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Studies in the Alexander Romance

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The Alexander Romance, a popular pseudo-history of Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages, greatly influenced French and German literature. David Ross's work clarifies its spread in Latin and Frenc...
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The Alexander Romance, a fabulous pseudo-history of the life of Alexander the Great compiled in late Antiquity, was one of the most popular secular texts in Europe during the Middle Ages. Its subsequent influence on the development of French and German literature has been significant.

Professor Ross was a leading authority on the history and transmission of the Latin and French versions of the Romance, and his work has done much to clarify the spread of the Alexander legend in medieval European literature. This volume brings together all of David Ross's papers on the Alexander Romance, dealing separately with the Latin versions and their French and German reworkings. These include the first publication of a number of original texts in Latin and in German. There is also a valuable section on the development of the accompanying picture-cycle to the Romance, which derives from late-antique sources.
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Price: £75.00
Pages: 420
Publisher: Pindar Press
Imprint: Pindar Press
Publication Date: 31 December 1985
ISBN: 9780907132264
Format: Hardcover
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LITERARY CRITICISM / Medieval, Literary studies: ancient, classical and medieval

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Preface

A new Manuscript of Archpriest Leo of Naples, Nativitas et victoria Alexandri Magni

Letters of Alexander: A new partial Manuscript of the unabbreviated Julius Valerius

A Check-list of three Alexander Texts: the Julius Valerius Epitome, the Epistola ad Aristotelem and the Collatio cum Dindimo

Some unrecorded Manuscripts of the Historia de Preliis

A new Manuscript of the Latin Fuerre de Gadres and the text of Roman d'Alexandre Branch II

The 13 Historia de Preliis and the Fuerre de Gadres

Alexander in the Liber Floridus of Lambert of St. Omer

Parva Recapitulatio. An English Collection of Texts relating to Alexander the Great

Some Notes on the Old French Alexander Romance in Prose (with a Postscript)

A Fifteenth-century Revision of the Old French Prose Alexander

The Printed Editions of the French Prose Alexander Romance

The History of Macedon in the Histoire ancienne jusqu à César

Alexander and the Wonderstone in Le Chevalier Errant

Blood in the Sea: An Episode in Jourdain de Blaivies

An Exemplum of Alexander the Great

Les Trois Grands: A Humanist Historical Tract of the Fifteenth Century

Two new Manuscripts of the Alexander of Ulrich von Etzenbach

Alexander and Antelöis the Dwarf King: a longer Version and a Hebrew Analogue

Nectanebus in his Palace: A Problem of Alexander Iconography

Olympias and the Serpent: The Interpretation of a Baalbek Mosaic and the Date of the Illustrated Pseudo-Callisthenes

The Iconography of the Alexander in Renard le Contrefait

Alexander Iconography in Spain: El Libro de Alexandre,.

Alexander and the Faithless Lady: A Submarine Adventure

Additional Notes

Index