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Foreword [to Latin literatures of medieval and early modern times in Europe and beyond: a millennium heritage]
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Latin literatures of medieval and early modern times in Europe and beyond: a millennium heritage
No full textThe textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new perspective, making available to specialists (but also to the interested public) new materials and insights. The project presents an overview of Medieval (and post-medieval) Latin Literatures as a global phenomenon including both Europe and extra-European regions. It serves as an introduction to medieval Latin's complex and multi-layered culture, whose attraction has been underestimated until now. Traditional overviews mostly flatten specificities, yet in many countries medieval Latin literature is still studied with reference to the local history. Thus the first section presents 20 regional surveys, including chapters on authors and works of Latin Literature in Eastern, Central and Northern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Subsequent chapters highlight shared patterns of circulation, adaptation, and exchange, and underline the appeal of medieval intermediality, as evidenced in manuscripts, maps, scientific treatises and iconotexts, and its performativity in narrations, theatre, sermons and music. The last section deals with literary “interfaces,” that is motifs or characters that exemplify the double-sided or the long-term transformations of medieval Latin mythologemes in vernacular culture, both early modern and modern, such as the legends about King Arthur, Faust, and Hamlet
The Battle of Vouillé, 507 CE
Get PDFThis volume highlights the heretofore largely neglected Battle of Vouillè in 507 CE, when the Frankish King Clovis defeated Alaric II, the King of the Visigoths. Clovis` victory proved a crucial step in the expulsion of the Visigoths from Francia into Spain, thereby leaving Gaul largely to the Franks. It was arguably in the wake of Vouillè that Gaul became Francia, and that "France began." The editors have united an international team of experts on Late Antiquity and the Merovingian Kingdoms to reexamine the battle from multiple as well as interdisciplinary perspectives. The contributions address questions of military strategy, geographical location, archaeological footprint, political background, religious propaganda, consequences (both in Francia and in Italy), and significance. There is a strong focus on the close reading of primary source-material, both textual and material, secular and theological
A translation and commentary on Claudius Marius Victor's Alethia 3.1-326
Get PDFOf all the Biblical epics that survive from antiquity, Claudius Marius Victor’s Alethia, a poem based on Genesis and written in Gaul in the fifth century, is one of the more obscure and difficult. The poem was never part of the medieval curriculum and has attracted little interest until recently. This dissertation focuses on Alethia 3.1-326. In this part of the Alethia, Victor describes life after the Flood. After Noah’s death, the poet inserts a long, extrabiblical digression on the gradual corruption of knowledge, the development of mantic and magic arts, and (with the exception of the Jews), mankind’s descent into idolatry. There follows God’s punishment at Babel and, finally, the Jews’ embrace of idolatry.
Chapter 1 provides an introduction to the poem, Chapter 2 marshals the meager biographical evidence of the Alethia’s author; Chapter 3 treats the manuscript and printed editions of the Alethia; Chapter 4 is an excursus on the complicated history of the 16th century editions of Jean de Gagny and Guillaume Morel and includes an analysis of Gagny’s rewriting of the text; and Chapter 5 describes Victor’s poetic style.
