Johannes De Hauvilla: Architrenius

Klappentext The Architrenius is a vivacious and influential Latin satirical poem in nine books dating from 1184. It describes the journey of a young man (the "Arch-Weeper") on the threshold of maturity, confronting the ills of the church, the court, and the schools of late twelfth-century Europe. Dramatizing the human tendency towards vice and the vanity of worldly things, the poem is full of social commentary and flights of brilliant description. There are characteristic scenes in which a desire that combines prurience with frank sexuality is set against a quasi-religious idealism. The directness with which the poem engages social and psychological problems anticipates the work of the great vernacular writers Boccaccio and Chaucer. Winthrop Wetherbee's prose translation is presented alongside the original Latin, and augmented by an introduction and extensive notes. Zusammenfassung The Architrenius is a vivacious and influential Latin satirical poem dating from 1184. It describes the journey of a young man (the 'Arch-Weeper') on the threshold of maturity. Winthrop Wetherbee's prose translation is presented alongside the original Latin! and augmented by an introduction and extensive notes. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgements; Introduction; Architrenius (Prologue and nine books); Notes to the text; Selected bibliography; Index of names.

Product details

• Authors: Johannes Hauvilla, Johannes de Hauvilla, Johannes
• Assisted by: Winthrop Wetherbee (Editor), Wetherbee Winthrop (Editor)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 17.11.1994
• EAN: 9780521405430
• ISBN: 978-0-521-40543-0
• No. of pages: 312
• Series: Cambridge Medieval Classics; Cambridge Medieval Classics
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Fiction > Narrative literature; English, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, JUVENILE NONFICTION / Language Arts / General, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Educational: English language & literacy, Literary studies: poetry and poets, Educational: First / native language