Serlo of Wilton

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Serlo of Wilton was a 12th century English poet, a friend of Walter Map^[1] and known to Gerald of Wales.^[2] He studied and taught at the University of Paris. He became a Cluniac and then a Cistercian monk, and in 1171 he became abbot of L'Aumône; he died in 1181. His poems are in Latin.

He is the subject of an 1899 essay by the French author Marcel Schwob, La légende de Serlon de Wilton.

[edit] Notes

1. ^ Walter Map, De Nugis Curialium 2.4.
2. ^ Gerald of Wales, Speculum Ecclesiae 2.33.

[edit] See also

• Linquo coax ranis

[edit] Bibliography

• Serlon de Wilton, Poemes latins ed. Jan Oberg. Stockholm, 1965.
• F. J. E. Raby, A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934. ISBN 0-19-814325-7) vol. 2 pp. 111-115.