Saints' Lives, Volume I: 1 (Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library): Henry of Avranches

by David Townsend (Editor), David Townsend (Editor), Henry of Avranches (Author)

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  2014

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  Henry of Avranches, professional versifier to abbots, bishops, kings, and a pope, displays pyrotechnical verbal skill and playfulness that rivals the Carmina Burana and collections of rhymed secular verse. Yet The Saints' Lives also stands as self-conscious heir to the great classicizing tradition of twelfth-century epic poets.