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The Alexandreis of Walter of Châtilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic

The Alexandreis of Walter of Châtilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic

Hardcover

Series: Middle Ages

Literary Criticism

ISBN10: 0812233476
ISBN13: 9780812233476
Publisher: Univ Of Pennsylvania Pr
Published: Dec 29 1996
Pages: 248
Weight: 1.05
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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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