Life:

 

c1370

born in the village of Lidgate, Suffolk

c1382

entered Benedictine Abbey at Bury St. Edmunds as a boy

1397

ordained priest

1421-32

prior of Hatfield Broadok, Essex

c1420-1430

received many commissions for municipal, court and national occasions (laudatory poems, saints' lives etc.)

1434

returned to Bury St. Edmunds to stay there for the rest of his life died at the abbey, about 79 years old

 

 

Work:

 

c1408

Reason and Sensuallyte (Translation from French)

1412-21

The Troy Book (Translation from Latin)

c1422

The Siege of Thebes (Translation from French)

c1426

The Pilgrimage of the Life of Man (Translation from French)

1431-38

The Fall of the Princes (Translation from French)

1400 - 1420

The Temple of Glass, The Complaint of the Black Knight;
The Flower of Courtesy;
lyrics, occasional pieces, saints' lives
and versions of Aesop's Fables

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