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Scottish Text Society Duncane Laideus Testament and other Comic Poems
Book SynopsisFirst modern scholarly edition of a number of late medieval Scottish poems, in the comic tradition. This volume contains eleven Scottish examples of particular kinds of humorous writing - comic, parodic, and satiric - of the late fifteenth and sixteenth centuries. Previously unavailable in modern scholarly editions, these worksare freshly established from diverse sources, including the manuscript that is the earliest extant of John Knox's "Historie of the Reformatioun of Religioun". A manuscript owned by the Campbell of Glenorchy family is the source ofthe volume's most substantial work, Duncane Laideus Testament; the poem's bicultural outlook provides an important reference point for historians, as well as scholars of early Scottish and Gaelic literature. Other texts include David Lyndsay's The Complaint of Bagsche and the anonymous "My gudame wes a gay wif". To assist study of the development of early Scottish writing, and to chart historical, especially religious, change, the poems are arranged in their probable order of composition. Each is introduced separately, with consideration of witnesses; evidence for date of composition and authorship; title, metre, and genre; and full apparatus. Explanatory notesexamine matters of interest or potential difficulty, including the sense of contemporary expressions, wordplay, legal and Latin terms, and debts to earlier writers.The volume also includes a full Bibliography, Glossary, and Indexof Names and Places. Dr Janet Hadley Williams is Honorary Visiting Fellow, School of Literature, Languages, and Linguistics, College of Arts and Social Sciences, The Australian National University.Trade ReviewHadley Williams's detailed knowledge of the period makes the circumstances in which the texts were produced clear and in doing so she reveals aspects of politics that have been largely ignored. The utility of this work extends well beyond the purely literary. * PARERGON *Table of ContentsIntroductions to the Texts Roule, Devyne poware of michtis maist My gudame wes a gay wif The Gyre Carling Sym of Lyntoun, be the ramis horn Lichtoun, Quha doutis dremis is bot phantasye? Lord Fergus Gaist God and Sanct Petir Sir David Lyndsay, The Complaint of Bagsche Alexander Cunningham, Ane Epistle direct fra the holy Armite of Allarit to his bretheren the Gray Freires Duncane Laideus alias Makgregouris Testament Off the Macgregouris armes The Texts Explanatory Notes to the Texts Bibliography Glossary
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Scottish Text Society The EneadosGavin Douglas's Translation of
Book SynopsisFirst volume in a new edition of Douglas's "Eneados", providing a comprehensive introduction and commentary. Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear in any form of English was Gavin Douglas's magisterial verse rendering into Older Scots, completed in 1513, which he called the "Eneados". It included not only the twelve books of Virgil's original, but a thirteenth added by the Italian humanist scholar Maphaeus Vegius, and lively, original prologues to every book.D.F.C. Coldwell's four-volume modern edition of it was published in 1957-64 for the Scottish Text Society, but for some time now has needed revision. This new edition will provide a corrected version of Coldwell's text and variants in subsequent volumes. The first volume, here, the Introduction and Commentary, offers a wealth of new scholarship, comparing Douglas's text to his exact Latin source (first identified by Professor Bawcutt in a 1973 essay reprinted here); vastly expanding the Commentary; offering detailed new analysis of the manuscript and print witnesses to the text and its early reception and circulation; and surveying modern Douglas criticism. There is also a new Bibliography.Trade ReviewAn immense amount of time and energy has clearly been expended on the creation of this new edition, to great advantage. This is likely to be the first print edition to provide the text of the Eneados in the form closest to Douglas' original. The material this volume contains is in itself sufficient to indicate that the complete edition will serve as an apt summation of Priscilla Bawcutt's long and highly distinguished career. This edition will no doubt generate, and serve as a foundational text for, work on the poem for many years to come. * Translation and Literature *Table of ContentsINTRODUCTION The Eneados and its Author The Text of the Eneados Later Editions The Present Edition Appendix to the Introduction: Priscilla J. Bawcutt, 'Gavin Douglas and the Text of Virgil', originally published in Edinburgh Bibliographical Society Transactions 4 (1973), pp. 213-31 COMMENTARY
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Scottish Text Society Eneados: Gavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's
Book SynopsisSecond volume of a major new edition of Douglas's Eneados, containing a substantially revised and corrected text of Books I-VII plus appendix of textual variants. Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear in any form of English was Gavin Douglas's magisterial verse rendering into Older Scots, completed in 1513, which he called the "Eneados". It included not only the twelve books of Virgil's original, but a thirteenth, added by the Italian humanist scholar Maphaeus Vegius, and lively, original prologues to every book. This new edition, the first for over sixty years, is based on Cambridge, Trinity College Library MS O.3.12 and presents a substantially revised and corrected version of the previous version's text and variants. Following from the first volume, containing a vastly expanded Introduction and Commentary, Volume II provides the text and variants for Books I-VII; Vol. III will provide the text and variants for Books VIII-XIII.Table of ContentsPreface and Acknowledgements Prologue I Book I Prologue II Book II Prologue III Book III Prologue IV Book IV Prologue V Book V Prologue VI Book VI Prologue VII Book VII VARIANT READINGS Book I Book II Book III Book IV Book V Book VI Book VII
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Scottish Text Society The Eneados: Gavin Douglas's Translation of
Book SynopsisThird and final volume of a new edition of Douglas's Eneados, containing a substantially revised and corrected text of Books VIII-XIII plus appendix of textual variants. Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear in any form of English was Gavin Douglas's magisterial verse rendering into Older Scots, completed in 1513, which he called the "Eneados". It included not only the twelve books of Virgil's original, but a thirteenth, added by the Italian humanist scholar Maphaeus Vegius, and lively, original prologues to every book. This new edition, the first for over sixty years, is based on Cambridge, Trinity College Library MS O.3.12 and presents a substantially revised and corrected version of the previous version's text and variants. Following from the first volume, containing a vastly expanded Introduction and Commentary, and volume II, providing the text and variants for Books VIII-XII, Volume III completes the edition with the text and variants for Books VIII-XIII.Table of ContentsPrologue VIII Book VIII Prologue IX Book IX Prologue X Book X Prologue XI Book XI Prologue XII Book XII Prologue XIII Book XIII VARIANT READINGS Book VIII Book IX Book X Book XI Book XII Book XIII
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Scottish Text Society Textual and Bibliographical Studies in Older
Book SynopsisSeminal investigations into the most important aspects of medieval Scots texts, with a particular focus on editing and manuscript context. This rich selection from the writings of Priscilla Bawcutt, the major scholar of Older Scots literature, both honours her achievement and provides authoritative guidance to all involved in the pleasures and challenges of medieval and early modern Scottish studies. The first five chapters, including a hitherto unpublished paper, gather her insights into how to examine, contextualize, and edit early poetic texts. Among her discussions are those on the importance of explanatory notes, the usefulness of fragments, the demands of transcription, and the need for objectivity when identifying supposed influences, date, or author. Bawcutt draws on a variety of texts, including Dunbar's "elrich fantasyis", Rolland's Court of Venus, and metrical Scottish charms to illustrate these aspects of editing. Two central chapters then give balance and coherence to the complex evidence of change in literary activities and tastes in early Scotland. First, an analytical survey of manuscript miscellanies, noting their diversity in size, condition, arrangement, copyists, owners, and purposes, offers many different ways to approach these compilations. Secondly, Bawcutt's study of one particular miscellany, the great five-part Bannatyne Manuscript, provides new information on the sources and authors of the many texts it contains and the diversity of their literary and cultural connections. Five further chapters combine textual and bibliographical studies with contextual explorations, into personal libraries, habits of reading, annotators, and book circulation within family groups, across borders, or over time. Among these illuminating essays are those on Gavin Douglas's imaginary library, and the influential first printed edition of his Eneados, both of increasing interest alongside the new edition of his translation. A full bibliography of Priscilla Bawcutt's publications is also included.Table of ContentsForeword Nicola Royan and Rhiannon Purdie Acknowledgements Editor's note Abbreviations Introduction: 'Restoring the authour's works to their integrity' Janet Hadley Williams Arts of Editing 1.'Let us now be told no more of the dull duty of an editor!' 2.Source-Hunting: Some 'Reulis and Cautelis' 3.Elrich Fantasyis in Dunbar and Other Poets 4.'Mankit and Mutillait': The Text of John Rolland's The Court of Venus 5.'Holy Words for Healing': Some Early Scottish Charms and their Ancient Religious Roots Contexts, Contents 6.Manuscript Miscellanies in Scotland from the Fifteenth to the Seventeenth Century 7.The Contents of the Bannatyne Manuscript: New Sources and Analogues Annotators, Owners, Compilers 8.The 'Library' of Gavin Douglas 9.The Commonplace Book of John Maxwell 10.The Boston Public Library Manuscript of John Lydgate's Siege of Thebes: Its Scottish Owners and Inscriptions 11.Lord William Howard of Naworth (1563-1640): Antiquary, Book Collector, and Owner of the Scottish Devotional Manuscript British Library, Arundel 285 12.Gavin Douglas's Eneados: The 1553 Edition and its Early Owners and Readers Priscilla Bawcutt: Publications Elspeth Yeo, A. S. G. Edwards, Janet Hadley Williams Priscilla J. Bawcutt 1931-2021 Alasdair A. MacDonald Index of Manuscripts General Index Tabula in Memoriam
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York Medieval Press Texts and Traditions of Medieval Pastoral Care:
Book SynopsisNew essays on the burgeoning of pastoral and devotional literature in medieval England. Pastoral and devotional literature flourished throughout the middle ages, and its growth and transmutations form the focus of this collection. Ranging historically from the difficulties of localizing Anglo-Saxon pastoral texts tothe reading of women in late-medieval England, the individual essays survey its development and its transformation into the literature of vernacular spirituality. They offer both close examinations of particular manuscripts, and of individual texts, including an anonymous Speculum iuniroum, the Speculum religiosorum of Edmund of Abingdon and later vernacular compositions and translations, such as Handlyng Synne and Bonaventure's Lignum Vitae. The reading and devotional use of texts by women and solitaries is also considered. They therefore form an appropriate tribute to the work of Bella Millett, whose research has done so much to advance our knowledge of the field. Contributors: Alexandra Barratt, Mishtooni Bose, Joseph Goering, Brian Golding, C. Annette Grise, Cate Gunn, Ralph Hanna, Bob Hasenfratz, Catherine Innes-Parker, E. A. Jones, Derek Pearsall, Elaine Treharne, Nicholas Watson, Jocelyn Wogan-BrowneTrade Review[A]n impressive collection [...] each of these essays profits from and continues the tradition of 'enterprise, ingenuity and spirit of intellectual adventure' that Millett's own research demonstrates. * THE REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *Table of ContentsPreface: Bella Millett Bibliography of Bella Millett's Writings Introduction - Derek Pearsall 'Vae Soli': Solitaries and Pastoral Care - E.A. Jones Scribal Connections in Late Anglo-Saxon England - Elaine Treharne Gerald of Wales, the Gemma Ecclesiastica and Pastoral Care - Brian Golding Time to Read: Pastoral Care, Vernacular Access and the Case of Angier of St Frideswide - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Lambeth Palace Library MS 487: Some Problems of Early Thirteenth-century Textual Transmission - Ralph Hanna Pastoral Texts and Traditions: the Anonymous Speculum Iuniorum [c. 1250] - Joe Goering Reading Edmund of Abingdon's Speculum as Pastoral Literature - Cate Gunn Middle English Versions and Audiences of Edmund of Abingdon's Speculum Religiosorum - Nicholas Watson Terror and Pastoral Care in Handlyng Synne - Bob Hasenfratz Prophecy, Complaint and Pastoral Care in the Fifteenth Century: Thomas Gascoigne's Liber Veritatum - Mishtooni Bose Pastoral Concerns in the Middle English Adaptation of Bonaventure's Lignum Vitae - Catherine Innes-Parker Prayer, Meditation and Women Readers in Late-Medieval England: Teaching and Sharing through Books - C. Annette Grise 'Take a Book and Read': Advice for Religious Women - Alexandra Barratt
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York Medieval Press The Anglo-Norman Language and its Contexts
