Walter of Chatillon - The Shorter Poems: Christmas Hymns, Love Lyrics, Moral Satirical

Zusatztext This volume will prove a welcome and indeed necessary addition to the library of anyone engaged in the serious study of twelfthcentury rhythmical poetry, and of the literary career of Walter of Châtillon. Professor Traill is to be warmly commended for this present contribution. Informationen zum Autor Born and raised in Scotland, David A. Traill received his M.A. in Classics from St Andrews in 1964 and, after teaching for a year at McGill University, Montreal, went on to study for a Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley. He taught at the University of California, Davis, from 1970 till his retirement in 2012. He is perhaps best known for his biography Schliemann of Troy: Treasure and Deceit (1995) and his role in bringing Schliemann's archaeological reporting into question. Klappentext This volume makes available in English for the first time the shorter poems of an important medieval poet together with an improved Latin text. Scholars of the twelfth century will find a great deal of primary evidence on a wide variety of social and religious issues now accessible to them. Zusammenfassung This volume makes available in English for the first time the shorter poems of an important medieval poet together with an improved Latin text. Scholars of the twelfth century will find a great deal of primary evidence on a wide variety of social and religious issues now accessible to them.

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• Authors: David A. Traill, David A. Traill, Professor Emeritus of Classics David a (Un Traill
• Assisted by: David A. Traill (Editor and translation)
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 07.11.2013
• EAN: 9780199297399
• ISBN: 978-0-19-929739-9
• No. of pages: 466
• Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama > Poetry; Humanities, art, music > History > Middle Ages; History, France, POETRY / General, HISTORY / General, Latin, LITERARY CRITICISM / Poetry, LITERARY CRITICISM / Ancient & Classical, LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, LITERARY CRITICISM / European / French, Medieval History, Literary studies: classical, early & medieval, c 1000 CE to c 1500, Literary studies: poetry & poets, Poetry by individual poets, c 500 to c 1000 CE, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval, Literary studies: poetry and poets