The "alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic by

The "alexandreis" of Walter of Chatilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic

Middle Ages

with David Townsend (Translator)

248 pages missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction classics literary medium-paced

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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...

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