Book SynopsisCollection examining the Anglo-Norman language in a variety of texts and contexts, in military, legal, literary and other forms. The question of the development of Anglo-Norman (the variety of medieval French used in the British Isles), and the role it played in the life of the medieval English kingdom, is currently a major topic of scholarly debate. The essays in this volume examine it from a variety of different perspectives and contexts, though with a concentration on the theme of linguistic contact between Anglo-Norman and English, seeking to situate it more precisely in space and time than has hitherto been the case. Overall they show how Anglo-Norman retained a strong presence in the linguistic life of England until a strikingly late date, and how it constitutes a rich and highly valuable record of theFrench language in the middle ages. Contributors: Richard Ingham, Anthony Lodge, William Rothwell, David Trotter, Mark Chambers, Louise Sylvester, Anne Curry, Adrian Bell, Adam Chapman, Andy King, David Simpkin, Paul Brand, Jean-Pascal Pouzet, Laura Wright, Eric Haeberli.Trade Review[A] significant intervention in current debates surrounding Anglo-Norman's status and development, demonstrating the continuing vitality of French in England into the later Middle Ages. * YEARS WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES *The volume benefits from good overall presentation and a general index, and with the high standard of scholarship and the stimulating and varied topics addressed certainly merits the attention of those interested in Anglo-Norman and medieval English language and culture. * JOURNAL OF FRENCH LANGUAGE STUDIES *Makes a welcome contribution to the current scholarly debate surrounding the question of the development of Anglo-Norman and its role in medieval England. * MEDIUM AEVUM *The essays in this excellent volume apply a new conceptual framework to the study of language(s) in medieval England, and the work that has emerged shows that the new approach has opened up fruitful and exciting lines of inquiry. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction. Anglo-Norman: New Themes, New Contexts - Richard Ingham Later Anglo-Norman as a Contact Variety of French - Richard Ingham The Sources of Standardisation in French - Written or Spoken? - Anthony Lodge 'Husbonderie' and 'Manaungerie' in Later Medieval England: A Tale of Two Walters - W Rothwell Bridging the Gap: The [Socio]Linguistic Evidence of Some Medieval English Bridge Accounts - D A Trotter From apareil to warderobe: Some Observations on Anglo-French in The Middle English Lexis of Cloth and Clothing - Louise Sylvester From apareil to warderobe: Some Observations on Anglo-French in The Middle English Lexis of Cloth and Clothing - Mark C Chambers Languages in the Military Profession in Later Medieval England - Anne Curry and Adam Chapman and Adrian R. Bell The Language of the English Legal Profession: The Emergence of a Distinctive Legal Lexicon in Insular French - Paul Brand Mapping Insular French Texts? Ideas for Localisation and Correlated Dialectology in Manuscript Materials of Medieval England - Jean-Pascal Pouzet A Pilot Study on the Singular Definite Articles le and la in Fifteenth-Century London Mixed-Language Business Writing - Laura Wright Investigating Anglo-Norman Influence on Late Middle English Syntax - Eric Haeberli The Transmission of Later Anglo-Norman: Some Syntactic Evidence - Richard Ingham
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York Medieval Press Women and Writing, c.1340-c.1650: The
Book SynopsisEssays offering a gendered approach to the study of the move from manuscript to early printed book show how much women were involved in the process. The transition from medieval manuscript to early printed book is currently a major topic of academic interest, but has received very little attention in terms of women's involvement, a gap which the essays in this volume address.They add female names to the list of authors who participated in the creation of English literature, and examine women's responses to authoritative and traditional texts in revealing detail. Taking its cue from the advances made by recent work on manuscript culture and book history, this volume also includes studies of material evidence, looking at women's participation in the making of books, and the traces they left when they encountered actual volumes.Finally, studies of women's roles in relation to apparently ephemeral texts, such as letters, pamphlets and almanacs, challenge traditional divisions between public and private spheres as well as between manuscript and print. Dr Anne Lawrence-Mathers is Lecturer in History, University of Reading; Phillipa Hardman is Senior Lecturer in English, University of Reading. Contributors: Gemma Allen, Anna Bayman, James Daybell, Alice Eardley, Christopher Hardman, Phillipa Hardman, Elizabeth Heale, Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Adam Smyth, Alison Wiggins, Graham WilliamsTrade ReviewThis amazing collection of essays is a cornucopia of unearthed documents by a group of schoalrs equally focused and keen on providing a careful and detailed analysis of women's engagement with writing at a time when it was not acceptable that they voice their own perspectives. * SMART *Hitherto unknown women have been brought to light and, in the six high quality illustrations included in the book, so too have some of the rare documents under consideration. [...] A welcome addition to the field. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *The work is well written and clearly laid out. It is a clear asset for library collections. Whether or not one is drawn to the topic, it is also well worth reading for an understanding of the many ways in which researchers approach manuscripts and early printed books. * RARE BOOKS NEWSLETTER *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Anne Lawrence-Mathers Domestic Learning and Teaching: Investigating Evidence for the Role of 'Household Miscellanies' in Late-Medieval England - Phillipa Hardman Domesticating the Calendar: The Hours and the Almanac in Tudor England - Anne Lawrence-Mathers 'A Briefe and Plaine Declaration': Lady Anne Bacon's 1564 Translation of the Apologia Ecclesiae Anglicanae - Gemma Allen Frances Wolfreston's Chaucer - Alison Wiggins Commonplace Book Culture: A List of Sixteen Traits - Adam Smyth Women, Politics and Domesticity: The Scribal Publication of Lady Rich's Letter to Elizabeth I - James Daybell 'yr scribe can proove no nessecarye consiquence for you'?: The Social and Linguistic Implications of Joan Thynne's Using a Scribe in Letters to her Son, 1607-1611 - Graham Williams Fathers and Daughters: Four Women and Their Family Albums of Verse - Elizabeth Heale The Book as Domestic Gift: Bodleian MS Don. C. 24 - C B Hardman 'Like hewen stone': Augustine, Audience and Revision in Elizabeth Isham's 'Booke of Rememberance' [c. 1639] - Alice Eardley Female Voices in Early Seventeenth Century Pamphlet Literature - Anna Bayman Bibliography
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York Medieval Press The Wollaton Medieval Manuscripts: Texts, Owners
Book SynopsisA survey of the history, holdings, decoration, and conservation of one of England's finest medieval libraries, with full catalogue. The Willoughby family, from Wollaton, Nottinghamshire, built up an extensive medieval library, including the notable Wollaton Antiphonal; theirs is the largest surviving library gathered by a gentry family of the period, the product of a single acquisitive burst, beginning around 1460 and mainly completed at about the time of the Dissolution in 1540. The manuscripts remain unique because of the very substantial core which survives more or less in situ, together with a huge collection of family archives, at the University of Nottingham, just a few miles from their original home. This book focuses upon the ten manuscripts now in the Wollaton Library Collection as well asthe famous Antiphonal. Essays explore the history of the library and the Willoughby family, the books of Sir Thomas Chaworth, the art and function of the Antiphonal, the works of pastoral instruction, the decoration of the Frenchmanuscripts (including the earliest fully illustrated manuscript of romances), the Confessio Amantis, and the conservation of the collection. The essays are followed by a full catalogue of the Wollaton Library Collection aswell as of manuscripts and early printed books now dispersed as far afield as Tokyo and New York. Contributors: Alixe Bovey, Gavin Cole, Ralph Hanna, Dorothy Johnston, Rob Lutton, Derek Pearsall, Alison Stones, Thorlac Turville-Petre.Trade Review[A] fascinating study of the manuscripts and early printed books acquired and commissioned by the Willoughby family [..]. The authors and editors are to be commended for the richness of their insights into the Willoughbys and their books [...] a superb book, one that well illustrates how much is to be gained from the interdisciplinary study of medieval manuscripts in their wider textual, physical, visual, and cultural contexts. * SPECULUM *An important book that for the first time supplies a coherent picture of one of late-medieval England's most significant privately assembled libraries. [...] Beyond providing us with the ability to reconstruct a detailed picture of gentry collecting practices, this useful volume also helps better contextualise private, lay reading habits and tastes. * SIXTEENTH CENTURY JOURNAL *The Wollaton Library Collection deserves the thorough and rather splendid format and scholarship provided by the publication of this book. [...] A fascinating and splendid production. * JOURNAL OF THE EARLY BOOK SOCIETY *[A] handsome illustrated collection focusing on the extensive regional gentry library accumulated by the Willoughby family at Wollaton Hall, Nottinghamshire, c.1460-c.1540. * YEARS WORK IN ENGLISH STUDIES *[An] excellent and fascinating volume [which] offers a valuable insight into something very rare: a whole medieval collection. * CILIP RARE BOOKS NEWSLETTER *The editors are to be congratulated on bringing together historical essays, conservation studies, and catalogue entries in a single, richly illustrated volume, finely produced by York Medieval Press. * LIBRARY & INFORMATION HISTORY *Makes for enjoyable and instructive reading to anyone wanting to immerse themselves in the world of English medieval manuscripts. * MANUSCRIPTS *The knowledge and precision of the compilers ensure that this work will stand the test of searching scrutiny. * TLS *Impressive in size and content. [It] will prove a valuable addition to the library of anyone interested in the consumption of texts by a gentry family in the later Middle Ages. * AMARC NEWSLETTER *Table of ContentsPreface The History of a Family Collection - Ralph Hanna and Thorlac Turville-Petre Sir Thomas Chaworth's Books - Thorlac Turville-Petre and Gavin Cole The Wollaton Antiphonal: Kinship and Commemoration - Alixe Bovey Two French Manuscripts: WLC/LM/6 and WLC/LM/7 - Alison Stones The Wollaton Hall Gower Manuscript (WLC/LM/8) Considered in the Context of Other Manuscripts of the Confessio Amantis - Derek Pearsall Vice, Virtue and Contemplation: The Willoughbys' Religious Books and Devotional Interests - Rob Lutton Minding and Mending: Issues in Curating the Medieval Manuscripts - Dorothy Johnston Catalogue - Ralph Hanna and Thorlac Turville-Petre Illustrations Index to Manuscripts
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York Medieval Press Barking Abbey and Medieval Literary Culture:
Book Synopsis[An] admirable collection. . For anyone interested in what Wogan-Browne calls "the historiography of female community", nuns' libraries and literacy, and Barking abbey itself, this first-class collection of essays is essential reading. CATHOLIC HISTORICAL REVIEW Essays on the texts produced at Barking Abbey - one of the most important centres for writings in the Middle Ages.Trade ReviewTo be welcomed as a significant study of female literacy and monastic life in the Middle Ages. * ENGLISH *A strong resource. * MAGISTRA 19.1, Summer 2013 *[E]minent scholars from various disciplines present a variety of topics and approaches, that, taken together, emphasize the abbey's importance. The result is a volume that merits a place alongside other works on women's religious culture in the Middle Ages. [...] Recommended. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Barking's Lives, the Abbey and its Abbesses Barking's Monastic School, Late Seventh to Early Twelfth Century: History, Saint Making and Literary Culture - Stephanie Hollis The Saint-Maker and the Saint: Hildelith Creates Ethelburg - Lisa M.C. Weston Goscelin of Saint-Bertin and the Translation Ceremony for Saints Ethelburg, Hildelith, and Wulfhild - Kay Slocum 'The Ladies Have Made Me Quite Fat': Authors and Patrons at Barking Abbey - Thomas O'Donnell 'Sun num n'i vult dire a ore': Identity Matters at Barking Abbey - Delbert W. Russell 'Ce qu'ens li trovat, eut en sei': On the Equal Chastity of Queen Edith and King Edward in the Nun of Barking's La Vie d'Edouard Le Confesseur - Thelma Fenster Body, Gender, and Nation in the Lives of Edward the Confessor - Jennifer N. Brown Clemence and Catherine: The Life of St Catherine in its Norman and Anglo-Norman Context - Diane Auslander Cicero, Aelred and Guernes: The Politics of Love in Clemence of Barking's Catherine - Donna Alfano Bussell The Authority of Diversity: Communal Patronage in Le Gracial - Emma Berat Keeping Body and Soul Together: The Charge to the Barking Cellaress - Alexandra Barratt Rhythmic Liturgy, Embodiment and Female Authority in Barking's Easter Plays - Jill Stevenson Liturgy as the Site of Creative Engagement: Contributions of the Nuns of Barking - Anne Bagnall Yardley Afterword: Barking and the Historiography of Female Community - Jocelyn Wogan-Browne Bibliography
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York Medieval Press Reimagining History in Anglo-Norman Prose
Book SynopsisFirst collective study of the Anglo-Norman prose chronicles, bringing out their essential characteristics, setting them in context, and showing their writers' aims and objectives. The medieval Anglo-Norman prose chronicles are fascinating hybrids of history, legends and romance, building on the rich tradition of historical writing circulating in England at the time of their composition, such as Geoffrey ofMonmouth's Historia and the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle. Their prime subject is the history of England, but they also shed much light on other networks of influence, such as those between families and religious houses. Thisbook studies the essential characteristics of the genre for the first time, situating Anglo-Norman prose chronicles within the multilingual cultures of late medieval England. It considers the chronicles' treatment of the "legendary history of Britain", legends about English heroes, accounts of the Norman Conquest, and histories of noble families. In particular, it explores how Anglo-Norman prose chronicles rewrite the past with rhetorical flourish, in order to advance the contemporary political and personal agendas of their authors and patrons. John Spence gained his PhD from the University of Cambridge.Trade ReviewThanks to the scrupulous and precise scholarship which he has brought to the study of many disparate and scattered texts, Spence has come to some very convincing conclusions. His is a much-needed book that deserves praise. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *The overall breadth of coverage is impressive and the bibliography is extensive. This investigation of an important genre is a very welcome addition to our understanding of insular French literature. * FRENCH STUDIES *Table of ContentsIntroduction The rhetoric of confidence in the prologues to Anglo-Norman prose chronicles The legendary history of Britain in Anglo-Norman prose chronicles Legends of English heroes: Engel, Havelok, Constance Representations of the Norman Conquest in Anglo-Norman prose chronicles Family chronicles Conclusions Appendix: Two extracts from the Scalacronica: texts and translations
