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Alexander’s Gate and the Unclean Nations: Translation, Textual Appropriation, and the Construction of Barriers

open access: yesTranscUlturAl, 2016
The Alexander Romance and the Apocalypse of Pseudo-Methodius deserve a place in any discussion of the impact of the translator’s work on the construction of memory in multicultural societies.
Benjamin Garstad
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The Old Serbian Alexander Romance and the Greek Phyllada

open access: yesColloquia Humanistica, 2014
The paper includes a short introduction and four excerpts from the Old Serbian Alexander Romance translated into Polish by Maciej Falski.   Tekst zawiera krótką prezentację zagadnienia filiacji Opowieści o Aleksandrze w bałkańskiej przestrzeni ...
Krzysztof Usakiewicz
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Suites arcadiennes : le roman sidnéien au-delà de sa fin

open access: yesEtudes Epistémè, 2022
Sir Philip Sidney’s pastoral romance, The Countess of Pembrokes Arcadia (first published in 1590, but which had been circulating in manuscript form for a few years) gave rise to multiple imitations and continuations in seventeenth-century Britain ...
Aurélie Griffin
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The Greek Phyllada and the Old Serbian Alexander Romance

open access: yesColloquia Humanistica, 2015
The Greek Phyllada and the Old Serbian Alexander Romance The texts presents chosen fragments of the Greek "Phyllada", or the story about Alexander the Great, and its Polish translation, with an introduction commenting the relation between the Greek and
Krzysztof Usakiewicz
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The Flying King: the novelistic Alexander (Pseudo-Callisthenes 2.41) and the traditions of the Ancient Orient

open access: yesClassica, Revista Brasileira de Estudos Clássicos, 2020
The story of Alexander’s flight is preserved in early Byzantine versions of the Alexander Romance (codex L, recensions λ and γ) but is already mentioned by Rabbi Jonah of Tiberias (4th century AD) in the Jerusalem Talmud.
Ioannis M. Konstantakos
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The fortunes of Arthur: Malory to Milton [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
This chapter follows the fortunes of Arthur as a figure contested and celebrated in equal measure between Malory's Morte Darthur (1485), and Milton's History of Britain (1670).
Maley, Willy, Swann, Adam
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L’image d’Alexandre le Conquérant chez les chroniqueurs byzantins (VIe-XIIe siècles)

open access: yesKentron, 2001
The chapter devoted to Alexander the Great in Byzantine chronicles usually consists of a juxtaposition of heterogeneous elements : historical data, borrowings from the Alexander Romance, passages drawn from the Judaeo ...
Corinne Jouanno
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Chaucer's Jailer's Daughter [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
textWe know that Shakespeare read Chaucer, but we do not know exactly how he read Chaucer. Established models of source studies require solid "proof," but this paper proposes a more liquid conception of influence that permeates a work in unexpected ways.
Snell, Megan Angela
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Gog and Magog: the renditions of Alexander the Great from the context of different pre-Islamic to Islamic traditions. [PDF]

open access: yesPharos Journal of Theology, 2019
This article follows the one published in Verbum et Ecclesia (Sukdaven & Ahmed, 2017: 1-10) which is associated with the Timbuktu Project at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Dr Maniraj Sukdaven
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On Byzantine origins of figural miniatures of Belgrade Alexandride [PDF]

open access: yesZograf, 2013
The late antique literary biography of Alexander the Great known as Pseudo-Callisthenes’ Alexander Romance was remarkably popular reading both in Byzantium and in the West in the middle ages.
Živković Miloš
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