- Étienne de Rouen
Étienne de Rouen [Stephen of Rouen, Stephanus de Rouen.] (died c.1169)was a Norman [ [http://cf.hum.uva.nl/~eurstu/pdf/wpesa3.pdf PDF] p.12.]
Benedictine monk ofBec-Hellouin of thetwelfth century , and a chronicler and poet. He is known for hisArthurian poem "Draco Normannicus" (Standard of the Normans), at the same time a chronicle from the eleventh century to 1169; it draws onDudo of St. Quentin andWilliam of Jumièges . [ [http://www.the-orb.net/rolls.html ORB: The Online Reference Book for Medieval Studies ] ] :Poetically it is supposed that he was influenced by the "Ilias" ofSimon Chèvre d'Or . [ [http://theses.enc.sorbonne.fr/document1098.html] , in French.]He also made an abridgement of
Quintilian . [ [http://www.mirrorservice.org/sites/ftp.ibiblio.org/pub/docs/books/gutenberg/1/0/1/4/10140/10140-h/10140-h.htm Rhetoric and Poetry in the Renaissance, by Donald Lemen Clark, Ph.D ] ]References
*Henri Omont, editor (1884) "Le Dragon normand et autres poèmes d'Étienne de Rouen"
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