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Saints' Lives, Volume II (Hardcover)
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Saints' Lives, Volume II (Hardcover)
Series: Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library
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The artistry, wit, and erudition of medieval Latin narrative poetry
continued to thrive well into the middle of the thirteenth century.
No better evidence of this survives than in the long and
brilliantly successful career of Henry of Avranches (d. 1262).
Professional versifier to abbots, bishops, kings, and at least one
pope, Henry displays a pyrotechnical verbal skill and playfulness
that rivals that of the "Carmina Burana" and similar collections of
rhymed secular verse. Yet he also stands as self-conscious heir to
the great classicizing tradition of the twelfth-century epic poets,
above all of Walter of Chatillon. Henry entwines these two strands
of his literary inheritance in what might surprise modern readers
as an improbable genre. The bulk of Henry s known output is a
series of versified saints lives, including those of Francis of
Assisi, King Edmund, and Thomas Becket, nearly all of which are
based on identified prose models. These two volumes present most of
his work in the genre, as witnessed in the English manuscript that
remains the linchpin of our knowledge of this remarkable poet s
career."
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