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HERMAN DE VALENCIENNES

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Originally appearing in Volume V13, Page 366 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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VALENCIENNES , 12th-See also:century See also:French poet, was See also:born at Valenciennes, of See also:good parentage. His See also:father and See also:mother, See also:Robert and Herembourg, belonged to Hainault, and gave him for See also:god-parents See also:Count See also:Baldwin and Countess Yolanddoubtless Baldwin IV. of Hainault and his mother Yoland. Herman was a See also:priest and the author of a See also:verse Histoire de la See also:Bible, which includes a See also:separate poem on the See also:Assumption of the Virgin. The See also:work is generally known as Le See also:Roman de sapience, the name arising from a copyist's See also:error in the first See also:line of the poem: " Comens de sapiense, ce est la cremors de Deu the first word being miswritten in one MS. Romens, and in another Romanz. His work has, indeed, the See also:form of an See also:ordinary See also:romance, and cannot be regarded as a See also:translation. He selects such stories from the Bible as suit his purpose, and adds freely from legendary See also:sources, displaying considerable See also:art in the selection and use of his materials. This scriptural poem, very popular in its See also:day, mentions See also:Henry II. of See also:England as already dead, and must therefore be assigned to a date posterior to 1189. See Notices et extraits See also:des manuscrits (See also:Paris, vol. 34), and" See also:Jean Bonnard, See also:Les Traductions de la Bible en vers frangais au moyen See also:age (1884).

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