Johannes de Hauvilla, Winthrop Wetherbee (Translator, Editor)
Johannes de Hauvilla, "Architrenius".
Cambridge University Press, 1994. Cambridge medieval classics, 3. 0521405432 xxxii/276 pages.
Volume, measuring approximately 5.75" x 9", is bound in red cloth, with stamped gilt lettering to spine and front cover. Black compartment with stamped silver letttering and borders appears on front cover. Book is new, still in shrinkwrap.
"The "Architrenius" is a vivacious and influential Latin satirical poem in nine books dating from 1184. It describes the journey of a young man (the "Arch-Weeper") on the threshold of maturity, confronting the ills of the church, the court, and the schools of late twelfth-century Europe. Dramatizing the human tendency towards vice and the vanity of worldly things, the poem is full of social commentary and flights of brilliant description."