Walter Of Chatillons Alexandreis

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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 : Walter (of Châtillon)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 278 pages
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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 : Glynn Meter
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.51/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Walter of Châtillon's "Alexandreis" Book 10 written by Glynn Meter and published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften. This book was released on 1991 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The final and most important book of Walter of Ch'tillon's Alexandreis is examined as a paradigm for both the compositional techniques and the meaning of the whole poem. These techniques are shown as being reliant on the medieval arts of composition, the strategies inherited from the Biblical paraphrasts and the strict discipline of classical epic hexameter. The author shows that Walter of Ch'tillon is not simply a classicising epigone of Vergil, but a master poet refining contemporary epic techniques and incorporating scientific and philosophic materials into an elegant moral diatribe against arrogance.

Author : David Townsend
Publisher : PIMS
ISBN 13 : 9780888444806
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.0X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Epitome of Biblical History written by David Townsend and published by PIMS. This book was released on 2008 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An epic of some 5500 lines on the life of Alexander the Great, Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis stood, from the late twelfth century till the close of the Middle Ages, among the most successful and widely read works of Latin literature. This volume presents one free-standing version of the more or less 'standard' commentary on a uniquely celebrated passage from the poem. The lines in question, 176-274 of Book 4, describe a tomb commissioned by Alexander for the wife of Darius, after her death in captivity to the Greek commander. The painter Apelles devises for the tomb an iconographical schema largely devoted to rehearsal of the Hebrew Scriptures. The commentary elucidates Walter's compressed biblical references to the fictive tomb's illustrative cycle through extensive paraphrase of episodes from the Hebrew Bible.

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.

Author : David Townsend
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781771103374
Total Pages : 93 pages
Book Rating : 4.7X/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Epitome of Biblical History written by David Townsend and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 : 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 : David Townsend
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812234404
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Tongue of the Fathers written by David Townsend and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998-05-29 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Although historians and scholars of vernacular medieval literatures have increasingly focused on constructions of gender, sex, and sexuality, specialists in medieval Latin have been largely isolated from such developments. Much scholarship on medieval Latin has remained grounded in the methodologies of the "old" philology. When readers from other disciplines have looked to Latin texts they have, in turn, used them mostly as benchmarks against which to measure the innovations of the vernacular. The Tongue of the Fathers forges a stronger and more productive relationship between medieval Latin and gender studies. David Townsend, Andrew Taylor, and their collaborators focus on the representations and constructions of gender and sexual difference in a range of texts emerging from the centers of twelfth-century cultural prestige and power. In chapters on Abelard, Heloise, Bernard Silvestris, Hildegard of Bingen, Bernard of Clairvaux, and Walter of Châtillon, they consider, on the one hand, the ways twelfth-century Latin texts constituted Latin as a monologic tongue in support of patriarchy, and, on the other, the sites of resistance offered by the texts to the very ideologies they ostensibly supported.

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.