Hue de Rotelande
Hue de Rotelande[1] was an important Cambro-Norman poet writing in Old French at the end of the 12th century.
Life
He was a cleric and a native of Rhuddlan. He wrote in Credenhill, Herefordshire.[2] Gilbert de Monmouth Fitz Baderon, a grandson of Gilbert Fitz Richard, was his patron.
Works
His works are Ipomedon and Protheselaus, two long metrical romances[3] from the 1180s of over 10,000 lines, in octosyllables. The names, at least, were from the mid-century Le Roman de Thèbes; the romances are set in Italy.
Several Middle English translations (Ipomadon, cited as Ippomedon in Thomas Warton, The History of English Poetry) were made[4]
A sixteenth century translation The Life of Ipomydon was made by Robert Copland and printed by Wynkyn de Worde.[5][6]
References
- Article Hue de Rotelande by Keith Busby, p. 461 in Medieval France: An Encyclopedia, editor William Westcott Kibler
- Eugen Kölbing (1889), Ipomedon, in drei Englischen Bearbeitungen
- Franz Kluckow (1924), Hue de Rotelande: Protheselaus
- A. J. Holden (1979), Ipomedon: poème de Hue de Rotelande, fin du XIIe siècle
- A. J. Holden editor, Protheselaus by Hue de Rotelande Anglo-Norman Text Society
- Rhiannon Purdie, editor (2001), Ipomadon
Notes
- ^ Hugues de Rotelande, Huon de Rotelande, Hugues de Rutland, Hugh de Rutland, Hugh of Rutland.
- ^ William Calin, The Exaltation and Undermining of Romance: Ipomedon, in The Legacy of Chrétien de Troyes, edited by Norris J. Lacy, Douglas Kelly, Keith Busby.
- ^ §7. Sources and Subjects. XIII. Metrical Romances, 1200–1500. Vol. 1. From the Beginnings to the Cycles of Romance. The Cambridge History of English and American Literature: An Encyclopedia in Eighteen Volumes. 1907–21
- ^ Jordi Sanchez-Marti,Reconstructing the Audiences of the Middle English Versions of Ipomedon, Studies in Philology - Volume 103, Number 2, Spring 2006, pp. 153-177.
- ^ online text
- ^ Jordi Sánchez Martí, Wynkyn De Worde's Editions Of Ipomydon: A Reassessment Of The Evidence, Neophilologus, Volume 89, Number 1, January, 2005.
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