Author : Thomas Walsingham
Publisher : Durham, N.C. : Duke University Press
Page : 266 pages
File Size : 40,38 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN :
"The Archana deorum of Thomas Walsingham is an early fifteenth-century paraphrase and explication of Ovid's Metamorphoses, introduced by treatises on the natures and iconography of the pagan gods. The text, which apparently survives only in St. John's College (Oxford) MS 124, is here presented in its first edition." -- Introduction.
Author : Thomas Walsingham
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 14,58 MB
Release : 1968
Category : Fables, Latin
ISBN : 9780822301837
Author : Kathryn McKinley
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 223 pages
File Size : 40,66 MB
Release : 2017-09-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9004351019
This study investigates the reception of Ovid's heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written between 1100 and 1618. The Ovidian heroine offers a telling window onto medieval and early modern clerical constructions of gender and selfhood. In the context of classical representations of the feminine, the book examines Ovid's engagement of the heroine to explore problems of intentionality. The second part of the study presents commentaries by such clerics as William of Orléans, the "Vulgate" commentator, Thomas Walsingham, and Raphael Regius, illustrating the reception of the Ovidian heroine in medieval France and England as well as in Renaissance Italy and Germany. The works analyzed here show that clerical readings of the feminine in Ovid reflect greater heterogeneity than is commonly alleged. Both moralizing summaries and Latin editions used as schooltexts are discussed.
Author : Alessandro Barchiesi
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 786 pages
File Size : 31,84 MB
Release : 2023-12-31
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 1009197606
Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology – and will be useful as a teaching aid and an orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem's audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies).
Author : A. Gerber
Publisher : Springer
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 19,59 MB
Release : 2015-03-20
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1137482826
Ovid's Metamorphoses played an irrefutably important role in the integration of pagan mythology in Christian texts during the Middle Ages. This book is the only study to consider this Ovidian revival as part of a cultural shift disintegrating the boundaries between not only sacred and profane literacy but also between academic and secular politics.
Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 771 pages
File Size : 14,31 MB
Release : 2019-11-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1532688911
The mythic world of Juno, Jupiter's consort, is one of flesh and begetting, of suffering and death, and of poetry itself. Exploring the relationship between that realm of the classical gods and the sphere of medieval mythographers, Jane Chance illuminates the efforts of medieval writers to understand human existence and the forces of nature in relation to Christian truth.
Author : John R. Glenn
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 661 pages
File Size : 17,28 MB
Release : 2019-05-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 042968276X
First published in 1987, this is a critical edition of the 1647 text by the Scottish author Alexander Ross which offered the Renaissance reader not only a wealth of factual information concerning the gods, goddesses, heroes and monsters of ancient myth and legend, but also served as a treasury of interpretation and commentary ingeniously explaining the facts in terms moral, theological, historical and scientific.
Author : James G. Clark
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 36,85 MB
Release : 2004-12-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0199275955
A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans is a study of intellectual life - teaching, preaching, the production of books, and the pursuit of scholarship - at one of England's greatest monasteries at the end of the Middle Ages. It has always been assumed that the monasteries fell into decline long before the Dissolution, but this study demonstrates the continuing vitality of education and learning in English cloisters and even uncovers evidence of a revival in Classical studiescomparable to the continental Renaissance.
Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 699 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1532688970
With this volume, Jane Chance concludes her monumental study of the history of mythography in medieval literature. Her focus here is the advent of hybrid mythography, the transformation of mythological commentary by blending the scholarly with the courtly and the personal. No other work examines the mythographic interrelationships among these poets and their unique and personal approaches to mythological commentary.
Author : Jane Chance
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 545 pages
File Size : 16,57 MB
Release : 2019-11-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1532688946
The second volume in Jane Chance’s study of the history of medieval mythography from the fifth through fifteenth centuries focuses on the time period in Western Europe between the School of Chartres and the papal court at Avignon. This examination of historical and philosophical developments in the story of mythography reflects the ever-increasing importance of the subjectivity of the commentator. Through her vast and wide-ranging familiarity with hitherto seldom studied primary texts spanning nearly one thousand years, Chance provides a guide to the assimilation of classical myth into the Christian Middle Ages. Rich in insight and example, dense in documentation, and compelling in its interpretations, Medieval Mythography is an important tool for scholars of the classical tradition and for medievalists working in any language.
