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epic in elegiac metre, written c. 1250 by Johannes de Garlandia, an English grammarian who taught at the universities of

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. A desultory work, it mentions episodes of the

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(including the

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) alongside events in Johannes' own life, illustrating the details of his affair with a young man from his University, with sketches of some acquaintances including John of London, his teacher at

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; bishop Foulques of Toulouse;

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, a contemporary at

External links

* Full list of contents in the Latin Vicipaedia

References

*''Johannis de Garlandia De triumphis ecclesiae'' ed. Thomas Wright. London: Nichols, 1856.

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*''Two Medieval Satires on the University of Paris: La Bataille des VII Ars of Henri d’Andeli and the Morale Scolarium of John of Garland'' ed. Louis John Paetow. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1927. ife of Johannes de Garlandia 13th-century books in Latin Epic poems in Latin 1250s works {{poem-stub