Henry d'Andeli
Henry d'Andeli was a 13th-century Norman poet notable for his work La Bataille des Vins (English Battle of the Wines),W. W. Kibler ed., Medieval France (1995) p. 842 and for the satirical poem Battle of the Seven Arts.E. Butler, The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature (2013) p. 49 He also wrote Dit du Chancelier Philippe on the subject of his contemporary Philip the Chancellor.
The fabliau Lai d'Aristote, which was formerly ascribed to him, is now thought to be by Henry of Valenciennes.{{cite journal |last1=Zufferey |first1=François |title=Un problème de paternité: le cas d'Henri d'Andeli. II. Arguments linguistiques |journal=Revue de linguistique romane |date=2004 |issue=68 |pages=57–78}}{{cite journal |last1=Zufferey |first1=François |title=Henri de Valenciennes, auteur du Lai d'Aristote et de la Vie de saint Jean l'Évangéliste |journal=Revue de linguistique romane |date=2004 |issue=69 |pages=335–358}}
Battle of the arts
In his mock-epic battle (c1230-50), d'Andeli laments the defeat of rhetoric (represented by Grammar/Orléans) at the hands of Logic/Paris.E. Butler, The Bellum Grammaticale and the Rise of European Literature (2013) p. 47-9 Grammar is forced to flee to Egypt; and Poetry in the person of 'Sir Versifier' to the Loire countryside - d'Andeli predicting that "It will be thirty years before he dares show his face again".Helen Waddell, The Wandering Scholars (1968) p. 141-2
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Further reading
L. J. Paetow trans., The Battle of the Seven Arts (Berkeley 1914
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