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York Medieval Press Rethinking Chaucer's Legend of Good Women
Book SynopsisA fresh reading of the Legend shows it to be one of Chaucer's most carefully crafted and significant works. Professor Collette's approach to this challenging and provocative poem reflects her wide scholarly interests, her expertise in the area of representations of women in late medieval European society, and her conviction that the Legend of Good Women can be better understood when positioned within several of the era's intellectual concerns and historical contexts. The book will enrich the ongoing conversation among Chaucerians as to the significance of the Legend, both as an individual cultural production and an important constituent of Chaucer's poetic.achievement. A praiseworthy and useful monograph. Professor Robert Hanning, Columbia University. The Legend of Good Women has perhaps not always had the appreciation or attention it deserves. Here, it is read as one of Chaucer's major texts, a thematically and artistically sophisticated work whose veneer of transparency and narrow focus masks a vital inquiry into basic questions of value, moderation, and sincerity in late medieval culture. The volume places Chaucer within several literary contexts developed in separate chapters: early humanist bibliophilia, translation and the development of the vernacular; late medieval compendia of exemplary narratives centred in women's choices written by Boccaccio, Machaut, Gower and Christine de Pizan; and the pervasive late fourteenth-century cultural influence of Aristotelian ideas of the mean, moderation, and value, focusing on Oresme's translations of the Ethics into French. It concludes with two chapters on the context of Chaucer's continual reconsideration of issues of exchange, moderation and fidelity apparent in thematic, figurative and semantic connections that link the Legend both to Troilus and Criseyde and to the women of The Canterbury Tales. Carolyn Collette is Emeritus Professor of English Language and Literature at Mount Holyoke College and a Research Associate at the Centre for Medieval Studies at the University of York.Trade ReviewThe readings here, which emphasize Chaucer's ethical seriousness and his sympathy for women's experience, are sensitive and frequently incisive. * MEDIUM AEVUM *Rather than celebrating the Legend as a fragmented collection . . . Collette resituates the tales in multiple contexts. . . . Seen from this perspective, the Legend is less isolated and more central to understanding Chaucer's developing poetic imagination. * SHARP NEWS *Collette presents a logical and articulate argument for re¬considering the conventional wisdom surrounding the Legend. . . . The repositioning of the Legend in the broader contexts of both early humanism and Chaucer's approach to presenting women and feminine concerns in his corpus is a valuable contribution to a feminist discussion of the text. * MEDIEVAL FEMINIST FORUM *By offering provocative statements, unusual humanist contexts, and tantalizing 'possible foci' in order to stimulate further scholarship, and by arguing persuasively that the Legend should be considered in relation to the Canterbury Tales, Collette has broadened the scope of future discussions of Chaucer's literary heroines. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *Contains thoughtful and persuasive readings, attentive discussion of poetic effects and an interesting new contextualization of this often overlooked text. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Collette's meticulous scholarship both develops new contexts for studying the Legend and casts a fresh eye on its content and positioning within Chaucer's corpus. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *This book serves as an excellent introduction to major (and sometimes shared) themes and contexts within Chaucer's text. * CHOICE *Table of ContentsIntroduction Love of Books Exemplary Women As Etik seith: Aristotelian Ideas in the Legend Women in Love: on the Unity of The Legend of Good Women and Troilus and Criseyde A New Paradigm: Comedy and the Individual Epilogue
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York Medieval Press Robert Thornton and his Books: Essays on the
Book SynopsisEssays examining the compiler and contents of two of the most important and significant extant late medieval manuscript collections. The Yorkshire landowner Robert Thornton (c.1397- c.1465) copied the contents of two important manuscripts, Lincoln Cathedral, MS 91 (the "Lincoln manuscript"), and London, British Library, MS Additional 31042 (the "London manuscript") in the middle decades of the fifteenth century. Viewed in combination, his books comprise a rare repository of varied English and Latin literary, religious and medical texts that survived the dissolution of the monasteries, when so many other medieval books were destroyed. Residing in the texts he copied and used are many indicators of what this gentleman scribe of the North Riding read, how he practised his religion, and what worldly values he held for himself and his family. Because of the extraordinary nature of his collected texts - Middle English romances, alliterative verse (the alliterative Morte Arthure only exists here), lyrics and treatises of religion ormedicine - editors and scholars have long been deeply interested in uncovering Thornton's habits as a private, amateur scribe. The essays collected here provide, for the first time, a sustained, focussed light on Thornton and hisbooks. They examine such matters as what Thornton as a scribe made, how he did it, and why he did it, placing him in a wider context and looking at the contents of the manuscripts. Susanna Fein is Professor of Englishat Kent State University; Michael Johnston is an Assistant Professor of English at Purdue University. Contributors: Julie Nelson Couch, Susanna Fein, Rosalind Field, Joel Fredell, Ralph Hanna, Michael Johnston, George R. Keiser, Julie Orlemanski, Mary Michele Poellinger, Dav Smith, Thorlac Turville-Petre.Trade ReviewA carefully edited and well-coordinated book whose contributions both refine and extend previous scholarship . The essays collected here . offer a thoughtful and timely demonstration of what can be deduced from manuscript evidence, and a compendium of Thornton scholarship that will be of lasting use. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *This collection is a welcome addition to scholarly resources, offering new insights on texts and on Thornton's processes of compilation, while its copious reference to previous research provides a useful introduction to Thornton studies, helpfully summarized by Michael Johnston in his introduction. * SPECULUM *An interesting and very useful [collection]...essential for anyone approaching Thornton's books in the future. * REVIEW OF ENGLISH STUDIES *Very highly recommended. * MIDWEST BOOK REVIEW *Perhaps the greatest endorsement this reviewer can give to this volume is that it reproduces the world of Thornton by creating an edited volume that reflects the scribal work of Thornton: unique, coherent, and destined to help shape the field of Middle English studies for years to come. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *As the essays make clear, Thornton's collections will remain an essential resource for an understanding of the literary history, and to some extent the mentalité of his time. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Cheese and the Worms and Robert Thornton - Michael Johnston The Contents of Robert Thornton's Manuscripts - Susanna Fein Robert Thornton: Gentleman, Reader and Scribe - George R. Keiser The Thornton Manuscripts and Book Production in York - Joel Fredell The Text of the Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Prolegomenon for a Future Edition - Ralph Hanna The Text of the Alliterative Morte Arthure: A Prolegomenon for a Future Edition - Thorlac Turville-Petre 'The rosselde spere to his herte rynnes': Religious Violence in the Alliterative Morte Arthure and the Lincoln Thornton Manuscript - Mary Michele Poellinger Constantinian Christianity in the London Thornton Manuscript: The Codicological and Linguistic Evidence of Thornton's Intentions - Michael Johnston Apocryphal Romance in the London Thornton Manuscript - Julie Nelson Couch Thornton's Remedies and Practices of Medical Reading - Julie Orlemanski Afterword: Robert Thornton Country - Rosalind Field and Dav Smith Bibliography
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York Medieval Press Middle English Texts in Transition: A Festschrift
Book SynopsisFresh contributions to the study of medieval manuscripts, texts, and their creators. This exciting collection of essays is centred on late medieval English manuscripts and their texts. It offers new insights into the works of canonical literary writers, including Geoffrey Chaucer, John Gower, William Langland, Walter Hilton and Nicholas Love, as well as lesser-known texts and manuscripts. It also considers medieval books, their producers, readers, and collectors. It is thus a fitting tribute to one the foremost scholars of the history of the book, Professor Toshiyuki Takamiya, whom it honours. Simon Horobin is Professor of English Language and Literature at the University of Oxford; Linne Mooney is Professor of Medieval English Palaeography in the Department of English and Related Literature at the University of York. Contributors: Timothy Graham, Richard Firth Green, Carrie Griffin, Gareth Griffith, Phillipa Hardman, John Hirsh, Simon Horobin, Terry Jones, Takako Kato, Linne R. Mooney, Mary Morse, James J. Murphy, Natalia Petrovskaia, Susan Powell, Ad Putter, Michael G. Sargent, Eric Stanley, Mayumi Taguchi, Isamu Takahashi, Satoko Tokunaga, R.F. YeagerTable of ContentsIntroduction - Linne R Mooney The Early History of the Scriveners' Company Common Paper and its So-Called 'Oaths' - Richard Firth Green Corpus Christi College Oxford MS 201 and its Copy of Piers Plowman - Simon Horobin Did John Gower Re-dedicate his Confessio Amantis Before Henry IV's Usurpation? - Terry Jones Le Songe Vert, BL MS Add 34114 (the Spalding Manuscript), Bibliothèque de la ville de Clermont MS 249, and John Gower - Robert F. Yeager Bodleian Library, MS Ashmole 33: Thoughts on Reading a Work in Progress - Phillipa Hardman The Rawlinson Lyrics: Context, Memory and Performance - John C. Hirsh Linguistic Boundaries in Multilingual Miscellanies: The Case of Middle English Romance - Ad Putter Linguistic Boundaries in Multilingual Miscellanies: The Case of Middle English Romance - Gareth Griffith What Six Unalike Lyrics in MS Harley 2253 Have Alike in Manuscript Layout - Eric G Stanley Evidence for the Licensing of Books from Arundel to Cromwell - Susan Powell Bishops, Patrons, Mystics and Manuscripts: Walter Hilton, Nicholas Love and the Arundel and Holland Connections - Michael G. Sargent The Choice and Arrangement of Texts in MS Pepys 2125, Magdalene College, Cambridge: A Tentative Narrative about its Material History - Mayumi Taguchi 'Thys moche more ys oure Lady Mary longe': Takamiya MS 56 and the English Birth Girdle Tradition - Mary Morse Bookish Types: Some Post-Medieval Owners, Borrowers and Lenders of the Manuscripts of The Wise Book of Philosophy and Astronomy - Carrie Griffin Laurentius Guglielmus Traversagnus and the Genesis of Vaticana Codex Lat. 11441, with Remarks on Bodleian MS Laud Lat. 61 - James J Murphy The Travels of a Quire from the Twelfth Century to the Twenty-First: The Case of Rawlinson B 484, fols. 1-6 - Natalia Petrovskaia William Elstob's Planned Edition of the Anglo-Saxon Laws: A Remnant in the Takamiya Collection - Timothy Graham Gutenberg Meets Digitisation: The Path of a Digital Ambassador - Takako Kato and Satoko Tokunaga An Updated Bibliography of Toshiyuki Takamiya - Satoko Tokunaga
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York Medieval Press Brothers and Sisters in Medieval European
Book SynopsisA wideranging and groundbreaking investigation of the sibling relationship as shown in European literature, from 500 to 1500. The literature of the European Middle Ages attends closely to the relationship of brother and sister, laying bare sibling behaviours in their most dramatic forms as models to emulate, to marvel at or to avoid. The literary treatment of siblings opens up multiple perspectives on brothers' and sisters' emotions: love, hate, rivalry, desire, nurturing and ambivalence underlie sibling stories. These narratives are in turn inflected by rank, social context andmost crucially, gender. This book examines these sibling relationships, focusing on the important vernacular literatures of Iceland, France, England and Germany, and building on recent research on siblings in psychology, history and social science. Multiple and subtle patterns in sibling interaction are teased out, such as the essential sibling task of "borderwork" (the establishment of individuality despite genetic resemblance), and the tensions caused by the easy substitutability of one sibling for another in certain social situations. When the sibling bond is extended to the in-law relation, complex emotional, strategic and political forces and powerful ambivalences nuancethe relationship still further. Quasi-siblings: foster- or sworn-brothers complete the sibling picture in ways which reflect and contrast with the sibling blood-tie. Carolyne Larrington is a Fellow and Tutor in medieval English literature at St John's College, University of Oxford.Trade ReviewFascinating and wide-ranging.... An enjoyable and thought-provoking read. * TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT *The universal nature and complex dynamics of sibling relationships make this an interesting addition to York Medieval Press's project and a necessary resource for any scholar interested in familial relationships in the Middle Ages. Recommended. * CHOICE *Carolyne Larrington's new study is a useful addition to the small but growing field of medieval sibling studies. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction The Medieval Sibling in History 'Berr er hverr á bakinu nema sér bróður eigi': Fraternal Love and Loyalty 'Io v'ho cara quanto sorella si dee avere': Sisters, and their Brothers 'Næs þæt andæges nið': Fraternal Hatreds 'Te souviegne de ce que je suis ta seur': Sisters and Hostility 'The king's dochter gaes wi child to her brither': Sibling Incest 'So wil ich dir ce wibe mine swester gebn': When Siblings Marry 'Trewethes togider that gun plight': Fictive Siblings Conclusion Bibliography
