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Walter of Châtillon ( Latinized as Gualterus de Castellione) was a 12th-century French writer and 
Many poems in his style, or borrowing his themes, have been attributed to Walter on insufficient evidence. For example, he was not the author of the satirical '' Apocalypse of Golias'' once attributed to him. In addition to his poems, Walter wrote a dialogue refuting Jewish thought and
''Catholic Encyclopedia: Walter of Chatillon''
* *Online works in Latin
(''Bibliotheca Augustana'')
** ttps://books.google.com/books?id=y-UHL98e8dkC&pg=RA4-PT2 ''Contra Judaeos''br>''De Trinitate''
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theologian
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who wrote in the Latin language
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. He studied under Stephen of Beauvais and at the University of Paris
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. It was probably during his student years that he wrote a number of Latin poem
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s in the Goliardic manner that found their way into the '' Carmina Burana'' collection. During his lifetime, however, he was more esteemed for a long Latin epic on the life of Alexander the Great
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, the '' Alexandreis, sive Gesta Alexandri Magni'', a hexameter
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epic, full of anachronisms; he depicts the Crucifixion
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of Jesus
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as having already taken place during the days of Alexander the Great. The ''Alexandreis'' was popular and influential in Walter's own times. Matthew of Vendôme and Alan of Lille borrowed from it and Henry of Settimello imitated it, but it is now seldom read. One line, referring to Virgil
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's Aeneid
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, is sometimes quoted:
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Many poems in his style, or borrowing his themes, have been attributed to Walter on insufficient evidence. For example, he was not the author of the satirical '' Apocalypse of Golias'' once attributed to him. In addition to his poems, Walter wrote a dialogue refuting Jewish thought and biblical interpretation
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and a treatise on the Trinity
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, and he was possibly the author of '' Moralium dogma philosophorum''. He died of bubonic plague early in the 13th century.
David Townsend summarizes one commentary on Walter's life as follows:
References
* F. J. E. Raby, ''A History of Secular Latin Poetry in the Middle Ages'', Vol. 2, Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1934, , pp. 72–80, 190–204.External links
''Catholic Encyclopedia: Walter of Chatillon''
* *Online works in Latin
(''Bibliotheca Augustana'')
** ttps://books.google.com/books?id=y-UHL98e8dkC&pg=RA4-PT2 ''Contra Judaeos''br>''De Trinitate''
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