The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon
A Twelfth-Century Epic
University of Pennsylvania Press
1st Edition
Published on 10. November 2015
248 pages
978-1-5128-0947-3 (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. 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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English
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Pennsylvania
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College/higher education
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978-1-5128-0947-3 (9781512809473)
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David Townsend is Professor of Medieval Studies and English at the University of Toronto.
Content
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
