David Ungvary

Converting Verse (eBook, ePUB)

The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Converting Verse provides a fresh account of the ways Christian poets in the late Roman world-especially those in the outlying provinces of Gaul-reinvented Latin poetry's purpose and power during the turbulent fifth century, a period that witnessed barbarian incursions, the rise of monasticism, and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire itself.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press
• Seitenzahl: 288
• Erscheinungstermin: 9. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780197600764
• Artikelnr.: 72257410

Autorenporträt

David Ungvary is Assistant Professor of Classics at Bard College.

Inhaltsangabe

* INTRODUCTION
* CHAPTER ONE
* Verse and Conversion: Augustine and His Protégés
* CHAPTER TWO
* Authoring Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul, ca. 400-430
* CHAPTER THREE
* Verse and Incursion: The Epigramma Paulini and a Post-406 Poetics of
Reform
* CHAPTER FOUR
* A Double Life: Paulinus of Pella's Eucharisticos
* CHAPTER FIVE
* Announcing Renunciation: Sidonius Apollinaris and Poetic Disavowal
* CHAPTER SIX
* The Poet and the Virgin: Avitus of Vienne's De Consolatoria
Castitatis Laude
* EPILOGUE
* Beyond Gaul: Ennodius of Pavia's Eucharisticon
* APPENDIX
* Ennodius, Eucharisticon, Translated with Rachel Hodes
* BIBLIOGRAPHY