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Life: |
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c1370 |
born in the village of Lidgate, Suffolk |
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c1382 |
entered Benedictine Abbey at Bury St. Edmunds as a boy |
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1397 |
ordained priest |
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1421-32 |
prior of Hatfield Broadok, Essex |
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c1420-1430 |
received many commissions for municipal, court and national occasions (laudatory poems, saints' lives etc.) |
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1434 |
returned to Bury St. Edmunds to stay there for the rest of his life died at the abbey, about 79 years old |
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Work: |
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c1408 |
Reason and Sensuallyte (Translation from French) |
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1412-21 |
The Troy Book (Translation from Latin) |
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c1422 |
The Siege of Thebes (Translation from French) |
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c1426 |
The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (Translation from French) |
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1431-38 |
The Fall of the Princes (Translation from French) |
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1400 - 1420 |
The Temple of Glass, The Complaint of the Black Knight; |
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