Étienne de Rouen

Étienne de Rouen^[1] (died c. 1169) was a Norman^[2] Benedictine monk of Bec-Hellouin of the twelfth century, and a chronicler and poet. He is known for his Arthurian poem Draco Normannicus (Standard of the Normans), at the same time a chronicle from the eleventh century to 1169; it draws on Dudo of St. Quentin and William of Jumièges.^[3] :Poetically it is supposed that he was influenced by the Ilias of Simon Chèvre d'Or.^[4]

He also made an abridgement of Quintilian.^[5]

References

Henri Omont, editor (1884) Le Dragon normand et autres poèmes d'Étienne de Rouen

Notes

^ Stephen of Rouen, Stephanus de Rouen.
^ PDF p.12.
^ ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
^ [1], in French.
^ Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance, by Donald Lemen Clark, Ph.D

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