Guillaume de Digulleville
Guillaume de Digulleville (* 1295 in Digulleville , † after 1358) was a medieval monk and poet from France .
Everything that is known about Guillaume in terms of biographical data has been derived from his works.
He was the prior of the Cistercian abbey of Chaalis near Senlis (Oise) and the author of influential religious-allegorical poems in the Central French language .
His work Les Pèlerinages , three long poems on the subject of " Homo viator ", the traveler, was famous . In the first poem, Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine , which consists of 13,540 verses, he describes how after reading the rose novel he had a vision that led him on a spiritual journey to Jerusalem .
Works
- Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine (1330–31), second version of this work (1355)
- Le Pèlerinage de l'Âme (1355–58)
- Le Pèlerinage de Jésus Christ (1358)
- Le Roman de la Fleur de lys
Prints, reprints
- Jakob J. Stürzinger (Ed.): Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine . Printed for the Roxburghe Club [by] Nichols & Sons, London 1893.
- Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine. Hendrick Eckert, Delft April 5, 1498. (Reduced copy in: ENGAGEMENT. Journal for Education and Schools. Issue 3, Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2001, pp. 213-218)
literature
- Claus Bernet : The mirror vision of Guillaume de Déguileville. Norderstedt 2015, ISBN 978-3-7386-4602-3 .
- Brigitte Klosterberg: Life - a sin-threatened hike. In: COMMITMENT. Journal for Education and School. Issue 3, Aschendorff Verlag, Münster 2001, pp. 212–222.
- Pilgrimage of the dreaming monk. In: Author's Lexicon . 2nd ed., Volume 7, Col. 683 ff.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Guillaume de Digulleville |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | medieval monk and poet |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1295 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Digulleville |
| DATE OF DEATH | after 1358 |