The twenty-eight challenging yet accessible essays in this handbook represent the best of current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. This book affords specialist and non-specialist readers alike vivid insight into the field's complexities and into future possibilities for the work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies.
The twenty-eight challenging yet accessible essays in this handbook represent the best of current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. This book affords specialist and non-specialist readers alike vivid insight into the field's complexities and into future possibilities for the work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies.Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
Ralph J. Hexter is Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Davis. He is also Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature. David Townsend is Professor of Medieval Studies and English at the University of Toronto.
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* Contributors * Preface, Ralph Hexter and David Townsend * I. Framing the Field: Problematics and Provocations * 1. The Current Questions and Future Prospects of Medieval Latin Studies, David Townsend * 2. Canonicity, Ralph Hexter * II. Latinity as Cultural Capital * 3. Latin as an Acquired Language, Carin Ruff * 4. Latin as a Language of Authoritative Tradition, Ryan Szpiech * 5. The Cultures and Dynamics of Translation into Medieval Latin, Thomas E. Burman * 6. Regional Variation: The Case of Scandinavian Latin, Karsten Frijs-Jensen * 7. The Idea of Latinity, Nicholas Watson * III. Manuscript Culture and the Materiality of Latin Texts * 8. Readers and Manuscripts, Andrew Taylor * 9. Gloss and Commentary, Rita Copeland * 10. Location, Location, Location: Geography, Knowledge, and the Creation of Medieval Latin Textual Communities, Ralph Hexter * IV. Styles and Genre * 11. Prose Style, Gregory Hays * 12. Verse Style, Jean-Yves Tilliette [translated from French] * 13. Crossing Generic Boundaries, A. G. Rigg * 14. Textual Fluidity and the Interaction of Latin and the Vernacular Languages, Brian Murdoch * V. Systems of Knowledge * 15. Martianus Capella and the Liberal Arts, Andrew Hicks * 16. Mythography, Winthrop Wetherbee * 17. Biblical Thematics: The Story of Samson in Medieval Literary Discourse, Greti Dinkova-Bruun * 18. The Language, Form and Performance of Monophonic Liturgical Chants, Susan Boynton and Margot Fassler * VI. Medieval Latin and the Fashioning of the Self * 19. Regimens of Schooling, Mia Münster-Swendsen * 20. Gender, Sylvia Parsons and David Townsend * 21. Sex and Sexuality, Larry Scanlon * 22. Medieval Latin Spirituality: Seeking Divine Presence, Anne Clark * 23. Modes of Self-Writing From Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages, Gur Zak * VII. Periodizations * 24. Late Antiquity, New Departures, Marco Formisano * 25. Renaissances and Revivals, Monika Otter * 26. Humanism and Continuities in the Transition to the Early Modern, Ronald Witt * 27. Medieval Latin Texts in the Age of Printing, Paolo Chiesa [translated from Italian] * 28. Medieval Latin in Modern English: Translations from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day, Jan Ziolkowski * Chronology of Medieval Latin Authors * Index
* Contributors * Preface, Ralph Hexter and David Townsend * I. Framing the Field: Problematics and Provocations * 1. The Current Questions and Future Prospects of Medieval Latin Studies, David Townsend * 2. Canonicity, Ralph Hexter * II. Latinity as Cultural Capital * 3. Latin as an Acquired Language, Carin Ruff * 4. Latin as a Language of Authoritative Tradition, Ryan Szpiech * 5. The Cultures and Dynamics of Translation into Medieval Latin, Thomas E. Burman * 6. Regional Variation: The Case of Scandinavian Latin, Karsten Frijs-Jensen * 7. The Idea of Latinity, Nicholas Watson * III. Manuscript Culture and the Materiality of Latin Texts * 8. Readers and Manuscripts, Andrew Taylor * 9. Gloss and Commentary, Rita Copeland * 10. Location, Location, Location: Geography, Knowledge, and the Creation of Medieval Latin Textual Communities, Ralph Hexter * IV. Styles and Genre * 11. Prose Style, Gregory Hays * 12. Verse Style, Jean-Yves Tilliette [translated from French] * 13. Crossing Generic Boundaries, A. G. Rigg * 14. Textual Fluidity and the Interaction of Latin and the Vernacular Languages, Brian Murdoch * V. Systems of Knowledge * 15. Martianus Capella and the Liberal Arts, Andrew Hicks * 16. Mythography, Winthrop Wetherbee * 17. Biblical Thematics: The Story of Samson in Medieval Literary Discourse, Greti Dinkova-Bruun * 18. The Language, Form and Performance of Monophonic Liturgical Chants, Susan Boynton and Margot Fassler * VI. Medieval Latin and the Fashioning of the Self * 19. Regimens of Schooling, Mia Münster-Swendsen * 20. Gender, Sylvia Parsons and David Townsend * 21. Sex and Sexuality, Larry Scanlon * 22. Medieval Latin Spirituality: Seeking Divine Presence, Anne Clark * 23. Modes of Self-Writing From Antiquity to the Later Middle Ages, Gur Zak * VII. Periodizations * 24. Late Antiquity, New Departures, Marco Formisano * 25. Renaissances and Revivals, Monika Otter * 26. Humanism and Continuities in the Transition to the Early Modern, Ronald Witt * 27. Medieval Latin Texts in the Age of Printing, Paolo Chiesa [translated from Italian] * 28. Medieval Latin in Modern English: Translations from the Nineteenth Century to the Present Day, Jan Ziolkowski * Chronology of Medieval Latin Authors * Index
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