Ovidian Exile in the Letters of Peter of Blois (ca. 1135–1212)
Stephen Hanaphy
The letters of Peter Blois have provided readers with an important insight into issues such as life at the royal courts twelfth century, spirituality a secular cleric, and medieval epistolographical style. They not been studied in any close detail, however, context light they throw on Peter’s use classical Latin text, what references one finds secondary literature to his reading appropriation pagan authors are generally concerned failure emulate contemporary friend John Salisbury. This article demonstrates that knowledge classics was more considerable than traditionally assumed, exile poetry Ovid particular letter-writer language authority upon which base own expression isolation detachment Frenchman living England.
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