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The "Alexandreis" of Walter From Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press epub The "Alexandreis" of Walter From Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press pdf download The "Alexandreis" of Walter From Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press pdf file The "Alexandreis" of Walter From Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press audiobook The "Alexandreis" of Walter From Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press book review The "Alexandreis" of Walter From Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press summary | #4086323 in Books | University of Pennsylvania Press | 1996-12-01 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.02 x.63 x5.98l,1.30 | File type: PDF | 248 pages | ||6 of 6 people found the following review helpful.| If you'd like to go to the source...|By Cinna the Poet|This is a verse translation of Walter's most important work and the only English transl. that's easy to get one's hands on. If you'd like to get the Latin text, the most recent (& supposedly best) edition (there are only two, the other long out of print) is by Marvin L. Colker, who uses the Italian form of Walter's name:|||"While the Alexandreis did much to shape the medieval attitude to history, this translation helps to define it."—Times Literary Supplement|Language Notes|Text: English (translation)| Original Language:
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...
You easily download any file type for your device.The "Alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic (The Middle Ages Series) | From Brand: University of Pennsylvania Press.Not only was the story interesting, engaging and relatable, it also teaches lessons.