Chapter 6 presents the Latin text and apparatus of Alethia 3.1-326. It is based on P.F. Hovingh’s Corpus Christianorum Series Latina edition of 1960. I have only lightly revised it. An English translation of Alethia, 3.1-326 follows. Chapter 7 is a commentary on textual, philological, and exegetical matters.Submission published under a 24 month embargo labeled 'Closed Access', the embargo will last until 2017-08-01The student, Daniel Abosso, accepted the attached license on 2015-04-23 at 02:36.The student, Daniel Abosso, submitted this Dissertation for approval on 2015-04-23 at 02:45.This Dissertation was approved for publication on 2015-04-27 at 16:35.DSpace SAF Submission Ingestion Package generated from Vireo submission #8005 on 2015-09-29 at 15:04:57Made available in DSpace on 2015-09-29T21:02:40Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 2
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The Battle of Vouillé, 507 CE
Get PDFThis volume highlights the heretofore largely neglected Battle of Vouillè in 507 CE, when the Frankish King Clovis defeated Alaric II, the King of the Visigoths. Clovis` victory proved a crucial step in the expulsion of the Visigoths from Francia into Spain, thereby leaving Gaul largely to the Franks. It was arguably in the wake of Vouillè that Gaul became Francia, and that "France began." The editors have united an international team of experts on Late Antiquity and the Merovingian Kingdoms to reexamine the battle from multiple as well as interdisciplinary perspectives. The contributions address questions of military strategy, geographical location, archaeological footprint, political background, religious propaganda, consequences (both in Francia and in Italy), and significance. There is a strong focus on the close reading of primary source-material, both textual and material, secular and theological
Resurrections before the Resurrection in the Imaginaire of Late Antiquity
Get PDFThis paper is a study of transformations and mutations of a natural human desire, to be buried in one grave with one’s beloved. Most partners don’t die simultaneously, and burial-practices needed to provide flexibility for the dead and for the living. At the same time, religions had Views about the grave and the afterlife, and about the survival of the individual. Judaism and especially Christianity featured an astonishing doctrine, the Resurrection of the Flesh. Starting from Roman antiquity and in its epitaphic practices, the paper analyzes an intriguing early 4th C. Gallic poem, the Carmen de Laudibus Domini and its account of how the corpse of a dead woman was momentarily reanimated to greet her husband’s corpse. The poem reworks the resurrection of Lazarus with a little help from Juvencus. But a crucial (and unrecognized) source is (perhaps indirectly) Tertullian’s De Anima. These texts somehow generated a Late Antique urban legend about the mini-Resurrections of lovers’ bodies than can be traced into the central Middle Ages and beyond. It proved astonishingly lively and adaptable—to mariages blancs, to homosocial monastic situations, and to grave robbery, to name a few. This deeply sentimental legend needed to elbow aside darker phenomena, charnel (and also erotic) horrors from the pagan past, including zombies, vampires, and revenants, in order to preach its Christian message and help lovers who had been separated by death. Such resurrections were a down-payments on The Resurrection
A commentary on Jerome's Contra Vigilantium
Get PDFInnkeepers inspired this dissertation. After working on ‘innkeepers’ as a topic for a research seminar paper, I soon discovered that the term caupo counted as an insult according to several church fathers, including Jerome. In the Contra Vigilantium, Jerome mocked his enemy, Vigilantius, by calling him a caupo who mixed water with wine; I wondered whether the title was true and the insult was deserved. What remained was to figure out who this man was and why he mattered.
The dissertation is comprised of four parts: introductory chapters, a text with an en face translation, a philological/historical commentary, and an appendix. The first chapter introduces Vigilantius, discusses why a commentary of the Contra Vigilantium is needed, and provides a biography, supported by literary and historical evidence in response to the bolder and more fanciful account of W.S. Gilly. The second chapter treats Vigilantius as an exegete. From a sample of his exegesis preserved in Jerome’s Ep. 61, I determine that Jerome dismissed Vigilantius’ exegesis because he wanted to protect his own orthodoxy. The third chapter situates Vigilantius in the debate on relic worship. His position is valuable because he opposed most of his contemporaries, decrying relics instead of supporting their translation and veneration.
The Latin text and format are taken from Jean-Louis Feiertag’s Corpus Christianorum Series Latina volume published in 2005. Verbatim citations of Vigilantius are fully capitalized and biblical citations are italicized. The present text is not a new critical edition, but aims to improve some of Feiertag’s editorial choices, which, although representative of the manuscript tradition, render the text more difficult to read. Each sentence of the Latin text is numbered and directs the reader to the corresponding sentence in the commentary.
The commentary follows the model of the Gröningen commentaries on Apuleius. The text and translation are provided in smaller units and immediately precede the commentary for ease of reference. I also provide in the appendix a translation of Epp. 61 and 109, the text taken from Hilberg’s Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum edition, as it is referenced and commented upon at various points throughout the dissertation. Following the letters is a short discussion on the genre of the Contra Vigilantium.Item withdrawn by Mark Zulauf ([email protected]) on 2013-11-27T15:15:01Z
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Allegory and Reality: Spes, Victoria and the Date of Prudentius's Psychomachia
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