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Review: Married Life in the Middle Ages
No full textElisabeth van Houts, Married Life in the Middle Ages, 900-1300 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2019). Print. 320 pp., £65 (£42.25 for ebook), ISBN: 9780198798897
Review: Chaucer: A European Life
No full textMarion Turner, Chaucer: A European Life (Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2019). Print. 624 pp., £34 ISBN: 9780691160092
Profile of An Emperor: Reading Vita Karoli Magni in Light of Its Sources and the Socio-political Context of Its Composition
No full textIt has been long pointed out that, in composing of his Vita Karoli Magni, Einhard heavily borrowed from two sources: Suetonius’s De Vita Caesarum, and Annales regni Francorum, especially the second revision. A close reading of Vita Karoli, however, will show that despite Einhard’s dependence on both texts, their distribution within Vita Karoli is quite uneven: Einhard heavily explored Annales regni Francorum for historical details for passages describing Charlemagne’s deeds, whereas he mainly used De Vita Caesarum for his manners and personal life.To find out the reason behind, this paper will treat two key questions: how is Vita Karoli composed? Second and more importantly, why is Vita Karoli composed in this way? To answer the first one, I will first compare the three texts to see what Einhard has adopted and adapted the sources into his own work. Then, in the second part of the paper, I will focus on what he has decided not to include—namely, In this part, I shall focus on two aspects that may have influenced Einhard’s decision: firstly, the changing ideology of kingship under the reign of Charlemagne; and second, the unsettling events under his successor Louis the Pious
Review: Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nation in Early Modern Britain
No full textElizabeth Yale, Sociable Knowledge: Natural History and the Nationin Early Modern Britain (Philadelphia: University of PennsylvaniaPress, 2016). Print, 346 pp., US$69.95/£56.00, ISBN: 9780812247817
Review: How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems
No full textDaniel Donoghue, How the Anglo-Saxons Read Their Poems(Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018). Print, 248pp., US$69.95/£56.00, ISBN: 9780812249941
Review: Boundaries in the Medieval and Wider World: Essays in Honour of Paul Freedman
No full textThomas W. Barton, Susan McDonough, Sarah McDougall, andMatthew Weanovix, eds., Boundaries in the Medieval and WiderWorld: Essays in Honour of Paul Freedman (Turnhout: Brepols,2017). Print, 348pp., £90, ISBN: 9782503568454
More than Roman Salt: Sallust, Caesar and Cato in Twelfth- and Early Thirteenth- Century Moral Thought
Get PDFThis paper examines one of the ways in which the classical historian Sallust was read in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries, and what this reveals about medieval moral thought. In this period, Sallust’s discussion of the character and virtues of Julius Caesar and Cato the Younger became a focus for annotation and commentary. Caesar and Cato were read as the embodiment of contrasting, even opposed, ideas of moral virtue — one liberal and forgiving, the other just and unbending. As medieval commentators recognised, both men embodied Roman virtue, but neither could be straightforwardly imitated. Medieval authors who considered the deeds of these two great Romans were obliged to address how the exercise of virtue was conditioned by circumstance and emphasised the importance of heeding counsel and engaging in debate before taking action. As a result, moral thought in this period can be seen as more contingent and pragmatic and less absolutist than it is sometimes supposed to have been
Review: Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church
No full textRichard Firth Green, Elf Queens and Holy Friars: Fairy Beliefs and the Medieval Church (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2016). Print, 285 pp., US$55.00, ISBN: 9780812248432
Review: Teaching and Learning in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of Gernot R. Wieland
No full textGreti Dinkova-Brunn and Tristan Major, eds, Teaching and Learning in Medieval Europe: Essays in Honour of Gernot R. Wieland, Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 11 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2017) Print, 245 pp., €90.00, ISBN: 9782503568430
Necessary Abuse: The Mirror as Metaphor in the Sixteenth Century
Get PDFMetaphor, or translatio, is one of the most prominent figures in classical and medieval rhetoric, and the late fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries inherited both the sense of its importance, and a complex admixture of attitudes about its cognitive and linguistic functions. This was enabled by the teaching of imitatio (μίμησις), ‘the study and conspicuous deployment of features recognizably characteristic of a canonical author's style or content…’[i], which emphasised intimate knowledge of as large as possible a library of texts.The close analysis involved necessitated memorizing and internalizing a wide variety of authorial models, which makes Renaissance authors ideal for a historical examination of one of the key tenets of an influential modern theory, that metaphor is fundamental to cognition. In this paper I survey some sixteenth-century uses of the metaphor of the mirror for counsel, against the background of Lakoff and Johnson’s ‘invariance principle’.[i] Gian Biagio Conte and Glenn W. Most, ‘Imitatio’, in Oxford Classical Dictionary. Published online Dec 2015. DOI: 10.1093/acrefore/9780199381135.013.3266, [accessed 25 October 2016]