Chapter 38. The matter of Troy in medieval Latin poetry (ca. 1060 – ca. 1230)

Abstract

The present chapter discusses Latin poems dealing with the Trojan matter from the rise of such poetry around 1060 up to the early 13th century, when poems in the vernacular become dominating. Discussed poets or anonymous poems (in italics) include Wido of Ivrea, Godfrey of Reims, Baudri of Bourgueil, the Deidamia Achilli, the Heu male te cupimus, the Sub uespere Troianis menibus, the Carmina Burana 92, 99–102, the Anna soror ut quid mori, Hugh Primas, Pierre de Saintes, Peter Riga, the Alea fortunae, Simon Capra Aurea, the Altercatio Ganymedis et Helenae, the Causae Aiacis et Ulixis I–II, the Quis partus Troiae and the Bella minans Asiae. A short postface offers a rapid synopsis of the vernacular literature that marks the late Middle Ages.