Architrenius and the life of a 12th-century scholar

One of the biggest weepers of medieval fiction must have been Architrenius, the protagonist of the 12th-century Norman satirist John of Hauville's poem with the same name. Architrenius means 'the Arch-weeper', and one thing he laments is the miserable condition of the scholar of the time. Architrenius went in search of Nature and self-understanding, but…