtillon, Walter Of

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ISBN 10: 0812233476 ISBN 13: 9780812233476

Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996

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

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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. 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.

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• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1996
• ISBN 10: 0812233476
• ISBN 13: 9780812233476
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Anzahl der Seiten: 246