Benoit of Holy-Moor
Benoit of Holy-Moor , Norman poet or tourangeau of the end of the 12th century.
Works
- the Novel of Enéas , French poem a.c. (1160 - 1170), allotted to the author. But this one, applicant to translate Virgile, curtails or even removes the great subjects of the Enéide and imagines between Enée and Lavinie a history of love, pretext of a completely foreign episode of two thousand worms to the principal action. This novel was taken again and translated freely by a German poet, Henri de Veldeke.
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the Novel of Troy (1160 - 1170) dedicated to Aliénor of Aquitaine and probably financed by it. This novel is the principal work treating of the Trojan War with the Moyen-âge. It takes as a starting point translations in Latin of Homère dating from 3rd and 4th century, from which it deviates in particular to follow Darès de Phrygie and Dictys of Crete. This poem was published, with a Étude , by Aristide Jolly (in-4, 1870) and in 1904-1912 by Lépopold Constans ().
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the Estoire of the Dukes of Normandy (1175), ordered by the king of England Henri II, draws his sources of chroniclers such as Guillaume de Jumièges, Guillaume of Poitiers, Dudon of Saint-Quentin and Robert Wace. It adopts Dudon of Saint-Quentin the tripartition of the feudal company. This chronicle was published by Francisque Michel (3 volumes, in-4, 1836-1844).
Sources
- Alexandre Pey, Test on the Novel of Enéas , Paris. 1856, in-8°.
- Emmanuèle Baumgartner, the Novel of Troy , Paris, General union of editions, 1987 ISBN 2264010754
- History of the dukes of Normandy and the kings d' Angleterre , ED. Francisque Michel, New York, Johnson Corp Reprint. 1965
Reference
- Catherine Croizy-Naquet, Thèbes, Troy and Carthage: poetic of the city in the ancient novel with the , Paris; Geneva, Champion; Slatkine, 1994
- Anne Marie Gauthier, Edition and study criticizes cycle of the returns of the Novel of Troy de Benoît of Holy-Moor according to the manuscript Milano, Biblioteca Ambrosiana D 55 sup and six manuscripts of control , Ottawa, National library of Canada, 1999
External bonds
- the Novel of Troy
- Extracts from the prolog of the '' Roman of Troy ''
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