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Book SynopsisThe poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of admiration, it has found numerous detractors and defenders among classicists and Latin literary critics. This volume explores the scholarly approaches to late Latin poetry that have developed over the last 40 years, and it seeks especially to develop, complement and challenge the seminal concept of the Jeweled Style' proposed by Michael Roberts in 1989. While Roberts's monograph has long been a vade mecum within the world of late antique literary studies, a critical reassessment of its validity as a concept is overdue.
This volume invites established and emerging scholars from different research traditions to return to the influential conclusions put forward by Roberts. It asks them to examine the continued relevance of The Jeweled Style and to suggest new ways to engage it. In a joint effort, the nineteen chapters of this volume d
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When Michael Roberts’ The Jeweled Style appeared in 1989, those few of us then studying late ancient literary culture knew that our field would never be the same. Revisiting Roberts’ book thirty years later, this volume articulates a sociology of literary late antiquity, while proving the staying power of Roberts’ vision and voice, applying his method in ways that will animate, and alter, late ancient literary studies going forward. If a work of extraordinary scholarship can also be a page-turner, this is it—a fascinating, and fabulous, collection. -- Joseph Pucci, Professor of Classics and in the Program in Medieval Studies, Brown University, USA
Table of Contents
List of Figures List of Contributors Preface and Acknowledgments Notes on Texts and Translations Abbreivations Introduction Joshua Hartman (Bowdoin College, USA) and Helen Kaufmann (independent scholar) Part I: The Formal Features of the Jeweled Style 1. The Decadent Prehistory of the Jeweled Style Ian Fielding (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA) 2. The Greek Jeweled Style Fotini Hadjittofi (University of Lisbon, Portugal) 3. Gilding the Lily: The Jeweled Style in Prose Panegyric Catherine Ware (University College Cork, Ireland) 4. Learning the Jeweled Style Frances Foster (University of Cambridge, UK) 5. Quantitative Approaches to Late Latin Poetics: Enumeration and Congeries Joshua Hartman (Bowdoin College, USA) and Jacob Lavernier (independent scholar) 6. The Jeweled Style and Silver Latin Scholarship Ruth Parkes (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK) 7. The Jeweled Style in Early Medieval Poetry Cillian O’Hogan (University of Toronto, Canada) 8. Digression, Variety and Unity in (Late) Latin Poetry Helen Kaufmann (independent scholar) Part II: The Jeweled Style and Late Antique Aesthetics 9. Metaphor Squared Christoph Schubert (University of Erlangen, Germany) 10. An ‘Unjeweled’ Christian style? A Look at Augustine’s Confessions Jesús Hernández Lobato (University of Salamanca, Spain) 11. The Cento and Scripture: An Early Christian Debate over the Poetics of Exegesis David Ungvary (Bard College, USA) 12. Jeweled Sea Storm Descriptions in Zeno of Verona (and Juvencus) Francesco Lubian (University of Padova, Italy) 13. Allusive Clusters and Biblical Configurations in Dracontius, De laudibus dei: A Christian Jeweled Style? Elena Castelnuovo (independent scholar) 14. Vergil’s Children: Patterns in Christian Centos and Responses to Vergil’s Fourth Eclogue Scott McGill (Rice University, USA) 15. Architectural Ecphrasis in Venantius Fortunatus: Beyond the Jeweled Style Carole Newlands (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA) 16. The Jeweled Style in Epigram Bret Mulligan (Haverford College, USA) 17. The Jeweled Style and Neoplatonism Andreas Abele (University of Tübingen, Germany) Epilogue: The Jeweled Style in Context Michael Roberts (Wesleyan Memorial University, USA) References