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York Medieval Press The Classicist Writings of Thomas Walsingham:
Book SynopsisA comparative reading of the "literary" works of Thomas Walsingham, highlighting his reaction to contemporary historical events. The literary career of Thomas Walsingham, a significant figure in late fourteenth-century classicist letters in England and an overlooked contemporary of Chaucer, has been neglected - which this book remedies. Following the texts,rather than individuals or institutions, it demonstrates both authors' participation in a previously unrecognized discursive field that spans Latinate clerical prose and secular vernacular poetry, opening for reexamination the "idea" of public literature in the late Middle Ages and recalibrating the terms of the conversation about the advent of humanistic textual practice in England. Providing a connected and comparative reading of Walsingham's works, alongside those of Chaucer, and taking both historical and literary approaches, the book extends our understanding of Chaucer through the exploration of his relationship to the clerical constituencies of London, Oxford, and monasteries in the South-East, and inserts Walsingham into the modern study of the reception of the Latin classics among the vernacular authors of his period. Sylvia Federico is Professor of English and member of the Classical and Medieval Studies Program at Bates College.Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Watlyng Street Circuit and the Field of Classicist Letters Portraits of Princes in Liber benefactorum, Prohemia poetarum, and the 'Monk's Tale' The Textual Environment of the Historia Alexandri magni principis Court Politics and Italian Letters in Ditis ditatus and Troilus and Criseyde Omnia vincit amor: Passion in the Chronicle Conclusion: The Learned Clerk and Humanistic Practice'
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York Medieval Press The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives
Book SynopsisFresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period. Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial importance as the first book designed to convey in the English language an ambitious range ofsecular romance and chronicle. Evidently made in London by professional scribes for a secular patron, this tantalizing volume embodies a massive amount of material evidence as to London commercial book production and the demand for vernacular texts in the early fourteenth century. But its origins are mysterious: who were its makers? its users? how was it made? what end did it serve? The essays in this collection define the parameters of present-day Auchinleck studies. They scrutinize the manuscript's rich and varied contents; reopen theories and controversies regarding the book's making; trace the operations and interworkings of the scribes, compiler, and illuminators; teaseout matters of patron and audience; interpret the contested signs of linguistic and national identity; and assess Auchinleck's implied literary values beside those of Chaucer. Geography, politics, international relations and multilingualism become pressing subjects, too, alongside critical analyses of literary substance. Susanna Fein is Professor of English at Kent State University and editor of The Chaucer Review. Contributors: Venetia Bridges, Patrick Butler, Siobhain Bly Calkin, A. S. G. Edwards, Ralph Hanna, Ann Higgins, Cathy Hume, Marisa Libbon, Derek Pearsall, Helen Phillips, Emily Runde, Timothy A. Shonk, Míceál F. Vaughan.Trade ReviewIn chapter after chapter, the collection pushes the borders of scholarly debate around the content as well as the form of the Auchinleck manuscript . . . [A] must-have for any scholar or student of Medieval English literature. * MODERN LANGUAGE STUDIES *A weighty and significant publication.. It constitutes essential reading, not only for any serious student of the Auchinleck Ms. and its texts, but also for those interested in medieval romance and in any aspect of medieval ms. culture. It is also an example of an all-too-rare phenomenon: a volume of essays which is, through their interaction and skillful curation, significantly more than the sum of its parts. * SCRIPTORIUM *Future scholars will need to ground themselves in this volume. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *This collection is a great resource for further scholarship on the Auchinleck manuscript and the treasures it contains. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *[A] thought-provoking and rich collection . . . As these essays amply demonstrate, the Auchinleck manuscript should remain well and trulyat the center of any study of late medieval English literary culture. -- Raluca Radulescu * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives - Susanna Fein The Auchinleck Manuscript Forty Years On - Derek Pearsall Codicology and Translation in the Early Sections of the Auchinleck Manuscript - A S G Edwards The Auchinleck Adam and Eve: An Exemplary Family Story - Cathy Hume A Failure to Communicate: Multilingualism in the Prologue to Of Arthour and of Merlin - Patrick Butler Scribe 3's Literary Project: Pedagogies of Reading in Auchinleck's Booklet 3 - Emily Runde Absent Presence: Auchinleck and Kyng Alisaunder - Venetia Bridges Sir Tristrem, a Few Fragments and the Northern Identity of the Auchinleck Manuscript - Ann Higgins The Invention of King Richard - Marisa Libbon Auchinleck and Chaucer - Helen Phillips Endings in the Auchinleck Manuscript - Siobhain Bly Calkin Paraphs, Piecework and Presentation: The Production Methods of Auchinleck Revisited - Timothy A. Shonk Scribal Corrections in the Auchinleck Manuscript - Miceal F Vaughan Auchinleck 'Scribe 6' and Some Corollary Issues - Ralph Hanna Bibliography
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York Medieval Press The Prose Brut and Other Late Medieval
Book SynopsisEssays on the medieval chronicle tradition, shedding light on history writing, manuscript studies and the history of the book, and the post-medieval reception of such texts. The histories of chronicles composed in England during the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries and onwards, with a focus on texts belonging to or engaging with the Prose Brut tradition, are the focus of this volume. The contributors examine the composition, dissemination and reception of historical texts written in Anglo-Norman, Latin and English, including the Prose Brut chronicle (c. 1300 and later), Castleford's Chronicle (c. 1327),and Nicholas Trevet's Les Cronicles (c. 1334), looking at questions of the processes of writing, rewriting, printing and editing history. They cross traditional boundaries of subject and period, taking multi-disciplinary approaches to their studies in order to underscore the (shifting) historical, social and political contexts in which medieval English chronicles were used and read from the fourteenth century through to the present day. As such, the volume honours the pioneering work of the late Professor Lister M. Matheson, whose research in this area demonstrated that a full understanding of medieval historical literature demands attention to both the content of theworks in question and to the material circumstances of producing those works. JACLYN RAJSIC is a Lecturer in Medieval Literature in the School of English and Drama at Queen Mary University of London; ERIK KOOPER taughtOld and Middle English at Utrecht University until his retirement in 2007; DOMINIQUE HOCHE Is an Associate Professor at West Liberty University in West Virginia. Contributors: Elizabeth J. Bryan, Caroline D. Eckhardt,A.S.G. Edwards, Dan Embree, Alexander L. Kaufman, Edward Donald Kennedy, Erik Kooper, Julia Marvin, William Marx, Krista A. Murchison, Heather Pagan, Jaclyn Rajsic, Christine M. Rose, Neil WeijerTrade ReviewThese essays will spark novel investigations in all the areas of chronicle study highlighted....The volume achieves its aims admirably, both to honour Lister's memory and scholarship and open up new avenues for further investigation. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *A solid and absorbing volume, full of information, and essential for all researchers on the English medieval Chronicle. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *Opens up new avenues for scholarship that are rich with opportunity, but it also shows how much work remains incomplete in the study of medieval chronicles and their manuscripts. * CERAE *The volume usefully brings together several threads of scholarship on the Prose Brut and on medieval chronicles, with chapters providing varied approaches and offering a great deal of new evidence about the manuscripts ... The chapters in this volume stand as testimony to the influence of Matheson's work and do credit to his memory. The volume is indispensable to scholars with an interest in the Prose Brut and in late medieval English chronicles. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction Curriculum Vitae of Lister M. Matheson A Memoir: The Whole Haggis: Lessons From the Work of Lister M. Matheson - Julia Marvin Piety, Community and Local History: Le Livere de Reis de Engleterre and its Context in Cambridge, Trinity College, MS R.14.7 - Krista A. Murchison The Seen and the Unseen: Miracles, Marvels and Portents in the Middle English Chronicle of Nicholas Trevet - Christine Rose 'And Many O_er Diuerse Tokens...': Portents and Wonders in 'Warkworth's' Chronicle - Alexander L. Kaufman The Lawyer and the Herald - Dan Embree Longleat House MS 55: An Unacknowledged Brut Manuscript? - E S Kooper Peculiar Versions of the Middle English Prose Brut and Textual Archaeology - William Marx The English Prose Brut Chronicle on a Roll: Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 546 and its History - Jaclyn Rajsic Re-Printing or Remaking? The Early Printed Editions of the Chronicles of England - Neil Weijer Trevet's Les Cronicles: Manuscripts, Owners and Readers - Heather Pagan Matthew Parker and the Middle English Prose Brut - Elizabeth Bryan Thomas Hearne and English Chronicles - Edward Donald Kennedy The Manuscript of Castleford's Chronicle: Its History and its Scribes - Caroline Eckhardt Bruts for Sale - A S G Edwards Index Tabula in Memoriam
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York Medieval Press Beds and Chambers in Late Medieval England:
Book SynopsisFirst full-length interdisciplinary study of the effect of these everyday surroundings on literature, culture and the collective consciousness of the late middle ages. The bed, and the chamber which contained it, was something of a cultural and social phenomenon in late-medieval England. Their introduction into some aristocratic and bourgeois households captured the imagination of late-medievalEnglish society. The bed and chamber stood for much more than simply a place to rest one's head: they were symbols of authority, unparalleled spaces of intimacy, sanctuaries both for the powerless and the powerful. This change inphysical domestic space shaped the ways in which people thought about less tangible concepts such as gender politics, communication, God, sex and emotions. Furthermore, the practical uses of beds and chambers shaped and were shaped by artistic and literary production. This volume offers the first interdisciplinary study of the cultural meanings of beds and chambers in late-medieval England. It draws on a vast array of literary, pragmatic and visual sources, including romances, saints' lives, lyrics, plays, wills, probate inventories, letters, church and civil court documents, manuscript illumination and physical objects, to shed new light on the ways in which beds and chambersfunctioned as both physical and conceptual spaces. Hollie L.S. Morgan is a Research Fellow in the School of History and Heritage, University of Lincoln.Trade Review[A]mbitious and entertaining. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *For readers interested in the interplay among household objects, spaces, and ideology in late medieval England, this book provides an essential resource. * SPECULUM *Offers a rich and insightful discussion of the nature of the bed, providing material not just for medievalists but for historians exploring such questions in later centuries. * PARERGON *[W]ell worth reading: not only for medievalists (whether historians or not), but also for social and cultural historians of other eras who are interested in just how complex the relationship between spaces, objects, and representations can be, even for something as taken for granted as a bed. * AMERICAN HISTORICAL REVIEW *Morgan has provided new approaches to the cultural history of England in the late Middle Ages. * THE RICARDIAN *[O]pens up important discussions for the relationship between the literary and physical world. * CANADIAN JOURNAL OF HISTORY *Morgan's beautifully produced study of beds and chambers helps the reader to understand how their symbolism shaped relationships in late medieval England. . . . [A] delightful read that will be appreciated by scholars and students in a wide variety of fields. -- Sara M. Butler * Journal of British Studies *Table of ContentsIntroduction 'Fyrst arysse erly' 'Serve thy God deuly' 'Do thy warke wyssely/ [...] and awnswer the pepll curtesly' 'Goo to thy bed myrely/ and lye therin jocundly' 'Plesse and loffe thy wyffe dewly/ and basse hyr onys or tewys myrely' The invisible woman Conclusion Bibliography
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York Medieval Press Universal Chronicles in the High Middle Ages
