The Alexandreis Of Walter Of Chatilon
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The Alexandreis Of Walter Of Ch Tilon
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Author : Walter (of Châtillon)
language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 1996-12-29
The Alexandreis Of Walter Of Ch Tilon written by Walter (of Châtillon) and has been published by University of Pennsylvania Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-12-29 with Literary Collections categories.
David Townsend's translation - the first ever into English verse - affords modern readers a vivid sense of the aesthetic appeal and sophisticated artistry of Walter's poem. A concise introduction sets out the poem's background and significance in literary history, while also suggesting how Walter's text resonates with the literary sensibilities of our own times. Townsend's explanatory notes, adapted in large part from glosses in the surviving manuscripts, allow modern audiences a remarkable glimpse into the ways in which medieval readers of the Alexandreis must have understood the poem.
The Alexandreis
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Author : Walter (of Châtillon)
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1986
The Alexandreis written by Walter (of Châtillon) and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1986 with Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) categories.
The Alexandreis Of Walter Of Ch Tilon
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language : en
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Release Date : 2015-11-10
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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.
Walter Of Ch Tillon S Alexandreis
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Author : Maura K. Lafferty
language : en
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Release Date : 1998
Walter Of Ch Tillon S Alexandreis written by Maura K. Lafferty and has been published by Brepols Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998 with Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) categories.
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.
Walter Of Ch Tillon S Alexandreis Book 10
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Author : Glynn Meter
language : en
Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Release Date : 1991
Walter Of Ch Tillon S Alexandreis Book 10 written by Glynn Meter and has been published by Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1991 with Foreign Language Study categories.
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.
The Alexandreis
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Author : Walter Chatillon
language : en
Publisher: Broadview Press
Release Date : 2006-10-16
The Alexandreis written by Walter Chatillon and has been published by Broadview Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2006-10-16 with Poetry categories.
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.”
Alexandreis
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Author : Walter (of Châtillon)
language : la
Publisher:
Release Date : 1978
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An Epitome Of Biblical History
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Author : David Townsend
language : en
Publisher: PIMS
Release Date : 2008
An Epitome Of Biblical History written by David Townsend and has been published by PIMS this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Literary Collections categories.
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.
An Epitome Of Biblical History
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Author : David Townsend
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2008
An Epitome Of Biblical History written by David Townsend and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008 with Epic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern) categories.
The Representation Of The Body In Twelfth Century Latin Epic Microform The Alexandreis Of Walter Of Chatillon And The Ylias Of Joseph Of Exeter
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Author : Sylvia A. (Syliva Anne) Parsons
language : en
Publisher: Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada
Release Date : 2005
The Representation Of The Body In Twelfth Century Latin Epic Microform The Alexandreis Of Walter Of Chatillon And The Ylias Of Joseph Of Exeter written by Sylvia A. (Syliva Anne) Parsons and has been published by Library and Archives Canada = Bibliothèque et Archives Canada this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2005 with categories.
This dissertation approaches theoretical issues regarding the literary representation of the body through readings of two medieval Latin epics, Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis and Joseph of Exeter's Ylias. I argue that these texts, based on prose histories but shaped by the heritage of classical epic, establish vital aspects of their epic identity through their representations of the body. The first chapter of the thesis studies how implicit or explicit comparisons to the alternate representational mode of the visual arts enable Walter and Joseph to think through the epic task of commemorating the dead, a task which brings the act of representation into dialogue with the destruction of the body. The second chapter deals with the major rhetorical setpieces which both poems feature, in which the literary representation of the body coincides with the social representation of the self in speech. The third chapter addresses the implications of allusion. Through an examination of the workings of this textual device in relation to the body, it considers how the representation of the body involves the reader in the text. The last chapter examines the role of the representation of the body in the larger structure of the poems. I show that Joseph invests the unifying imagery of the Ylias in the bodies of his female characters, while Walter structures his narrative on a competition between narrator and protagonist for control of the poem's epic voice, a contest centered on Alexander's body. The dissertation draws throughout on theoretical literature surrounding the body in relation to gender, violence, and sexuality. I insist, however, that in their unique cultural situation and poetic achievement the Ylias and the Alexandreis are not passive objects of theoretical analysis but vital contributors to our theoretical understanding of the body.