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Saints' Lives

by Henry of Avranches

  • Hardback
  • 350 pages
  • Publisher: Harvard University Press
  • 14.2 x 20.3 x 2.2 cm

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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. Modern readers may be all the more surprised to learn that he synthesizes these two strands of his literary inheritance in what they might imagine would be the most improbable of genres. The bulk of Henry's known output is a series of versified saints' lives, 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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  • Author

    Henry of Avranches

  • Book Format

    Hardback

  • Publisher

    Harvard University Press

  • Published

    April 2014

  • Weight

    459g

  • Page Count

    350

  • Dimensions

    14.2 x 20.3 x 2.2 cm

  • ISBN

    9780674051287

  • ISBN-10

    0674051289

  • Eden Code

    4267336

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