The Alexandreis of Walter of Châtilon: A Twelfth-Century Epic

Written sometime in the 1170s, Walter of Chatillon's Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great loomed as large on literary horizons as the works on Jean de Meun, Dante, or Boccaccio. Within a few decades of its composition, the poem had become a standard text of the literary curriculum. Virtually all authors of the thirteenth through fifteenth centuries knew the poem. And an extraordinary two hundred surviving manuscripts, elaborately annotated, attest both to the popularity of the Alexandreis and to the care with which it was read by its medieval audience.

Author: David Townsend
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Published: 12/29/1996
Pages: 248
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.05lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.20w x 0.80d
ISBN: 9780812233476

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