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PublisherOxford University Press, Incorporated

ISBN-100199297398

ISBN-139780199297399

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Book TitleWalter of Chatillon : the Shorter Poems: Christmas Hymns, Love Lyrics, and Moral-Satirical Verse

Number of Pages368 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2014

TopicMedieval, General

GenrePoetry

AuthorDavid A. Traill

Book SeriesOxford Medieval Texts

FormatHardcover

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Item Height1.3 in

Item Weight24.6 Oz

Item Length8.5 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

ReviewsThis 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 Chtillon. Professor Traill is to be warmly commended for this present contribution.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal871.03

Table Of ContentIntroduction1. The Author2. The Poems in this CollectionThe St Omer collectionStrecker's moral-satirical collectionWilmart's attributionsArundel collectionOther attributionsArrangement of the poems3. Metre4. Manuscripts5. Recurring ThemesFeast of FoolsAuaritia and largitas6. On Texts and Translations7. Introductory Notes to Individual PoemsList of SiglaTexts and Translations1. The St Omer Collection: poems 1-332. Poems from various sources: poems 34-67Appendices:1. A and B (two medleys)2. Textual Notes

SynopsisThis 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., Walter of Ch'tillon was one of the leading Medieval Latin poets, who flourished at the high point of Medieval Latin literature - the later twelfth century. This volume presents the Latin text and facing English translation of Walter's shorter poems, including love poems, satires, and (largely Christmas) hymns. His satirical poems, often written in Goliardic hexameters, of which he was an accomplished master, are fine examples of the form. The allusiveness of his hymns makes them often notoriously difficult, but they provide a fascinating insight into the mindset of the clergy of the time and the prevalence of allegorical interpretation of the Bible.This volume provides an outline of the author's life, and adds a further fifteen poems to the previously accepted canon of fifty-two poems which appear in earlier editions of Walter of Ch'tillon's poetry. The introduction discusses the attribution of the additional poems, Walter's use of rhythmical and metrical verse in these poems, the relevant manuscripts, the recurring themes of the Feast of Fools, and avarice and largesse, and the arrangement of the poems. 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., Walter of Chatillon was one of the leading Medieval Latin poets, who flourished at the high point of Medieval Latin literature - the later twelfth century. This volume presents the Latin text and facing English translation of Walter's shorter poems, including love poems, satires, and (largely Christmas) hymns. His satirical poems, often written in Goliardic hexameters, of which he was an accomplished master, are fine examples of the form. The allusiveness of his hymns makes them often notoriously difficult, but they provide a fascinating insight into the mindset of the clergy of the time and the prevalence of allegorical interpretation of the Bible. This volume provides an outline of the author's life, and adds a further fifteen poems to the previously accepted canon of fifty-two poems which appear in earlier editions of Walter of Chatillon's poetry. The introduction discusses the attribution of the additional poems, Walter's use of rhythmical and metrical verse in these poems, the relevant manuscripts, the recurring themes of the Feast of Fools, and avarice and largesse, and the arrangement of the poems. 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.

LC Classification NumberPA8310.G3A2