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Three Anglo-Norman Kings: The Lives of William the Conqueror and Sons

Three Anglo-Norman Kings: The Lives of William the Conqueror and Sons

Benoit de Sainte-Maure
Short, Ian

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Series: Mediaeval Sources in Translation, Book 57

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ISBN10: 0888443072
ISBN13: 9780888443076
Publisher: Pontifical Inst Of Medieval St
Published: Jun 15 2018
Pages: 236
Weight: 0.85
Height: 0.70 Width: 6.00 Depth: 8.90
Language: English

Best known as a Medieval French romance writer, Benoit de Sainte-Maure was the author of the pioneering and widely copied Roman de Troie, composed, it is thought, around 1165. This consisted of a 30,000-verse reworking, in twelfth-century terms, of Latin narratives purporting to describe the siege of Troy, enlivened by what the poet refers to as bons dits (apposite amplifications). All that is known of him, apart from what can be deduced from his two works, is that he was a learned monk from the region of Tours in North-West France. His reputation as a poet must have reached the ears of Henry II who, sometime in the 1170s, commissioned him to compose a verse history of the English king's Norman ancestors. Benoit thus found himself successor to the Norman historiographer Wace whose vernacular French Roman de Rou, named after Normandy's founder Rollo, was abandoned in favour of Benoit's Histoire des ducs de Normandie.

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