The wars of Alexander

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Date:	Vers 1450
Langue:	Anglais
Genre:	Roman
Forme:	Vers
Contenu:	Version de l'histoire d'Alexandre le Grand traduite d'après la rédaction J3 de l'Historia de proeliis Alexandri Magni.
Incipit:	When folk ere festid & fed fayn wald yai here sum farand ying efter fode to fayne yare hert…
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Manuscrits

Dublin, Trinity College Library, 213, f. 27r-66v (D)
Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ashmole, 44, f. 1r-97v (A) [⇛ Description]

Éditions anciennes

Éditions modernes

The Alliterative Romance of Alexander, from the unique manuscript in the Ashmolean Museum, edited by the reverend Joseph Stevenson, Nicol for the Roxburghe Club, 1849, [xi] + 252 p. [GB] [IA]
The Wars of Alexander: an alliterative romance translated chiefly from the Historia Alexandri Magni de preliis. Re-edited from MS. Ashmole 44, in the Bodleian Library, Oxford, and MS. D. 4. 12, in the library of Trinity College, Dublin: by the Rev. Walter W. Skeat, London, Trübner for the Early English Text Society (Early English Text Society. Extra Series, 47), 1886, xxiv + 478 p. [CMEPV] [GB] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]

Traductions modernes

Études

Barron, W. R. J., English Medieval Romance, London et New York, Longman (Longman Literature in English Series), 1987, xiv + 288 p. [IA]
Chism, Christine, « Geography and genealogy in The Wars of Alexander », Alliterative Revivals, Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002, p. 111-154.
Chism, Christine, « Winning women in two Middle English Alexander poems », Women and Medieval Epic: Gender, Genre, and the Limits of Epic Masculinity, éd. Sara S. Poor et Jana K. Schulman, New York et Basingstoke, Palgrave Macmillan (The New Middle Ages), 2007, p. 15-39.
Crawford, Donna, « Prophecy and paternity in The Wars of Alexander », English Studies, 73:5, 1992, p. 406-416.
Hessels, J. H., « The Dublin MS. of the Alliterative Romance of Alexander », Englische Studien, 3, 1880, p. 531-532. [GB] [HT] [IA: ex. 1, ex. 2]
Reicke, Curt, Untersuchungen über den Stil der mittelenglischen alliterierenden Gedichte: Morte Arthure, The Destruction of Troy, The Wars of Alexander, The Siege of Jerusalem, Sir Gawayn and the Greek Knight. Ein Beitrag zur Lösung der Huchown-Frage, Königsberg i. Pr., Hartungsche Buchdruckerei, 1906, [iii] + 87 p. [GB] [IA]
Reiner, Emily L., The Ambiguous Greek in Old French and Middle English Literature, Ph. D. dissertation, University of Toronto, 2008, v + 299 p. [PQ]
Turville-Petre, Thorlac, « Emendation on grounds of alliteration in The Wars of Alexander », English Studies, 61, 1980, p. 302-317.
Turville-Petre, Thorlac, « Editing The Wars of Alexander », Manuscripts and Texts, éd. Derek Pearsall, Cambridge, 1980, p. 143-160.

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