The Alexandreis of Walter of Chatilon A Telfth-Century Epic [Hardcover]

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.

While theAlexandreisdid much to shape the medieval attitude to history, this translation helps to define it. —Times Literary Supplement

Ackowledgments
Introduction
Select Bibliography

The Alexandreis
Prologue
Book One
Book Two
Book Three
Book Four
Book Five
Book Six
Book Seven
Book Eight
Book Nine
Book Ten

Notes
Index of Proper Names