Book SynopsisNew perspectives on and interpretations of the popular medieval genre of the universal chronicle. Found in pre-modern cultures of every era and across the world, from the ancient Near East to medieval Latin Christendom, the universal chronicle is simultaneously one of the most ubiquitous pre-modern cultural forms and one of the most overlooked. Universal chronicles narrate the history of the whole world from the time of its creation up to the then present day, treating the world's affairs as though they were part of a single organic reality, and uniting various strands of history into a unifed, coherent story. They reveal a great deal about how the societies that produced them understood their world and how historical narrative itself can work to produce that understanding. The essays here offer new perspectives on the genre, from a number of different disciplines, demonstrating their vitality, flexibility and cultural importance, They reveal them to be deeply political texts, which allowed history-writers and their audiences to locate themselves in space, time and in the created universe. Several chapters address the manuscript context, looking at the innovative techniques of compilation, structure and layout that placed them at the cutting edge of medieval book technology. Others analyse the background of universal chronicles, and identify their circulation amongst different social groups; there are also investigations into their literary discourse, patronage, authorship and diffusion. Michele Campopiano is Senior Lecturer in Medieval Latin Literature at the University of York; Henry Bainton is Lecturer in High Medieval Literature at the University of York. Contributors:Tobias Andersson, Michele Campopiano, Cornelia Dreer, Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas, Elena Koroleva, Keith Lilley, Andrew Marsham, Rosa M. Rodriguez Porto, Christophe Thierry, Elizabeth M. Tyler, Steven Vanderputten, Bjorn Weiler, Claudia Wittig.Trade ReviewThis early product of the editors' research project at the University of York is a richly informative roundtable of thirteen historiographers exhibiting nine Christian European chronicles from the eleventh century to the thirteenth, bracketed by a ninth-century history from Muslim Iraq and the geographic enrichments of a fourteenth-century Latin chronicle from England. -- Daniel Williman * Speculum *Table of ContentsIntroduction: New Perspectives on Universal Chronicles in the High Middle Ages - Michele Campopiano The First Islamic Chronicle: The Chronicle Of Khalifa B. Khayyat (d. AD 854) - Tobias Andersson and Andrew Marsham Universal Historiography as Process? Shaping Monastic Memories in the Eleventh-Century Chronicle Of Saint-Vaast - Steven Vanderputten Writing Universal History in Eleventh-Century England: Cotton Tiberius B. i, German Imperial History-writing and Vernacular Lay Literacy - Elizabeth M. Tyler Political Didacticism in the Twelfth Century: the Middle-High German Kaiserchronik - Claudia Wittig Cosmology, Theology of History and Ideology in Godfrey of Viterbo's Pantheon - Michele Campopiano Écrire l'histoire universelle à la cour de Konrad IV de Hohenstaufen : Rudolf von Ems et la Weltchronik (milieu du XIIIe siècle) - Christophe Thierry Écrire la première histoire universelle en français: l'Histoire ancienne jusqu'à César de Wauchier de Denain et l'adaptation du modèle latin de l'histoire universelle à un public de laïcs - Catherine Gaullier-Bougassas How Unusual was Matthew Paris? The Writing of Universal History in Angevin England - Björn Weiler The Pillars of Hercules: The Estoria De Espanna (Escorial, Y.I.2) as Universal Chronicle - Rosa M. Rodríguez Porto La Vie d'Alexandre dans la Chronique dite de Baudouin d'Avesnes - Elena Koroleva Universal Histories and their Geographies: Navigating the Maps and Texts of Higden's Polychronicon - Cornelia Dreer Universal Histories and their Geographies: Navigating the Maps and Texts of Higden's Polychronicon - Keith D. Lilley
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York Medieval Press The Construction of Vernacular History in the
Book SynopsisFirst full-length interpretive study of the prose Brut tradition, setting its manuscript context alongside textual analysis. The prose Brut chronicle was the most popular vernacular work of the late Middle Ages in England, setting a standard for vernacular historical writing well into the age of print, but until recently it has attracted little scholarly attention. This book combines a study of the chronicle's sources, content, and methods of composition, with its manuscript contexts. Using the Anglo-Norman Oldest Version as a touchstone, it investigates the chronicle's social ideals, its representation of women, and its distinctive versions of such elements of British history as the Trojan foundation myth, the ruin of the Britons, the Norman Conquest, and Arthur and Merlin, arguing that its humane, populist vision demands reassessment of medieval popular understandings of British history, and of the presumed dominance of imperialism, next-worldly piety, misogyny, and a taste for violence in late-medieval culture. The book also analyses evidence for the production of the Anglo-Norman Brut, and examines the ways in which its makers and users reconstructed British history through manuscript context, ordinatio and apparatus, annotationand illustration. Julia Marvin is a Fellow of the Medieval Institute and Associate Professor in the Program of Liberal Studies at the University of Notre Dame.Trade ReviewAll scholars of late medieval England, and medieval history writing more generally, should read this volume. It is to be hoped that Marvin's superb volume will encourage scholars to give more attention to the * ANPB. NORTHERN HISTORY *Marvin's book is a vital guide to the Anglo-Norman Prose Brut, indicating the importance of its substantial manuscript corpus. The chapter introductions and conclusions admirably situate the reader within a mass of material. The Introduction helpfully details the book's structure and scholarly importance, while the Conclusion promotes reflection on the differing ways in which history mattered to medieval readers. * MODERN LANGUAGE REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: Recognizing the Prose Brut Tradition A New New Troy: Brut, Rome, and the Foundations of British History The Community of the Realm: King, Baron, Brother, Stranger Women with Voices Arthur The Continuity of the Realm Evidence of Production The Company that Bruts Keep Ordinatio, Apparatus, and Annotation History Illustrated Conclusion: Merlin's Power Bibliography
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York Medieval Press The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives
Book SynopsisFresh examinations of the manuscript which is one of the chief compendiums of literature in the Middle English period. Created in London c. 1340, the Auchinleck manuscript (Edinburgh, National Library of Scotland Advocates MS 19.2.1) is of crucial importance as the first book designed to convey in the English language an ambitious range ofsecular romance and chronicle. Evidently made in London by professional scribes for a secular patron, this tantalizing volume embodies a massive amount of material evidence as to London commercial book production and the demand for vernacular texts in the early fourteenth century. But its origins are mysterious: who were its makers? its users? how was it made? what end did it serve? The essays in this collection define the parameters of present-day Auchinleck studies. They scrutinize the manuscript's rich and varied contents; reopen theories and controversies regarding the book's making; trace the operations and interworkings of the scribes, compiler, and illuminators; teaseout matters of patron and audience; interpret the contested signs of linguistic and national identity; and assess Auchinleck's implied literary values beside those of Chaucer. Geography, politics, international relations and multilingualism become pressing subjects, too, alongside critical analyses of literary substance. SUSANNA FEIN is Professor of English at Kent State University and editor of The Chaucer Review. Contributors: Venetia Bridges, Patrick Butler, Siobhain Bly Calkin, A. S. G. Edwards, Ralph Hanna, Ann Higgins, Cathy Hume, Marisa Libbon, Derek Pearsall, Helen Phillips, Emily Runde, Timothy A. Shonk, Míceál F. Vaughan.Trade ReviewA weighty and significant publication.. It constitutes essential reading, not only for any serious student of the Auchinleck Ms. and its texts, but also for those interested in medieval romance and in any aspect of medieval ms. culture. It is also an example of an all-too-rare phenomenon: a volume of essays which is, through their interaction and skillful curation, significantly more than the sum of its parts. * SCRIPTORIUM *Future scholars will need to ground themselves in this volume. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *This collection is a great resource for further scholarship on the Auchinleck manuscript and the treasures it contains. * THE MEDIEVAL REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction. The Auchinleck Manuscript: New Perspectives - Susanna Fein The Auchinleck Manuscript Forty Years On - Derek Pearsall Codicology and Translation in the Early Sections of the Auchinleck Manuscript - A S G Edwards The Auchinleck Adam and Eve: An Exemplary Family Story - Cathy Hume A Failure to Communicate: Multilingualism in the Prologue to Of Arthour and of Merlin - Patrick Butler Scribe 3's Literary Project: Pedagogies of Reading in Auchinleck's Booklet 3 - Emily Runde Absent Presence: Auchinleck and Kyng Alisaunder - Venetia Bridges Sir Tristrem, a Few Fragments and the Northern Identity of the Auchinleck Manuscript - Ann Higgins The Invention of King Richard - Marisa Libbon Auchinleck and Chaucer - Helen Phillips Endings in the Auchinleck Manuscript - Siobhain Bly Calkin Paraphs, Piecework and Presentation: The Production Methods of Auchinleck Revisited - Timothy A. Shonk Scribal Corrections in the Auchinleck Manuscript - Miceal F Vaughan Auchinleck 'Scribe 6' and Some Corollary Issues - Ralph Hanna Bibliography
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York Medieval Press Heirs of the Vikings: History and Identity in
Book SynopsisExamination of texts concerning the vikings reveals much about their origin myth and legend. Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both England and Normandy in the tenth century, but narratives discussing their origins diverged significantly. This comparative study explores the depictions of Scandinavia and theevents of the Viking Age in genealogies, origin myths, hagiographies, and charters from the two regions. Analysis of this literary evidence reveals the strategic use of Scandinavian identity by Norman and Anglo-Saxon elites. Countering interpretations which see claims of Viking identity as expressions of contact with Scandinavia, the comparison demonstrates the local, political significance of these claims. In doing so, the book reveals the earliest origins of familiar legends which at once demonize and romanticize the Vikings - and which have their roots in both Anglo-Saxon and Norman traditions. Dr KATHERINE CROSS is a historian of the early Middle Ages at the BritishMuseum and Wolfson College, University of Oxford.Trade ReviewAnyone interested in studying history comparatively will benefit from reading this book, as well as anyone interested in identities and in forms of medieval historical writing. -- EARLY MEDIEVAL EUROPESolid and well-researched. * ENGLISH HISTORICAL REVIEW *This book provides a nuanced reading of how tenth- and eleventh-century societies understood the impact of Viking settlement in England and Normandy and is a must-read for any student of identity and history-writing in these contexts. * FRENCH HISTORY *A stimulating read for anyone interested in the Viking period and its aftermath, as well as medieval identity and ethnicity more specifically. [It is] highly relevant in today's political climate. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *[A]n innovative, well-written, and researched book that opens up several lines of enquiry for future research. . . . Cross has done a great service in challenging some stereotypes about viking identity and presenting new insights on the influence of elites on the per-ceptions of ethnicity in the later Viking Age. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *Katherine Cross has provided a useful and compelling assessment of efforts by the English and Norman elite to engage with the viking past of their respective regions and ruling dynasties, utilizing their ability to influence cultural production to help shape the identities of those dynasties and of those living under their rule. -- Craig Lyons * Comitatus *[...] this is an important and timely book that makes a genuine and original contribution to the field. * H-FRANCE REVIEW *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Problem of a Viking Identity Genealogy: Building a Viking Age Dynasty Origin Myths: A People for a Dynasty Hagiography I: Ruin and Restoration Hagiography II: Saintly Patronage Charter Narratives: Normans, Northumbrians and Northmen Conclusion: Viking Age Narratives and Ethnic Identities Appendix 1: The Date of Fulbert's Vita Romani Appendix 2: The Dates of the Latin Vita Prima Sancti Neoti and the Old English Life of St Neot Bibliography
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York Medieval Press Interpreting MS Digby 86: A Trilingual Book from
