Étienne de Rouen (died ), also Stephen of Rouen and , was a Norman

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monk of

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of the twelfth century, and a chronicler and poet. The dukes of Normandy commissioned and inspired epic literature to record and legitimise their rule, and

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and Stephen were among those who wrote in their service. Stephen is known for his Latin verse chronicle ("Standard of the Normans"), a chronicle running from the eleventh century to 1169; it draws on Dudo of St. Quentin and

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.: Poetically it is supposed that he was influenced by the ''Ilias'' of

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. Stephen's work includes an elegy addressed to Waleran, Earl of Worcester, and he also made an abridgement of

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.Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance, by Donald Lemen Clark, Ph.D
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References

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

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