‘Passions and Polemics: Latin and Vernacular Alexander Literature in the Later Twelfth Century’
(2014)
Journal Article
Bridges, V. (2014). ‘Passions and Polemics: Latin and Vernacular Alexander Literature in the Later Twelfth Century’. Nottingham Medieval Studies, 58, 87-113. https://doi.org/10.1484/j.nms.5.103263
This article analyses two poems about Alexander the Great from the 1180s, the Latin epic Alexandreis and the French Roman d’Alexandre, suggesting that they are participating in an ongoing and passionate literary debate about how to perform translatio... Read More about ‘Passions and Polemics: Latin and Vernacular Alexander Literature in the Later Twelfth Century’.