Book SynopsisA range of approaches (literary, historical, art-historical, codicological) to this mysterious but hugely significant manuscript. Extravagantly heterogeneous in its contents, Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Digby 86 is an utterly singular production. On its last folio, the scribe signs off with a self-portrait - a cartoonishly-drawn male head wearing a close-fitted hood - and an inscription: "scripsi librum in anno et iii mensibus" (I wrote the book in a year and three months). His fifteen months' labour resulted in one of the most important miscellanies to survive from medieval England: a trilingual marvel of a compilation, with quirky combinations of content that range from religion, to science, to literature of a decidedly secular cast. It holds medical recipes, charms, prayers, prognostications, magic tricks, pious doctrine, a liturgical calendar, religious songs, lively debates, poetry on love and death, proverbs, fables, fabliaux, scurrilous games, and gender-based diatribes. That Digby is from the thirteenth century adds to its appeal, for English literary remnants from before 1300 are all too rare. Scholars on both sides of the vernacular divide, French and English, are deeply intrigued by it. Many of its texts are found nowhere else: for example, the French Arthurian Lay of the Horn, the English fabliau Dame Sirith and the beast fable Fox and Wolf, and the French Strife between Two Ladies (a candid debate on feminine politics). The interpretationsoffered in this volume of its contents, presentation, and ownership, show that there is much to discover in Digby's lively record of the social and spiritual pastimes of a book-owning gentry family. SUSANNA FEIN is Professor of English at Kent State University. CONTRIBUTORS: Maureen Boulton, Neil Cartlidge, Marilyn Corrie, Susanna Fein, Marjorie Harrington, John Hines, Jennifer Jahner, Melissa Julian-Jones, Jenni Nuttall, David Raybin, Delbert Russell, J.D. Sargan, Sheri SmithTrade ReviewMS Digby 86 is indeed a remarkable manuscript, and this volume of essays, part of the York University 'Manuscript Culture in the British Isles' series, is an ideal way to start assessing its variety and importance. * WORCESTERSHIRE RECORDER *The sheer breadth of the battery of approaches assembled is alone enough to recommend the book, especially to younger scholars acquainting themselves with the various aspects of manuscript study in the heterogenous world of thirteenth-century Britain. * COMITATUS *With this volume, we have a valuable and important survey of the diverse and numerous contents of Digby 86 and are now able to see more fully its better-known items-Dame Sirith, the Fox and the Wolf, and Ragemon le Bon- in their literary and material contexts. * MODERN PHILOLOGY *Table of ContentsIntroduction - Susanna Fein Fellow Travellers with Saint Nicholas - Delbert W. Russell Anglo-Norman Religious Instruction in MS Digby 86: Echoes of Lateran IV - Maureen Boulton Latin and Vernacular Prayers in MS Digby 86 - Sheri Smith Science, Medicine, Prognostication: MS Digby 86 as a Household Almanac - Marjorie Harrington Literary Therapeutics: Experimental Knowledge in MS Digby 86 - Jennifer Jahner Petrus Alfonsi, the Disciplina clericalis, and Le Romaunz Peres Aunfour of MS Digby 86 - David Raybin Misogyny in MS Digby 86 - Marilyn Corrie Gender Trouble? Fabliau and Debate in MS Digby 86 - Neil Cartlidge The Middle English Poetry of MS Digby 86 - Susanna Fein MS Digby 86 and Thirteenth-Century Scribal Poetics - Jenni Nuttall The Scarlet Letter: Experimentation, Design, and Copying Practice in the Coloured Capitals of MS Digby 86 - J. D. Sargan Below Malvern: MS Digby 86, the Grimhills, and the Underhills in Their Regional and Social Context - John Hines Below Malvern: MS Digby 86, the Grimhills, and the Underhills in Their Regional and Social Context - Melissa Julian-Jones Bibliography
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York Medieval Press Manuscript Culture and Medieval Devotional
Book SynopsisEssays exploring the great religious and devotional works of the Middle Ages in their manuscript and other contexts. Michael G. Sargent's scholarship on late medieval English devotional literature has been hugely influential on the fields of Middle English literature, religious studies, and manuscript studies. His prolific work on a great range of English and French texts, including visionary writing, devotional guidance, and drama, devoting scrupulous attention to the physical forms in which these texts circulated, has established the scope and impact of religious writing across the social spectrum in England, enabling a nuanced understanding of the complex literary interactions between the cloister and the world. The essays in this volume demonstrate and pay tribute to Sargent's influence, extending and complementing his work on devotional texts and the books in which they traveled. The themes of translation, manuscript transmission and the varieties of devotional practice are to the fore. Inspired by Sargent's work on Love's Middle English translation of pseudo-Bonaventuran devotional texts, some chapters explore other Middle English translations within this tradition, considering the implications of translation strategies for shaping readers' practices, while others examine Carthusian and Birgittine texts as they appear in new contexts, probing the continuing influence of these orders on devotional life and theological controversy. Whether looking at devotional guidance, visionary texts, or hagiography, each contribution works closely with texts in their material contexts, always considering a question central to Sargent's scholarship: how texts gain distinct cultural meanings within particular circumstances of copying, transmission and ownership.Table of Contents'Michael Sargent - An Appreciation' - Jennifer N. Brown and Nicole R. Rice Part I. Manuscript Transmission and Textual Adaptation Beinecke MS 317 and its New Witness to the Latin Door Verses from London Charterhouse: A Story of Carthusian and Birgittine Literary Exchange - Laura Saetveit Miles Martyred Masons: The Legend of the Quattuor Coronati in Some Medieval English Contexts - E. Gordon Whatley What Do the Numbers Mean? The Case for Corpus Studies - A. R. Bennett Cargo in the Arbor: On the Metaphysics of Books and Scholarly Editions - Stephen Kelly Part II. Translated Texts and Devotional Implications Rendering Readers' Soulscapes: Variant Translation of Interiority in the Late Medieval English Pseudo-Bonaventuran Tradition - Ian Johnson Conservative Affectivity and the Middle English Meditationes de Passione Christi - Ryan Perry Reflecting English Lay Piety in the Mirrors of Oxford, Bodleian Library MS e Museo 35 - David Falls Part III. Rhetorical Strategies and Spiritual Transformations 'Trowes þou, fool, þat þis kake of brede Is God?': Spiritual Bread and Bodily Meat in Middle English Women's Visionary Texts - C. Annette Grise Walter Hilton's Confessions in De imagine peccati and Epistola de utilitate et prerogativis religionis - Marleen Cre How Canon Lawyers Read the Bible: Hilton's Scale 2 and the Wordes of Poule - Fiona Somerset Part IV. Texts and Contours of Religious Life Beauty in Liturgy: The Carmelites and the Resurrection - Kevin Alban Otherworldly Visions: Miracles and Prophecy among the English Carthusians, c. 1300-1535 - Marlene Villalobos Hennessy The Body of the Nun and the Syon Abbey 'Additions' - Jennifer N. Brown The Early Sixteenth Century at Syon: Richard Whitford and Elizabeth Gibbs - Mary C. Erler
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York Medieval Press Heirs of the Vikings: History and Identity in
Book SynopsisExamination of text concerning the vikings reveals much about their origin myth and legend. Viking settlers and their descendants inhabited both England and Normandy in the tenth century, but narratives discussing their origins diverged significantly. This comparative study explores the depictions of Scandinavia and theevents of the Viking Age in genealogies, origin myths, hagiographies, and charters from the two regions. Analysis of this literary evidence reveals the strategic use of Scandinavian identity by Norman and Anglo-Saxon elites. Countering interpretations which see claims of Viking identity as expressions of contact with Scandinavia, the comparison demonstrates the local, political significance of these claims. In doing so, the book reveals the earliest origins of familiar legends which at once demonize and romanticize the Vikings - and which have their roots in both Anglo-Saxon and Norman traditions.Trade ReviewThis book provides a nuanced reading of how tenth- and eleventh-century societies understood the impact of Viking settlement in England and Normandy and is a must-read for any student of identity and history-writing in these contexts. * FRENCH HISTORY *A stimulating read for anyone interested in the Viking period and its aftermath, as well as medieval identity and ethnicity more specifically. [It is] highly relevant in today's political climate. * MEDIEVAL ARCHAEOLOGY *[A]n innovative, well-written, and researched book that opens up several lines of enquiry for future research. . . . Cross has done a great service in challenging some stereotypes about viking identity and presenting new insights on the influence of elites on the per-ceptions of ethnicity in the later Viking Age. * JOURNAL OF ENGLISH AND GERMANIC PHILOLOGY *Table of ContentsIntroduction: The Problem of Viking Identity Genealogy: Building a Viking Age Dynasty Origin Myths: A People for a Dynasty Hagiography I: Ruin and Restoration Hagiography II: Saintly Patronage Charter Narratives: Normans, Northumbrians and Northmen Conclusion: Viking Age Narratives and Ethnic Identities Appendix 1: The Date of Fulbert's Vita Romani Appendix 2: The Dates of the Latin Vita Prima Sancti Neoti and the Old English Life of St Neot Bibliography
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Liverpool University Press Ovid: Heroides I: Introduction and Latin Text,
Book SynopsisThe Heroides, a collection of elegiac poems written as letters, fused Ovid’s interests in erotics and myth into a new and unique genre, in which experiments with epistolary form and the psychology of first-person narrative would go on to have a profound influence on European literature. This two-volume edition of 1898 remains an essential resource for the poems; but it has long been difficult to obtain. It contains what is still the only detailed commentary in English on the whole collection, as well as extensive discussion of the text and its transmission. It also offers the full text of the translation of Heroides into Greek prose by the Byzantine scholar Maximus Planudes.Trade ReviewBristol Phoenix Press (an imprint of The Exeter press) rightly decided to include this title in their Classic Editions Series, whose aim is to reprint important old works on Greek and Latin authors with new introductions. It now consists of two complementary and handy volumes, opposed to the bulky and hence unwieldy single volume of the old editions. A most sensible decision of the new editors has been to preserve the pagination of the original edition, so as not to complicate cross-referencing. K.'s introduction...constitutes a clear, concise and illuminating presentation, which will surely prove very useful for anyone interested in the Heroides. In addition to K.'s new introduction, a most welcome addition to this new reprint of P.'s work is the bibliography complied by K. himself. Despite the passing of more than a century, P.'s edition of the Heroides remains a good starting point for the examination of the work...Both volumes are elegantly produced and reasonably priced. Bristol Phoenix Press and Prof. Duncan F. Kennedy are to be commended for undertaking the task of making this classic piece of scholarship on the Heroides easily accessible. Gnomon, Vol. 79, issue 5Table of Contents Contents Introduction to New Edition Palmer, Purser and Housman Text, transmission and authenticity Epistolarity Intertextuality The 'authors' of the Heroides: the politics of gender and tradition Notes Select Bibliography Original Preface Original Introduction I Ovid and his Heroides II The Chief Manuscripts III The Translation of Planudes IV Mr. Housman's Emendations P.OVIDI NASONIS HEROIDES (Text) MAXIMI PLANUDIS METAPHRASIS
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Liverpool University Press Ovid: Heroides II: Commentary
Book SynopsisThe Heroides, a collection of elegiac poems written as letters, fused Ovid’s interests in erotics and myth into a new and unique genre, in which experiments with epistolary form and the psychology of first-person narrative would go on to have a profound influence on European literature. This two-volume edition of 1898 remains an essential resource for the poems; but it has long been difficult to obtain. It contains what is still the only detailed commentary in English on the whole collection, as well as extensive discussion of the text and its transmission. It also offers the full text of the translation of Heroides into Greek prose by the Byzantine scholar Maximus Planudes.Trade ReviewBristol Phoenix Press (an imprint of The Exeter press) rightly decided to include this title in their Classic Editions Series, whose aim is to reprint important old works on Greek and Latin authors with new introductions. It now consists of two complementary and handy volumes, opposed to the bulky and hence unwieldy single volume of the old editions. A most sensible decision of the new editors has been to preserve the pagination of the original edition, so as not to complicate cross-referencing. K.’s introduction…constitutes a clear, concise and illuminating presentation, which will surely prove very useful for anyone interested in the Heroides. In addition to K.’s new introduction, a most welcome addition to this new reprint of P.’s work is the bibliography complied by K. himself. Despite the passing of more than a century, P.’s edition of the Heroides remains a good starting point for the examination of the work…Both volumes are elegantly produced and reasonably priced. Bristol Phoenix Press and Prof. Duncan F. Kennedy are to be commended for undertaking the task of making this classic piece of scholarship on the Heroides easily accessible. * Gnomon, Vol. 79, issue 5 *Table of Contents Commentary: 'Heroides' 1. Penelope to Ulysses 2. Phyllis to Demophoon 3. Briseis to Achilles 4. Phaedra to Hippolytus 5. Oenone to Paris 6. Hypsipyle to Jason 7. Dido to Aeneas 8. Hermione to Orestes 9. Deianira to Hercules 10. Ariadne to Theseus 11. Canace to Macareus 12. Medea to Jason 13. Laodamia to Prostesilaus 14. Hypermnestra to Lynceus 15. Sappho to Phaon 16. Paris to Helen 17. Helen to Paris 18. Leander to Hero 19. Hero to Leander 20. Acontius to Cydippe 21. Cydippe to Acontius Appendix 1. On Hiatus 2. Coniecturae Bentleianae Index
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Liverpool University Press Selections from the Attic Orators: Antiphon,
Book SynopsisThis edition was designed by R.C. Jebb – one of the greatest classical scholars Britain has ever produced – as a companion to his two-volume monograph Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (1876). The selection was meticulously made to illustrate the ‘successive steps in the process by which a language of most elastic resource was gradually adapted to a certain set of purposes’. The authors represented, with their varied styles, serve to bridge the gap that lies between the prose of Gorgias and Thucydides and that of Demosthenes. At the same time the passages are specifically selected for their intrinsic social and historical interest to readers. That the edition was still in regular use almost a hundred years later, says much for its quality. This reissue carries a substantial new introduction in which Pat Easterling assesses Jebb’s scholarship in general and the place of the Attic orators within it, while Michael Edwards writes more specifically about the edition’s strengths and influences.Table of Contents NEW INTRODUCTION 'Selections in context' Jebb's standing in the field of oratory Jebb's 'Selections' Jebb's aims Subsequent developments Notes to the introduction Select Bibliography Preface to Revised Edition, 1888 Original Contents List TEXT 'Selections from The Attic Orators': Antiphon Andocides Lysias Isocrates Isaeus NOTES INDEX I Greek INDEX II Matters
