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Fvlcoii Belvacensis Epistvlae

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Marvin L. Colker
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Fulcoius was one of the most distinguished literary figures of the eleventh century, a writer who, in the words of Dom André Wilmart, ‘a laissé des œuvres poétiques assez importantes, encore mal connues.' Apart from the poet's own works, there are three sources of information on his life: the epitaphs in his honor which are found in MS Paris, B.N. lat. 16701; the biographical notice in MSS Beauvais 11 and Paris, B.N. lat. 5305; and references in a letter of St. Bruno, founder of the Carthusians, to Raoul le Verd, provost of the Reims cathedral and future archbishop.

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Traditio , Volume 10 , 1954 , pp. 191 - 273
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1 On Fulcoius and his writings see Histoire littéraire de la France 8 (Paris 1747) 113–120 (= Migne PL 150.1551-1556); Alexandre Olleris, A Monsieur Jos. Vict. le Clerc Lettre sur Fulcoie, archidiacre de Beauvais (Paris 1842); Henri Omont, ‘Épitaphes métriques en l'honneur de différents personnages du XIe siècle composées par Foulcoie de Beauvais, archidiacre de Meaux,’ Mélanges Julien Havet (Paris 1895) 211-219; Max Manitius, Geschichte der lateinischen Literatur des Mittelalters III (1931) 836-840; Boutemy, A. and Vercauteren, F., ‘Foulcoie de Beauvais et l'intérêt pour l'archéologie antique au XIe et au XIIe siècle,’ Latomus 1 (1937) 173-186. Raby, F. J. E. omits all mention of Fulcoius in A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages (Oxford 1934) and in A History of Christian Latin Poetry from the Beginnings to the Close of the Middle Ages (Oxford 1927, 2nd ed. Oxford 1953). Trask, W. R., in translating from Curtius, E. R., calls the poet ‘Fulco’ instead of Fulcoius: European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages (New York 1953) 199 n. 28, 626.Google Scholar

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