Medieval Romance of Alexander - The Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the Great Wauquelin JehanPaperback
Medieval Romance of Alexander - The Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the Great Wauquelin JehanPaperback The figure of Alexander the Great haunted the medieval imagination - as much as Arthur, as much…
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Medieval Romance of Alexander - The Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the Great Wauquelin JehanPaperback
The figure of Alexander the Great haunted the medieval imagination - as much as Arthur, as much as Charlemagne. Yet only small sections of the Alexander Romance have been translated into modern French, and Nigel Bryant's is the first translation into English. His story was translated more often in medieval Europe than any work except the Gospels.
The Deeds and Conquests of Alexander the Great is Jehan Wauquelin's superb compendium, written for the Burgundian court in the mid-fifteenth century, which draws together all the key elements of the Alexandrian tradition.With great clarity and intelligence Wauquelin produced a redaction of all the major Alexander romances of the twelfth, thirteenth and fourteenth centuries - including the verse Roman d'Alexandre, The Vows of the Peacock and La Venjance Alixandre - to tell the whole story of Alexander's miraculous birth and childhood, his