Johannes de Hauvilla: Architrenius
Johannes de Hauvilla: Architrenius
Winthrop Wetherbee
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USDThe Architrenius is a vivacious and influential Latin satirical poem in nine books dating from 1184. It describes the journey of a young man (the 'Arch-Weeper') on the threshold of maturity, confronting the ills of the church, the court, and the schools of late twelfth-century Europe. Dramatising the human tendency towards vice and the vanity of worldly things, the poem is full of social commentary and flights of brilliant description. There are characteristic scenes in which a desire that combines prurience with frank sexuality is set against a quasi-religious idealism. The directness with which the poem engages social and psychological problems anticipates the work of the great vernacular writers Boccaccio and Chaucer. Winthrop Wetherbee's prose translation is presented alongside the original Latin, and augmented by an introduction and extensive notes.
- The first published translation in any language of an important poem
- A direct satirical address to sexual, social, and psychological issues
- Latin original reproduced alongside spirited modern prose translation
Reviews & endorsements
"This translation performs a useful service. It makes available to the non-Latinist (including the moderately competent Latinist) a poem that enjoyed a surprising popularity. It is not a task that I would have wished to take on myself." Speculum-A Journal of Medieval Studies
Product details
January 1995Hardback
9780521405430
312 pages
224 × 144 × 26 mm
0.56kg
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Table of Contents
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction
- Architrenius (Prologue and nine books)
- Notes to the text
- Selected bibliography
- Index of names.
