Roman Epic more books like this

by Anthony J Boyle

Roman epic lays firm claim to being western civilisation's prime literary form. Roman Epic draws together 14 critically and methodologically distinct essays, focusing on particular epicists, their reaction to, influence on, and rewriting of each other. The book examines the formation and transformation of Roman epic from its beginnings in the ...

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The Historia Vie Hierosolimitane of Gilo of Paris and a Second, Anonymous Author more books like this

by Siberry Grocock, Gilo, Gilo of Paris

This book is the first critical edition of the Latin poem Historia Vie Hierosolimitane by Gilo of Paris and a second anonymous author, translated for the first time into English and provided with a detailed historical and linguistic commentary. The poem illustrates how quickly a theological and cultural understanding of the first crusade developed ...

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Latin Epics of the New Testament: Juvencus, Sedulius, Arator more books like this

by Roger P H Green

Latin Epics of the New Testament is about the growth of Christianity, and in particular the challenge of engaging with the Roman intellectual elite and its highly sophisticated Graeco-Roman tradition. In this culture epics like those of Vergil and Lucan were highly valued for their language, their 'heroic' themes, and their Rome-centred ideologies ...

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The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic more books like this

by Walter of Chatillon, David Townsend (Translator), Walter

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 ...

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Waltharius, and Ruodlieb more books like this

by Dennis M Kratz, Ph.D.

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Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis Epic (Pjml 2) more books like this

by Maura K Lafferty

The 12th-century epic Alexandreis recounts the life of Alexander but instead of recalling his glorious deeds and his emulation of Achilles, Walter of Chatillons' widely read poem focuses on Alexander's mortality and the rapid decline of his empire. Originally a thesis, this detailed study explores Walter's Christian use of the Classical epic genre ...

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An Epitome of Biblical History more books like this

by David Townsend (Translator)

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Anticlaudianus the Good and Perfect Man more books like this

by Alanus, James J Sheridan (Translator)

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Ruodlieb more books like this

by C W Grocock (Editor)

The Ruodlieb, an anonymous narrative poem dating from the 11th century, is widely acknowledged to be one of the most interesting pieces of latin literature to have survived from the Middle Ages, albeit in a fragmentary state. The poem describes the fortunes of a young knight in a foreign country and on his return home, embodies many features both ...

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Hrotsvit of Gandersheim: A Florilegium of Her Works more books like this

by Katharina Wilson (Translator), Hrotsvitha

Hrotsvit of Gandersheim (c.935 - c.975), almost certainly of noble Saxon parentage, was a canoness of the Saxon imperial abbey of Gandersheim, living and working there during its time of greatest material prosperity and cultural and intellectual pre-eminence. Her importance cannot be overestimated: she is the first poet of Saxony; the first known ...

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Ruodlieb more books like this

by Benedikt Konrad Vollmann

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Le Conventum (Vers 1030): Un Precurseur Aquitain Des Premieres Epopees more books like this

by George Beech

Les historiens de la feodalite connaissent depuis longtemps cet etrange document, ce Conventum des environs de 1030, qui raconte les souffrances de Hugues de Lusignan, maltraite par son suzerain Guillaume de Poitiers. A la fin Hugues declare solennellement a son superieur quil lui rend sa foi et hommage. Le Comte de Poitiers, qui se trouve a ce ...

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Karolus Magnus : alter Aeneas, alter Martinus, alter Iustinus : zur Intention und Datierung des "Aachener Karlsepos" more books like this

by Christine Ratkowitsch

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Das Menschen- und Herrscherbild des Rex maior im "Ruodlieb" : Studien zur Ethik und Anthropologie im "Ruodlieb" more books like this

by Christian Götte

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Walter of Châtillon's "Alexandreis" book 10 : a commentary more books like this

by Glynn Meter

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Maphaeus Vegius His more books like this

by Maffeo Vegio, Brinton

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Der prägende Einfluss des antiken Epos auf die "Alexandreis" des Walter von Châtillon more books like this

by Otto Zwierlein

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Ligurinus more books like this

by von Pairis Gunther, Erwin Assmann

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Die Borsias Des Tito Strozzi: E. Lat. Epos D. Renaissance more books like this

by Tito Vespasiano Strozzi

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