Saints'' Lives

Henry of Avranches, professional versifier to abbots, bishops, kings, and a pope, displays pyrotechnical verbal skill and playfulness that rivals the Carmina Burana and collections of rhymed secular verse. Yet The Saints' Lives also stands as self-conscious heir to the great classicizing tradition of twelfth-century epic poets.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

David Townsend is Professor of Medieval Studies and English at the University of Toronto.

Zusammenfassung

Henry of Avranches, professional versifier to abbots, bishops, kings, and a pope, displays pyrotechnical verbal skill and playfulness that rivals the Carmina Burana and collections of rhymed secular verse. Yet The Saints' Lives also stands as self-conscious heir to the great classicizing tradition of twelfth-century epic poets.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Henry of Avranches , Henry, Henry of Avranches
• Mitarbeit: David Townsend (Herausgeber), David Townsend (Übersetzung), Townsend David (Herausgeber und Übersetzung)
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.04.2014
• EAN: 9780674051287
• ISBN: 978-0-674-05128-7
• Seiten: 352
• Serien: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Librar; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Librar
• Themen: Belletristik > Erzählende Literatur > Briefe, Tagebücher; Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Mittelalter; RELIGION / Christianity / Saints & Sainthood, Religious & spiritual leaders, Theology, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval