Download or read book The Relationship of the Spanish Libro de Alexandre to the Alexandreis of Gautier de Chatillon written by Raymond Smith Willis and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Relationship of the Spanish Libro de Alexandre to the Alexandreis of Gautier de Chatillon written by Raymond Smith Willis and published by . This book was released on 1934 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Medieval French Roman D Alexandre written by Milan Sylvanus La Du and published by . This book was released on 1937 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book El Libro de Alexandre written by Raymond S. Jr Willis and published by . This book was released on 1965 with total page 461 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book The Alexandreis written by Walter (of Châtillon) and published by Peterborough, Ont. : Broadview Editions. This book was released on 2006-10-16 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 and the exoticism of the East. But at the same time it calls such dreams of mastery into question, repeatedly undercutting as it does Alexander’s claims to heroism and virtue and by extension, similar claims by the great men of Walter’s own generation. This extraordinarily layered and subtle poem stands as a high-water mark of the medieval tradition of Latin narrative literature. Along with David Townsend’s revised translation, this edition provides a rich selection of historical documents, including other writings by Walter of Châtillon, excerpts from other medieval Latin epics, and contemporary accounts of the foreign and “exotic.”