Skip to main content
MEDIUM ÆVUM
user menu 2
  • Donate
  • Join
  • Members
Main navigation
  • About Us
  • Journal
  • Monographs
  • Essay Prize
  • Events
User account menu
Main navigation
  • About Us
    • People
    • Conflict of Interest Policy
    • Constitution
  • Journal
    • For Contributors
    • Get MÆ
  • Monographs
    • Browse / Buy / Download
    • Submit a Proposal
  • Essay Prize
    • Essay Prize Rules
    • Submit your Entry
  • Events
    • Ox. Med. Grad. Conf.
    • Annual Lecture & Gen. Meeting
    • Day Conference
II Samuel
  • Traditionally attributed to the prophet Samuel, with contributions from other authors such as Nathan and Gad.
Notes
Author(s) Title Reference
GLYNNIS M. CROPP FORTUNE AND THE POET IN BALLADES OF EUSTACHE DESCHAMPS, CHARLES D'ORLEANS AND FRANÇOIS VILLON 58/1, p. 125

languages

  • Latin
  • French
  • Italian
  • Old French

works

  • Consolatio Philosophiae
  • Judith
  • De casibus virorum illustrium
  • Discussion avec la Fortune
  • Ballade au nom de la Fortune
  • Roman d' Alexandre
  • II Samuel

people

  • Boethius
  • Alexander the Great
  • Jason
  • Holofernes
  • Jupiter
  • Julius Caesar
  • Pompey
  • Absalom
  • Croesus
  • Arphaxad
  • Perseus

subjects

  • tragedy
  • exempla
  • didactic
  • dialectic
  • transience
  • history
  • Fortune
  • providence
  • inconstancy
  • rhetoric

places

  • France
  • Troy
  • England
  • Rome
  • Pavia
  • Carthage
  • Corinth
  • Bithynia
  • Bethulia
  • Medes
  • Assyrians
  • Trojan army
Main navigation
  • About Us
    • People
    • Conflict of Interest Policy
    • Constitution
  • Journal
    • For Contributors
    • Get MÆ
  • Monographs
    • Browse / Buy / Download
    • Submit a Proposal
  • Essay Prize
    • Essay Prize Rules
    • Submit your Entry
  • Events
    • Ox. Med. Grad. Conf.
    • Annual Lecture & Gen. Meeting
    • Day Conference

(C) MEDIUM ÆVUM / The Society for the Study of Medieval Languages and Literature (SSMLL). The Society is a UK registered charity (no.: 1130022). Address: History Faculty, George Street, Oxford, OX1 2RL. UK. Email: ssmll[at]ox.ac.uk.