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Walter Chatillon
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The Alexandreis: A Twelfth-Century Walter Chatillon epub The Alexandreis: A Twelfth-Century Walter Chatillon pdf download The Alexandreis: A Twelfth-Century Walter Chatillon pdf file The Alexandreis: A Twelfth-Century Walter Chatillon audiobook The Alexandreis: A Twelfth-Century Walter Chatillon book review The Alexandreis: A Twelfth-Century Walter Chatillon summary | #2710699 in Books | Broadview Press | 2006-01-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 8.50 x.56 x5.50l,.75 | File type: PDF | 282 pages | ||5 of 5 people found the following review helpful.| A Medieval Gem|By Ileen S.|I was reading this text in Latin for a course. I do like the translation, it doesn't alter the sense of the words, which is always a risk in translations. It also has an appendix with additional works by Walter of Chatillon and the Medieval Alexander tradition as well as other items of interest. Includes footnotes. Written with scholarly dilige||| “In 1996, David Townsend published a very free but also very good verse translation of the Alexandreis by Walter of Châtillon, one of the most influential poems of the ‘Twelfth-Century Renaissance.’ This new volume improves u
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 a...
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