Description
Book SynopsisThe Alexander Romance, a popular pseudo-history of Alexander the Great in the Middle Ages, greatly influenced French and German literature. David Ross's work clarifies its spread in Latin and French versions, featuring unpublished texts and insights on the accompanying picture-cycle.
Table of ContentsPreface
A new Manuscript of Archpriest Leo of Naples, Nativitas et victoria Alexandri Magni
Letters of Alexander: A new partial Manuscript of the unabbreviated Julius Valerius
A Check-list of three Alexander Texts: the Julius Valerius Epitome, the Epistola ad Aristotelem and the Collatio cum Dindimo
Some unrecorded Manuscripts of the Historia de Preliis
A new Manuscript of the Latin Fuerre de Gadres and the text of Roman d'Alexandre Branch II
The 13 Historia de Preliis and the Fuerre de Gadres
Alexander in the Liber Floridus of Lambert of St. Omer
Parva Recapitulatio. An English Collection of Texts relating to Alexander the Great
Some Notes on the Old French Alexander Romance in Prose (with a Postscript)
A Fifteenth-century Revision of the Old French Prose Alexander
The Printed Editions of the French Prose Alexander Romance
The History of Macedon in the Histoire ancienne jusqu à César
Alexander and the Wonderstone in Le Chevalier Errant
Blood in the Sea: An Episode in Jourdain de Blaivies
An Exemplum of Alexander the Great
Les Trois Grands: A Humanist Historical Tract of the Fifteenth Century
Two new Manuscripts of the Alexander of Ulrich von Etzenbach
Alexander and Antelöis the Dwarf King: a longer Version and a Hebrew Analogue
Nectanebus in his Palace: A Problem of Alexander Iconography
Olympias and the Serpent: The Interpretation of a Baalbek Mosaic and the Date of the Illustrated Pseudo-Callisthenes
The Iconography of the Alexander in Renard le Contrefait
Alexander Iconography in Spain: El Libro de Alexandre,.
Alexander and the Faithless Lady: A Submarine Adventure
Additional Notes
Index
