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Sehr gutes Exemplar; Barcode-Aufkleber auf dem R�ckdeckel. - Englisch und Lateinisch. - John of Hauville (also known as Johannes de Hauvilla, Joannes de Havillan, Johannes de Altavilla, John of Hauteville, and Jean de Hauteville) was a moralist and satirical poet of the 12th century (flourished about 1184). Little is known of his life, but he was probably French. His sole attributable work is Architrenius (The Prince of Lamentations), a Latin poem in eight cantos. The poem was written in imitation of classical Latin poets, sometimes borrowing whole verses from chosen authors. He dedicated his work to Walter de Coutances, just after Walter had become Archbishop of Rouen (1184). Of John of Hauville's later life nothing is known, except that his pupil, Gervase of Melkley, wrote of him in the past tense in his Ars poetica, written around 1210: John of Hauville was therefore probably dead by then. Architrenius was a great success and was frequently copied and commented on before its first printing in 1517, at Paris, by Jodocus Badius Ascencius. � (wiki, engl.) // "The Architrenius, a narrative satire in nine books and 4361 lines of Latin hexameter, describes the journey of its hero through a world which represents panoramically the ills of Church, court, and schools in the later twelfth century, and offers a remedy for these ills in the form of moral philosophy. Architrenius (the "Arch-Weeper") is a young man on the threshold of maturity who is shocked to find that all his thoughts and impulses, and those of the world around him, tend to vice. Convinced that Nature must be at fault, he resolves to seek out the goddess and confront her with the spectacle of his hapless state. His quest leads him to the court of Venus, the house of Gluttony, the schools of Paris, the palace of Ambition, the mount of Presumption, and the unnamed site of a battle between the army of the generous (led by King Arthur and Sir Gawain) and the forces of Avarice. Eventually he arrives in Tylos, a natural paradise where he encounters the ancient philosophers and receives a long series of brief lectures on vice, the vanity of worldly things, and the need for self-discipline. Finally Nature appears, responds to Architrenius' complaint with a lecture on the order of things, and proposes to remedy his condition by giving him the beautiful maiden Moderation as a bride. The poem ends with the celebration of their marriage. The Architrenius was something new when it appeared toward the end of the twelfth century, but its distinctive features show the effects of developments in western European society over the preceding hundred years. Urban culture, commercial and professional in outlook, had become a steadily more important counterweight to the traditional dominance of aristocratic wealth and privilege. The bureaucratization of government and administration in Church and state had opened new avenues for social advancement and created new functions for educated men. At the same time higher education in the liberal arts had become increasingly the province of cathedral schools located in urban centers. ." (Vorwort) // INHALT : Acknowledgments ------ Introduction ------ ARCHITRENIUS ------ Prologue ------ Book One ------ Book Two ------ Book Three ------ Book Four ------ Book Five ------ Book Six ------ Book Seven ------ Book Eight ------ Book Nine ------ Notes to the text ------ Selected bibliography ------ Index nominum. ISBN 0521405432