Renaut de Louhans
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Reynaud or Renaut de Louhans or Louens was a Dominican translator from Poligny, in the Kingdom of France, active in the 1330s.[1][2]
Renaut de Louhans O.P. | |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Dominican friar |
| Writing career | |
| Language | Old French |
| Years active | 1330s |
| Period | Late Middle Ages |
| Genre | Dialogues |
| Notable works | Roman de Fortune et de Felicité, Le Livre de Melibee et de Prudence |
Louhans produced Old French translations of Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae , as Roman de Fortune et de Felicité,[3] and of Albertanus of Brescia's Liber consolationis et consilii, as Le Livre de Melibee et de Prudence.[4]
His Livre de Melibee et de Prudence, was copied into The Book of the Knight of the Tower and inspired Geoffrey Chaucer's "The Tale of Melibee".[5]
