The Alexandreis
Walter of Châtillon’s Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great was a twelfth- and thirteenth-century "best-seller:" scribes produced over two hundred manuscripts. The poem follows Alexander from his first successes in Asia Minor, through his conquest of Persia and India, to his progressive moral degeneration and his poisoning by a disaffected lieutenant. The Alexandreis exemplifies twelfth-century discourses of world domination and the exoticism of the East. But at the same time it calls...
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Acknowledgments\ Introduction\ Walter of Chatillon: A Brief Chronology\ A Note on the Text\ The Alexandreis\ Appendix A: Other Works by Walter of Châtillon\ 1. Satirical and Moral Poems\ 2. A Treatise Against the Jews (Tractatus contra Judaeos)\ 3. The Rhythmical Life of Thomas Becket\ Appendix B: Latin Epic of the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries\ 1. Bernard Silvestris, Cosmographia\ 2. Alan of Lille, The Plaint of Nature (De planctu Naturae)\ 3. John of Hauville, The Arch-Lamenter (Architrenius)\ 4. Joseph of Exeter, The Ylias of Dares Phrygius\ 5. Henry of Avranches, The Metrical Life of St. Francis (Vita sancti Francisci)\ Appendix C: The Medieval Alexander Tradition\ 1. Quintus Curtius Rufus, The History of Alexander the Great (Historiae Alexandri Magni)\ 2. The History of Alexanders Battles (Historia de preliis)\ 3. The Letter of Alexander to Aristotle\ 4. Anecdotes of Alexander from John of Salisburys Policraticus\ Appendix D: Twelfth-Century Images of the Foreign, Strange, and Exotic\ 1. William of Tyre, A History of Things Done in the Territories across the Sea (Historia rerum in partibus transmarinis gestarum)\ 2. Gerald of Wales, The Description of Wales (Descriptio Cambriae)\ 3. From Wonders of the East (De rebus in Oriente mirabilibus)\ Select Bibliography\ Index of Proper Names
