The 'Alexandreis' of Walter of Chatilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic (The Middle Ages Series)

Walter of Chatillon, David Townsend

ISBN 10: 0812233476 / ISBN 13: 9780812233476

Published by University of Pennsylvania Press, 1996

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Cloth, dj. Minor shelf-wear.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: The 'Alexandreis' of Walter of Chatilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic (The Middle Ages Series)
• Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
• Publication Date: 1996
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812233476
• ISBN 13: 9780812233476
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Used-Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Seller catalogs:
  • Medieval, Britain & Ireland

About this title

Synopsis

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.

About the Author

David Townsend is Professor of Medieval Studies and English at the University of Toronto.