About this title: Joseph wrote his epic around the year 1180, and revised it at the court of Henry II of England where he had obtained some sort of post through the influence of his uncle, Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury. The work is one of a series of texts in Latin and Anglo-Norman, apparently commissioned by the King, helping to trace back the Plantagenet line to the Trojans. It is a pendant to the Anglo-Norman Roman de Troie written by Benoit de Sainte-More in the 1160s. Joseph rejected the Vergilian 'medacious poetic' account of the war in favour of the 'historical' narrative of Dares Phrygius, an 'eye ...
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Binding: PAPERBACK
Publisher: Aris & Phillips
Date Published: 2007-01-01
ISBN-13:9780856682957ISBN:0856682950
Description: New. 0856682950 Joseph wrote his epic around the year 1180, and revised it at the court of Henry II of England where he had obtained some sort of post through the influence of his uncle, Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury. The work is one of a series of texts in Latin and Anglo-Norman, apparently commissioned by the King, helping to trace back the Plantagenet line to the Trojans. It is a pendant to the Anglo-Norman Roman de Troie written by Benoît de Sainte-More in the 1160s. Joseph rejected ... read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Aris & Phillips
Date Published: 2007-01-01
ISBN-13:9780856682940ISBN:0856682942
Description: New. 0856682942 Joseph wrote his epic around the year 1180, and revised it at the court of Henry II of England where he had obtained some sort of post through the influence of his uncle, Baldwin, Archbishop of Canterbury. The work is one of a series of texts in Latin and Anglo-Norman, apparently commissioned by the King, helping to trace back the Plantagenet line to the Trojans. It is a pendant to the Anglo-Norman Roman de Troie written by Benoît de Sainte-More in the 1160s. Joseph rejected ... read more
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