The Latin Poems Commonly Attributed to Water Mapes (Classic Reprint) - Softcover

Wright, Thomas

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1331726409 ISBN 13: 9781331726401

Verlag: Forgotten Books, 2018

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The great popular movements in England during the end of the twelfth and the earlier half of the thirteenth centuries, gave rise to a numerous Class of Latin poems of a very peculiar character, re markable chiefly for pungency of satire, or spright liness of composition. The remains of this poetry, which we have long been in the habit of attributing to Walter Mapes, appear to be of sufficient interest and importance to be collected into a volume and prefatory to the poems themselves, it will naturally be expected that we should give some account of the presumed author.

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From that writer we learn that Mapes (or Map, which appears to be the proper orthography of the name), was a great favourite of King Henry II., who esteemed him equally for his extensive learning and for his courtly manners, and that he was one of the ornaments of the court of that monarch. He obtained, by this high favour, various ecclesiastical dignities, being canon of the churches of Salisbury and of St. Paul's in London, præcentor of Lincoln, incumbent of Westbury in Gloucestershire, with many other benefices, and finally archdeacon of Oxford. We learn from Thomas of Walsingham that he obtained this latter dignity in 1197, and he probably held it as well as the parsonage of Westbury to the end of his life. He visited Rome at the time of the great dispute between his friend Giraldus and Hubert Archbishop of Canterbury, relating to the rights of the Church of St. David's.

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Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com

This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

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• Verlag: Forgotten Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
• ISBN 10: 1331726409
• ISBN 13: 9781331726401
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Sprache: Englisch
• Anzahl der Seiten: 427