The Alexandreis

Author : Walter Chatillon
Publisher : Broadview Press
ISBN 13 : 1770480676
Total Pages : 283 pages
Book Rating : 4.74/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alexandreis written by Walter Chatillon and published by Broadview Press. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 283 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter of Châtillon’s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great was a twelfth- and thirteenth-century “best-seller:” scribes produced over two hundred manuscripts. The poem follows Alexander from his first successes in Asia Minor, through his conquest of Persia and India, to his progressive moral degeneration and his poisoning by a disaffected lieutenant. The Alexandreis exemplifies twelfth-century discourses of world domination and the exoticism of the East. But at the same time it calls such dreams of mastery into question, repeatedly undercutting as it does Alexander’s claims to heroism and virtue and by extension, similar claims by the great men of Walter’s own generation. This extraordinarily layered and subtle poem stands as a high-water mark of the medieval tradition of Latin narrative literature. Along with David Townsend’s revised translation, this edition provides a rich selection of historical documents, including other writings by Walter of Châtillon, excerpts from other medieval Latin epics, and contemporary accounts of the foreign and “exotic.”

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Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 1512809470
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Châtilon written by and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 2015-11-10 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Author : Venetia Bridges
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
ISBN 13 : 1843845024
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.27/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Medieval Narratives of Alexander the Great written by Venetia Bridges and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2018 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An investigation into the depiction and reception of the figure of Alexander in the literatures of medieval Europe.

Author : Walter (of Châtillon)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alexandreis written by Walter (of Châtillon) and published by . This book was released on 1986 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : David Zuwiyya
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004211934
Total Pages : 420 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Alexander Literature in the Middle Ages written by David Zuwiyya and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2011-07-27 with total page 420 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on decades of research on Alexander literature from all over the world, this book is bound to become a medievalist's best companion. It studies Alexander romances from the East and the West in literary form and content.

Author : Walter (of Châtillon)
Publisher : Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Editions
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alexandreis written by Walter (of Châtillon) and published by Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Editions. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter of Châtillon’s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great was a twelfth- and thirteenth-century “best-seller:” scribes produced over two hundred manuscripts. The poem follows Alexander from his first successes in Asia Minor, through his conquest of Persia and India, to his progressive moral degeneration and his poisoning by a disaffected lieutenant. The Alexandreis exemplifies twelfth-century discourses of world domination and the exoticism of the East. But at the same time it calls such dreams of mastery into question, repeatedly undercutting as it does Alexander’s claims to heroism and virtue and by extension, similar claims by the great men of Walter’s own generation. This extraordinarily layered and subtle poem stands as a high-water mark of the medieval tradition of Latin narrative literature. Along with David Townsend’s revised translation, this edition provides a rich selection of historical documents, including other writings by Walter of Châtillon, excerpts from other medieval Latin epics, and contemporary accounts of the foreign and “exotic.”

Author : Raymond Smith Willis
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.14/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Relationship of the Spanish Libro de Alexandre to the Alexandreis of Gautier de Châtillon written by Raymond Smith Willis and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004359931
Total Pages : 879 pages
Book Rating : 4.32/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Brill's Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-09-11 with total page 879 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Alexander the Great has something for everyone who is interested in the life and afterlife of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great.

Author : Peter Such
Publisher : Aris and Phillips Classical Te
ISBN 13 : 0856688649
Total Pages : 753 pages
Book Rating : 4.45/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Book of Alexander written by Peter Such and published by Aris and Phillips Classical Te. This book was released on 2009 with total page 753 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Libro de Alexandre is an epic poem about the life of Alexander the Great, written by an anonymous Spanish cleric in the thirteenth century. It is the most substantial poem (and almost certainly the first) composed in the learned cuaderna via verse form and provides a unique insight into the intellectual world from which it sprang. The poem conveys the grim message of Alexander's life, the sense of hubris and the horror of his fall from greatness and world domination to the bleak obscurity of the grave. As well as relaying the story of a great ancient figure, the poet also comments on the society and political situation of early thirteenth-century Spain. The combination of eras makes this poem strikingly representative of its time. Peter Such and Richard Rathbone's edition in the Hispanic Classics series illuminates this substantial and important text, with a wide-ranging introduction, Spanish text with facing-page English translation and notes.

Author : Maura K. Lafferty
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 244 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walter of Châtillon's Alexandreis written by Maura K. Lafferty and published by Brepols Publishers. This book was released on 1998 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Walter of Chatillon, the twelfth-century Latin poet now famed for his satirical lyrics, acquired international renown in the Middle Ages for his epic on Alexander the Great, the Alexandreis. This work did for the Middle Ages what Vergil had done for the Romans, proving the ability of the moderni to rival the ancients in learning and the arts. The Alexandreis immediately joined the Aeneid in the medieval paideia and was read in schoolrooms throughout Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Alexandreis enters into the twelfth-century debate about education. The intellectual world was rapidly changing, as the schools became specialized and professionalized, threatening the hitherto secure position of the liberal arts and Latin literature in the educational curriculum. At the same time, translations from Arabic and Greek, not only of the works of Aristotle, but also of Arabic philosophers, had begun to alter the concerns and methodologies of Western scholars. Theologians increasingly used Hebrew commentaries in their studies of the Hebrew Scriptures. The awareness of the intellectual achievements both of the ancients and of highly-civilized non-Christian contemporary cultures had reached a new peak. Twelfth-century intellectuals were presented with the challenge of assimilating the flow of new works and ideas into western historiography and the Latin world-view. Walter's exploration of the problems of interpretating not only languages, but also the texts, philosophies, religions and literatures of the past, is the subject of this study.