Étienne de Rouen

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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]

[edit] References

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

[edit] Notes

  1. ^ Stephen of Rouen, Stephanus de Rouen.
  2. ^ PDF p.12.
  3. ^ ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies
  4. ^ [1], in French.
  5. ^ Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance, by Donald Lemen Clark, Ph.D