Chardri (late 12th–early 13th centuries) was an Anglo-Norman poet, probably from western England. [1] His pen name is probably an anagram of Richard. [2]
Three of his poems, all in rhyming octosyllabic couplets, have survived:
- La vie de seint Josaphaz presents Barlaam and Josaphat, a Christianized version of the life of Buddha, 2954 lines [3]
- La vie des set dormanz records the story of the Seven Sleepers of Ephesus, 1898 lines [4]
- Le petit plet, 1780 lines [5]
His work is transmitted in manuscripts alongside The Owl and the Nightingale. [6]
References
- ^ Laïd, Baptiste (2024-03-21). Barlaam et Josaphat, Les sept dormants et Le petit plet (in French). Paris: Honoré Champion. ISBN 9782380960648.
- ^ Cartlidge, Neil (2015). The works of Chardri. Three poems in the French of thirteenth-century England: The life of the seven sleepers, the life of St. Josaphaz and the little debate. Tempe, Arizona: Arizona Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies. ISBN 978-0-86698-513-0. OCLC 900333024.
- ^ Rutledge, Timothy James Stuart (1973). A critical edition of "La vie de seint Josaphaz", a thirteenth-century poem by the Anglo-Norman poet Chardri (PhD thesis). University of Toronto. ProQuest 302690772.
- ^ Merrilees, Brian (1977). La vie des set dormanz. London: Anglo-Norman Text Society. ISBN 0-905474-02-3. OCLC 4008070.
- ^ Merrilees, Brian (1970). Le petit plet. Oxford: Blackwell. ISBN 0-631-11990-6. OCLC 82561.
- ^ Cartlidge, Neil (1997). "The composition and social context of Oxford, Jesus College, MS 29 (II) and London, British Library, MS Cotton Caligula A. ix". Medium Ævum. 66 (2): 250–269. doi: 10.2307/43630065. JSTOR 43630065.
