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.

Info autore

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

Riassunto

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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Henry of Avranches , Henry Of Avranc Henry Of Avranc, Henry, Henry of Avranches
• Con la collaborazione di: David Townsend (Editore), David Townsend (Traduzione), Townsend David (Editore e traduzione)
• Editore: Harvard University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Copertina rigida
• Pubblicazione: 28.04.2014
• EAN: 9780674728653
• ISBN: 978-0-674-72865-3
• Pagine: 304
• Serie: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Librar; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library; Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Librar
• Categorie: Narrativa > Romanzi > Epistole, diari; Scienze umane, arte, musica > Religione / teologia > Altre religioni; RELIGION / Christianity / Saints & Sainthood, Religious & spiritual leaders, Theology, Christianity, CE period up to c 1500, Medieval History, History and Archaeology, HISTORY / Europe / Medieval