Guillaume de Deguileville
Guillaume de Digulleville (* 1295 in Digulleville; † after 1358 ) was a medieval monk and poet from France.
All that is known about Guillaume to biographical information was inferred from his works.
He was Prior of the Cistercian abbey of Chaalis, and author of influential religious and allegorical seals in medium French, famous was his work Les Pèlerinages, three long poems on the theme of " homo viator ," the traveling people.
In the first, Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine, of 13,000 verses, he describes how he had a vision after reading the Roman de la Rose, which led him on a spiritual journey to Jerusalem.
Works
- Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine ( 1330-31 ), second version of this work ( 1355 )
- Le Pèlerinage de l' Âme ( 1355-58 )
- Le Pèlerinage de Jésus Christ ( 1358 )
- Le Roman de la Fleur de lys
- Stürzinger, Jacob J. (ed. ): Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine. London: Printed for the Roxburghe Club [by] Nichols & Sons, 1893.
Le pèlerinage de la vie humaine.