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Liverpool University Press The Politics of Greek Tragedy
Book SynopsisThis book addresses the political aspects of fifth-century Athenian tragedies, setting them in their immediate historical context. It is an important topic and one that only rarely and sporadically finds its way into accessible accounts of Greek tragedy. Carter sets out to elucidate to a student and general audience how and why Athenian tragedy should be read as a political art form. The political content of ancient drama has been the subject of much scholarly debate in the last thirty years, but much of that debate is highly technical and inaccessible. Carter demonstrates that like the contemporary satirical comedy of Aristophanes, or indeed the sculptures of the Parthenon, tragedy involved a highly political dimension.He provides stimulating and provocative analyses, from varied points of view, of the political aspect in several individual tragedies (always referred to in modern translations). To this he adds a chapter on the ‘reception’ of political tragedy, alluding to theatre and film productions of the Greek plays that have taken an overtly political stance within a modern context.Trade ReviewIt is a real strength of the book that he illustrates by discussion of particular approaches, including his own, work in action. He puts theory into practice. This will prove very helpful to sixth formers and undergraduates alike. Overall the standard of accuracy is high, and the range of reading evinced is impressive. The book is highly recommended to schools and universities alike. James Morwood, The Journal of Classics Teaching, No. 14 SummerA well-written contribution to the discussion on the nature of this much-studied genre, directed at students and the general reader as well as specialists. The first part addresses primarily the student while the main chapters engage in scholarly audience as well. 'The Politics of Greek Tragedy' takes an important step forward in the debate on the nature of Greek tragedy. What is really good is Carter’s suggestion that we are dealing with a theatre of the establishment, that it is not particular democratic and that “behind the dramatic events there are strong political values. Synnove Des Bouvrie, Bryn Mawr Classical Review * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *Carter succeeds admirably. He makes a topic that is difficult and potentially confusing for the non-specialist, comprehensible and highly readable. The book combines some very basic introductory material with some fairly sophisticated arguments about Greek tragedy. While its primary audience is students, there is something here for specialists as well. Carter’s book is admirable for the clear was it introduces this topic to the general reader [...] as an introductory survey book for the general reader, it is an unqualified success. Leona MacLeod, Scholia Reviews, no. 19 (24) * Scholia Reviews, no. 19 (24) *Table of ContentsPreface 1. Introduction 2. Some views, their implications 3. The political shape of tragedy 4. Four political tragedies 5. The political reception of Greek tragedy Notes Appendix A: Chronology Appendix B: Authors and surviving works Appendix C: Some heroic genealogy Appendix D: Glossary of Greek terms Further Reading Index
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Liverpool University Press Ovid: Ibis
Book SynopsisOvid’s rarely studied Ibis is an elegiac companion-piece to the Tristia and Ex Ponto written after his banishment to the Black Sea in AD 8. Modelled on a poem of the same name by the Hellenistic poet Callimachus, Ibis stands out as an artistically contrived explosion of vitriol against an unnamed enemy who is characterised in terms of the Egyptian bird with its unprepossessing habits. Based in a tradition of curse-ritual, it is the most difficult of Ovid’s poems to penetrate. Robinson Ellis’s edition remains an indispensable – if typically eccentric – platform for the study of the poem’s obscurities. Indeed Ellis deserves the primary credit for bringing Ibis back from obscurity into the light of day.This reissue of Ellis’s 1881 edition includes a new introduction by Gareth Williams setting the edition in the context of earlier and later developments in scholarship. Ellis’s edition not only made a significant contribution to research into the Ibis, it is an important representative of a particular vein of scholarship prevalent in nineteenth-century Latin study.Table of Contents PROLEGOMENA 1. De causis Ibidis Ouidianae 2. De Callimachea Ibide 3. De significatione Ibidis 4. De fontibus Ibidis Ouidianae 5. De distributione fabularum Ibidis 6. De tralatis ex Aegypto 7. Ouidiana Ibis a quibus citata uel expressa uel commemorata fuerit 8. De Codicibus 9. De Scholiis IBIS SCHOLIA COMMENTARIVS EXCVRSVS INDEX
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Liverpool University Press Conington's Virgil: Georgics
Book SynopsisJohn Conington’s three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets. The whole work is now being reissued in six affordable paperbacks, with new introductions setting the commentary in its context. Well into the twentieth century Conington’s Virgil remained the sine qua non for school and undergraduate students and their teachers; Conington’s commentary is remarkably close and uncompromising in its engagement with the detail of Virgil’s Latin, as well as its literary sensitivity; it still has much to offer the modern reader. This volume contains Virgil’s text of the Georgics; Conington’s introduction to and commentary on the Georgics; Philip Hardie’s general assessment of Conington; Monica Gale’s introduction to the Georgics, and also includes Conington’s index.Table of Contents Introduction to The Works of Virgil PHILIP HARDIE Bibliography PHILIP HARDIE Introduction to the Georgics MONICA GALE Bibliography MONICA GALE From The Works of Virgil Volume I Preface to Volume I (fifth edition) Preface to Volume I (second edition) Introduction to the Georgics GEORGICS (Text and Commentary) On the later Didactic poets of Rome Index
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Liverpool University Press Conington's Virgil: Aeneid III - VI
Book SynopsisJohn Conington’s three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets. The whole work is now being reissued in six affordable paperbacks, with new introductions setting the commentary in its context. Well into the twentieth century Conington’s Virgil remained the sine qua non for school and undergraduate students and their teachers; Conington’s commentary is remarkably close and uncompromising in its engagement with the detail of Virgil’s Latin, as well as its literary sensitivity; it still has much to offer the modern reader. This volume includes Virgil’s text and Conington’s commentary on Books III–VI, along with Conington’s index to Books I–VI. It also includes Philip Hardie’s general assessment of Conington and Anne Rogerson’s introduction to Conington’s Aeneid.Table of Contents Introduction to The Works of Virgil PHILIP HARDIE Bibliography PHILIP HARDIE Introduction to Conington's Aeneid ANNE ROGERSON Bibliography ANNE ROGERSON From The Works of Virgil Volume II Preface to Volume II (fourth edition) Preface to Volume II (second and third editions) AENEID Books III-VI (Text and Commentary) Index to Books I-VI
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Liverpool University Press Conington's Virgil: Aeneid VII - IX
Book SynopsisJohn Conington’s three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets. The whole work is now being reissued in six affordable paperbacks, with new introductions setting the commentary in its context. Well into the twentieth century Conington’s Virgil remained the sine qua non for school and undergraduate students and their teachers; Conington’s commentary is remarkably close and uncompromising in its engagement with the detail of Virgil’s Latin, as well as its literary sensitivity; it still has much to offer the modern reader. This volume includes Virgil’s text of the Aeneid Books VII–IX and Conington’s commentary on Books VII–IX; Conington’s introduction to Books VII–XII. It also includes Philip Hardie’s general assessment of Conington and Anne Rogerson’s introduction to Conington’s Aeneid.Table of Contents Introduction to The Works of Virgil PHILIP HARDIE Bibliography PHILIP HARDIE Introduction to Conington's Aeneid ANNE ROGERSON Bibliography ANNE ROGERSON From The Works of Virgil Volume III Preface to Volume III (third edition) Preface to Volume III (second edition) AENEID Books VII-IX (Text and Commentary)
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Liverpool University Press Conington's Virgil: Aeneid X - XII
Book SynopsisJohn Conington’s three-volume edition of The Works of Virgil, begun in 1852, has long been unavailable except in rare second-hand sets. The whole work is now being reissued in six affordable paperbacks, with new introductions setting the commentary in its context. Well into the twentieth century Conington’s Virgil remained the sine qua non for school and undergraduate students and their teachers; Conington’s commentary is remarkably close and uncompromising in its engagement with the detail of Virgil’s Latin, as well as its literary sensitivity; it still has much to offer the modern reader. This volume includes Virgil’s text and Conington’s commentary on Books X–XII, along with Conington’s index to Books VII–XII. It also includes Philip Hardie’s general assessment of Conington and Anne Rogerson’s introduction to Conington’s Aeneid.Table of Contents Introduction to The Works of Virgil PHILIP HARDIE Bibliography PHILIP HARDIE Introduction to Conington's Aeneid ANNE ROGERSON Bibliography ANNE ROGERSON From The Works of Virgil Volume III Preface to Volume III (third edition) Preface to Volume III (second edition) AENEID Books X-XII (Text and Commentary) Excursus to Book XII On Ribbeck's Prolegomena On Madvig's Emendations in Virgil Additional Notes on Virgil Index to Books VII-XII
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Liverpool University Press Gilbert Murray's Euripides: The Trojan Women and
Book SynopsisIn the story of the reception of Greek tragedy throughout the English-speaking world, Murray is a figure of immense importance. He unlocked the gates of commercial theatre to its performance - and its performance in verse - on both sides of the Atlantic, bringing to the project his enormous personal prestige, especially after his election to the Regius Chair of Greek at Oxford (1908).His Oxford Classical Text of all the complete plays of Euripides lent scholarly weight to his theatrical enterprise; for, passionate though he was about communicating Greek culture to the widest possible public (by the 1920s over a quarter of a million copies of the translations had been sold), he could never be written off as a mere popularizer. Most significant of all, he laid down in the early years of the twentieth century the terms on which scholar and public alike have viewed Greek drama throughout its course and into the twenty-first. It was Murray who insisted, from the pulpit of the popular stage, on the political nature of Greek tragedy (first connecting Troades with the fate of Melos); on its historical resonances (Troades chiming with his own distaste for British conduct of the Boer War); on its social urgency (his support for women's suffrage informing his Medea); on the religious and anthropological assumptions that permeate it (his introduction to Bacchae acknowledging his debt to Jane Harrison); and on the remarkable psychological truth in its delineation of character (emphasized in his notes on Electra). And on all this he insisted as a man with a keen instinct for the theatre, who was deferred to alike by actors (Sibyl Thorndike), by directors (Granville Barker) and by fellow playwrights (George Bernard Shaw). His was the voice which had something wonderful to communicate and which could not be ignored.Table of Contents Frontispiece Publisher's Note Introduction Works cited Endnotes Appendix The Trojan Women Introductory Note Translation Notes Medea Introduction Translation Notes Hippolytus Introduction Translation Notes Electra Introduction Translation Notes The Bacchae Translation Introductory Note Notes
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Liverpool University Press Aeschylus' Supplices: Play and Trilogy (second
Book SynopsisThis book's first appearance (1969) was a full response to the publication (in 1952) of a papyrus fragment from Oxyrhynchus which indicated a late production date (in the 460s BC) for Aeschylus' Supplices, thus upsetting the previous scholarly consensus that it was an early work - indeed the earliest Greek tragedy to survive. There was, the book argued, no longer good reason to suppose that the play belonged to an early stage in its author's development. A final chapter also examined the evidence for reconstruction of the other, lost plays of the trilogy.The present (and first paperback) edition remains essentially unchanged, though a new preface has been added to take account of scholarship since 1969. Few would now argue, as they used to, that Supplices belongs to the 490s but some still have the feeling that it looks like an early play; they attempt to put it back into the 470s. Stylistic and structural evidence, itself often subjective, is not strong enough to place the play in one decade or exclude it from the previous one; but Garvie remains convinced that, even without the additional testimony of the papyrus, all the internal evidence points to the 460s.While the view that Supplices is very early may now have died, some of the salutary lessons of P.Oxy 2256 fgt. 3 have still to be learnt and it is timely for this re-issue to be presented to a new generation of Aeschylean students and scholars.Table of Contents Preface to first Edition Preface to second (2005) Edition New Bibliography Chapter I: The Papyrus Chapter II: Style Chapter III: Structure Chapter IV: Background Chapter V: The Trilogy Appendix: The Punishment of the Danaids in the Underworld Bibliography Indexes
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Liverpool University Press Aetna
