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Walter of Chatillon - The Shorter Poems: Christmas Hymns, Love Lyrics, and Moral-Satirical Verse (Hardcover)
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Walter of Chatillon - The Shorter Poems: Christmas Hymns, Love Lyrics, and Moral-Satirical Verse (Hardcover)
Series: Oxford Medieval Texts
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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.
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