Serlo of Wilton
Serlo of Wilton | |
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Born | c. 1105 Wilton |
Died | 1181 L'Aumône Abbey |
Occupation | Writer |
Serlo of Wilton (c. 1105–1181) was a 12th-century English poet, a friend of
Cluniac and then a Cistercian monk, and in 1171 he became abbot of L'Aumône Abbey, a Cistercian monastery between Chartres and Blois
. He died in 1181.
Serlo's poems are in
Latin, of which the most famous is Linquo coax ranis
.
He is the subject of an 1899 essay by the French author Marcel Schwob, La légende de Serlon de Wilton.
Notes
- De Nugis Curialium2.4.
- ^ Gerald of Wales, Speculum Ecclesiae 2.33.
Bibliography
- Serlon de Wilton. Poèmes latins. Acta Universitatis Stockholmiensis, Studia Latina Stockholmiensia. Jan Öberg (ed.). Stockholm: Almqvist & Wiksell. 1965.
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: CS1 maint: others (link) - Serlo of Savigny and Serlo of Wilton. Seven unpublished works. Cistercian Fathers. Lawrence C. Braceland (ed.), Lawrence C. Braceland (trans.). Kalamazoo, MI: Cistercian Publications. 1987. ISBN 978-0-87907-048-9.)
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: CS1 maint: others (link - Raby, F.J.E. (1957). A history of secular Latin poetry in the Middle Ages (2 ed.). Oxford: Clarendon Press. ISBN 978-0-19-814325-3.
- JSTOR 43629790.
- Thomson, Rodney M. (1999). "Serlo of Wilton and the schools of Oxford". Medium Ævum. 68 (1): 1–12. JSTOR 43630121.