Book SynopsisThe pseudo-Virgilian Aetna poem has fascinated textual critics for centuries on account of its badly corrupted state. But it is fascinating for its content as well. It appears to date from the first half of the first century AD sometime prior to 79, for it describes Vesuvius as extinct. The highly original account of a volcano with scientific, if eccentric, views of volcanic activity, is enlivened by vivid imagery and digressions such as a section in praise of physical science and the tale of two brothers who rescued their parents from an eruption. A vigorous and enthusiastic poem, it repays further study within the didactic tradition. Robinson Ellis, according to The Times the 'greatest English Latinist' of his age, worked on the poem for decades, and his 1901 edition, which includes a translation and full commentary, constitutes a significant contribution to the study of the poem. His work remains of interest today, both to scholars working on the poem and to historians of classical scholarship.In her new introduction to this reissue of the complete Latin text and translation of the poem with Ellis's commentary, Katharina Volk discusses Ellis’s achievement in the context of his career and as part of the history of critical engagement with the Aetna. She also provides an overview of work on the poem since Ellis's edition, and a bibliography.Trade ReviewThe introduction to this volume is ably provided by Katharina Volk ...this reprinting of Ellis’ edition is to be welcomed. * Harry Hine Aestimatio *Table of Contents Introduction to Robinson Ellis's Aetna by Katharina Volk Bibliography by Katharina Volk Preface Contents Prologue TEXT OF AETNA WITH TRANSLATION COMMENTARY Excursus on vv. 6, 7 Excursus on v. 515 Index
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Liverpool University Press Virgil's Aeneid: A Critical Description
Book SynopsisThe aim of this important and still valuable book – first published in 1968 but never before available in paperback – is, quite simply, to help all who approach Virgil’s Aeneid seriously, whether in the original Latin or in English translation, to read it with discernment and appreciation. It offers itself as neither a handbook nor a commentary, but as a critical description of the poem’s structure and aspects of its composition. It begins with a preliminary exploration of the poem’s central purpose; a careful reconstruction of its literary and historical context (following the battle of Actium in 31 BC which made Augustus Caesar master of the Roman world); and a description of the main outlines of its structure. At the book’s core is a detailed analysis of each of the epic’s twelve books, with particular emphasis on the later, less often read ones; and this is followed by two further chapters, one dealing with Virgil’s use of form and some related theoretical problems, the other with a closer examination of the poem’s verbal fabric.Table of Contents Chapter 1: The Heroic Impulse Chapter 2: Genesis - I. What is the Aeneid about? II. The Task and its Problems III. The Problems Solved Chapter 3: Structure - I. General Description II. Structure of the Twelve Books III. The Episodes IV. Projection of the Narrator into his Narrative V. Parallel and Suspended Narrative VI. Tempo of the Narrative: Tenses Chapter 4: The Twelve Books Chapter 5: Form and Technique - Part 1: Form I. Not only Homer II. Difference in attitude between Virgil and Homer III. The Exploitation of Form IV. Impure Poetry Part 2: Technique I. Gods II. Characterization and Motivation III. Parallel Divine and Psychological Motivation IV. Fate Part 3: The Contribution of Tragedy I. Tragic Attitude II. Tragic Suspense III. Tragic Irony and Insight IV. Implicit Comment Chapter 6: Style - I. Words Alone II. Words in Action (i) The Tradition: (a) Ennius and the Old Poets (b) Catullus and the New Poets (c) A Common Style (ii) Innovation - callida iunctura. (a) Latent Metaphor; (b) Archaism brought about by Context; (c) Etymological Puns (iii) Ambiguity (iv) Syntactical Ambiguity III. The Virgilian Sentence (i) Metre; (ii) Theme and Variation (iii) Subordinate Clauses (iv) Imagery
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Liverpool University Press Reading Catullus
Book SynopsisOf all the Roman poets Catullus is the most accessible for the modern reader. His poems range from the sublimely beautiful to the scatologically disgusting, from the world of heroic epic poetry to the dirt of the Roman streets. This accessible book, which assumes no prior knowledge of the poet or of Roman poetry in general, explores Catullus in all his many guises. In six concise chapters Godwin deals with the cultural background to Catullus’ poetic production, its literary context, the role of love, Alexandrian learning and obscenity and, in the final chapter, considers the coherence and rationale of the collection as a whole. Each chapter is illustrated by readings of a number of poems, chosen to give a representative overview of Catullus’ poety. All quotations from the text are translated and a brief discursive section of ‘Further Reading’ is provided at the end of each chapter. A timeline giving dates of authors mentioned and full bibliography is also supplied.Trade Review... a very sensible and far-reaching introduction to Catullus. There is plenty in this book for a sixth-former to appreciate and be entertained by, and it would make a splendid companion to a Catullus prescription. Journal of Classics Teaching, No. 17, SummerTable of ContentsPreface Timeline of events and authors mentioned 1. The writer's world 2. The poet at work 3. The life of love 4. Doctus poeta - the uses of learning 5. Obscenity and humour 6. First and last things Notes Further Reading Index of Passages Index of Catullus Poems General Index
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Liverpool University Press The Tragedies of Sophocles
Book SynopsisThis book provides separate discussions of each of Sophocles’ seven plays: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. It sets these between an essay that outlines modern approaches to Greek tragedy and a final chapter that spotlights a key moment in the reception of each work. Focusing on the tragedies’ dramatic power and the challenges with which they confront an audience, Morwood refuses to confine them within a supposedly Sophoclean template. They are seven unique works, only alike in the fact that they are all major masterpieces.Focusing on the tragedies’ dramatic power and the challenges with which they confront an audience, Morwood refuses to confine them within a supposedly Sophoclean template. They are seven unique works, only alike in the fact that they are all major masterpieces.Trade ReviewThis stimulating, slim volume works well both as an introduction to the seven tragedies and as a series of sharp, generous readings.Plays International Magazine, December/January 2008/9'The Tragedies of Sophocles' provides a useful reference for both pupils and teachers studying the works of this tragedian. The writing style is lucid and accessible and sweeps the reader along in an enthusiastic examination of Sophocles’ purpose and message…it is a quick, yet informative read. [...] the very useful discussion of the individual plays makes this a worthwhile and valuable book, and I would wholeheartedly recommend it for both teachers and pupils.Journal of Classics Teaching, 17, Summer 2009D’une écriture claire et concise, il est aisément accessible aux non-spécialistes et ne suppose pas d’être initié à la langue grecque. Quant aux connoisseurs, ils apprécieront que soient posées les bonnes questions.L’Antiquité Classique, 79Table of Contents Preface 1. Taking bearings 2. 'Ajax' 3. 'Women of Trachis' 4 'Antigone' 5. 'Oedipus the King' 6. 'Electra' 7. 'Philoctetes' 8. 'Oedipus at Colonus' 9. Afterlife 'Ajax': the first Cambridge Greek play Martin Crimp’s 'Cruel and Tender' Jean Anouilh’s 'Antigone' Pier Paolo Pasolini’s 'Edipo Re' The Strauss / Hofmannsthal 'Elektra' Seamus Heaney’s 'The Cure at Troy' 'Oedipus at Colonus' and 'Samson Agonistes' Notes Suggestions for further reading and bibliography Glossary Index
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Liverpool University Press Tragedy, Euripides and Euripideans
Book SynopsisThis volume brings together forty years of scholarship by one of the major scholars of Greek tragedy and of Euripides over several decades. Of the twenty papers collected here, thirteen explore tragedy in general and Euripides in particular, but with emphasis on textual questions – transmission, interpretation, verbal criticism – and dramatic form. The other seven evaluate important Euripidean scholars from the 17th to the 19th centuries including Joshua Barnes, Jeremiah Markland, S. Musgrave, Peter Elmsley and J. H. Monk. The book’s material is divided into three thematic sections: ‘Tragedy’, ‘Euripides’ and ‘Euripideans’. All papers have been corrected and revised, and supplemented with further matter, chiefly a full bibliography of Christopher Collard’s publications (up to 2007).Trade ReviewFundamental, authoritative, and ground-breaking on their first publication, these papers, now thoroughly revised and updated, ranging over problems both general and complex in the study of Greek tragedy, the history of classical scholarship, and above all Euripides, form a volume of rare excellence and lasting value. James DiggleThis handsome volume, its cover splendidly embossed with a silver E from a woodblock in Joshua Barnes’ Euripides of 1694, is rightly heralded by the leading Cambridge Euripidean James Diggle as “a volume of rare excellence and lasting value”. All students and scholars interested in Greek tragedy and the history of classical scholarship should certainly get hold of it. James Morwood, The Journal of Classics Teaching, No. 14La richesse et la sûreté des informations rassemblées font de ce livre une mine de connaissances pour le lecteur, à quelque niveau qu’il se situe. On se plait à suivre la demarche scientifique exigeante d’un chercheur dont le but ultime est de nous fair partager son estime et son admiration raisonée pour l’œuvre des Tragiques d’Athènes.Revue des Études GrecquesTable of Contents Preface Acknowledgements Tragedy 1. The Study of Greek Tragedy [1976] 2. On Stichomythia [1980] 3. On the Tragedian Chaeremon [1970] 4. The 'Pirithous' Fragments [1993] 5 Athenaeus, the Epitome, Eustathius and Quotations from Tragedy [1969] 6. Review of James Diggle, 'Tragicorum Graecorum Fragmenta Selecta' (Oxford, 1998) [1999] Euripides 7. Three Scribes in Laurentianus 32.2? [1963] 8. The Funeral Oration in Euripides’ 'Supplices' [1972] 9. The Date of Euripides’ 'Suppliants' and the Date of Tim Rice’s Chess [1990] 10. The Stasimon Euripides, 'Hecuba' 905–52 [1990] 11. A Proposal for a Lexicon to Euripides (with incidental remarks on the methodology of specialist dictionaries) [1971] 12. Review of James Diggle, 'Euripidis Fabulae' Tomus II (Oxford Classical Text, 1981) and 'Studies on the Text of Euripides' (Oxford, 1981) [1984] 13. Review of James Diggle, 'Euripidis Fabulae' Tomus I (Oxford Classical Text, 1984) [1986] Euripideans 14. Two Early Collectors of Euripidean Fragments: Dirk Canter (1545–1617) and Joshua Barnes (1654–1712) [1995] 15. Jeremiah Markland (1693–1776) [1976] 16. Samuel Musgrave (1732–80) [2004] 17. Peter Elmsley (1774–1825) [2004] 18. James Henry Monk (1784–1856) [2004] 19. Charles Badham (1813–84) [1993] 20. F.A. Paley (1816–88) [1996] Christopher Collard: Publications Index
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Classical Press of Wales Satyr Drama
Book SynopsisThe esteem in which satyr drama was held in antiquity arouses curiosity and controversy. This title explores questions central to the genre, including how did satyr drama relate to comedy and tragedy; how closely was it tied to its tragic trilogy; and, how did the Athenians react to pro-satyric drama, such as the Alcestis.
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Classical Press of Wales Approaches to Homer Ancient and Modern
Book SynopsisIncludes ten essays that approach Homer with insights gained from the modern disciplines of psychology and anthropology, narratology, oral theory and cognitive research. This title focuses both on literary technique in the poems, and on the portrayal of characters and peoples, central and marginal.
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Classical Press of Wales In Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice: The
Book SynopsisIn "Search of the Sorcerer's Apprentice" is the first book in English to be devoted to Lucian's "Philopseudes or Lover of Lies" (ca. 170s AD). It comprises an extensive discussion, with full translation, on this engaging and satirical Greek text with its ten tales of magic and ghosts. One of these is the famous story of "The Sorcerer's Apprentice", and this conveys the flavour of the rest. In other tales a plague of snakes is blasted with a miraculous scorching breath, a woman is drawn to her admirer by an animated cupid doll, and a haunted house is cleansed of its monstrous ghost. The Philopseudes stands at the intersection of three of the liveliest fields in the study of antiquity: magic, traditional narratives, and the Lucianic oeuvre itself. Ogden's cross-fertilising expertise in all three of these fields enables him to build sophisticated analyses for each of the tales and to place them sensitively in their historical, cultural and literary contexts. Among the themes of the work are Lucian's methods of adapting motifs from traditional narratives, and the text's overlooked Cynic voice.
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Classical Press of Wales Cicero on the Attack
Book SynopsisIncludes essays that examine the techniques of Cicero's verbal aggression.
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Classical Press of Wales Virgil the Partisan
Book SynopsisSince its first appearance in 2008, this book has changed the landscape of Virgilian studies. Analysing closely the logic and the literary genres of Virgil's three poems, it politely confronts the modern orthodoxy that Virgil signalled distaste for the methods of his ruler, Octavian-Augustus.
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Classical Press of Wales Epic Facework
Book SynopsisReveals that at the beginnings of Greek literature Homer's audience is expected to appreciate psychology and self-control of a very high order. This book is suitable for literary analysts, historians, anthropologists, and archaeologists. It can help them learn about the general level of sophistication of the historic and prehistoric societies.
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