{"product_id":"vergil-in-the-middle-ages-9780691026787","title":"Vergil in the Middle Ages","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eTreating Vergil's poetry as a foundation of Latin European identity, this title seeks to give a complete history of the medieval conception of the preeminent poet.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIntroduction   Jan M. Ziolkowski   Author's Preface to the First Edition   PART I THE VERGIL OF LITERARY TRADITION   CHAPTER I.--Importance for Vergil's reputation of the Aeneid. Predilection of   the Romans for Epic Poetry. National   character of the Aeneid, and its connection   with the Roman sentiment. First impressions produced by the Poem   CHAPTER II.--Value of the grammatical,   rhetorical and erudite elements in the Poem,   and importance of these features from the   conteemporary point of view. Nature of the   earliest critical works on Vergil, and   character of the first judgments passed on him   CHAPTER III.--Proofs of the Poet's popularity   in the best days of the Empire. Vergil in the schools and the grammatical treatises   CHAPTER IV.--Vergil in the rhetorical   schools. Reaction in favour of the earlier   writers; effect of this upon Vergil; Fronto   and his followers, Aulus Gellius. Veneration   felt for Vergil; the Sortes Vergilianae   CHAPTER V.--The Time of the Decadence.   Popularity of Vergil. The Centos. The   Commentators, Aelius, Donatus and Servius.   Philosophical interpretations. Exaggerations   of the historical allegory in the Bucolics.   Vergil regarded as a rhetorician; the   rhetorical commentary of Tib. Cl. Donatus.   Macrobius, the idea of Vergil's omniscience   and infallibility. Vergil as an authority on   grammar; Donatus and Priscian. Nature of   Vergil's reputation at the downfall of the Empire   CHAPTER VI.--Christianity and the Middle Ages. Survival of the ancient scholastic   traditions; the limits of this. Vergil as   the incarnation of grammar. Position of   Vergil and the other classical pagan writers   in the midst of enthusiasm for christianity   CHAPTER VII.--Vergil as prophet of Christ   CHAPTER VIII.--The philosophical allegory.   Nature and causes of the allegorical   interpretation of Vergil; Fulgentius; Bernard   de Chartres; John of Salisbury; Dante   CHAPTER IX.--Grammatical and rhetorical   studies in the Middle Ages; use made of   Vergil in these   CHAPTER X.--The Vergilian biography; its   vicissitudes; literary legends as to his   life; distinction betwen these and the   popular legends. Rhetorical exercises in   verse on Vergilian themes   CHAPTER XI.--Medieval Latin poetry in   classical form. Small success of the monks   in this kind of poetry. Rhythmical poetry   CHAPTER XII.--Clerical conception of   antiquity in the Middle Ages. Vergil's   position in this conception   CHAPTER XIII.--The causes that led to the   Renaissance. The reawakening of the Laity.   Popular literature. The features in this   peculiar to Italy   CHAPTER XIV.--Dante. Character and tendency   of his intellectual activity. Limits of his   classical culture. The points in this where   he approaches the medieval monks and where he   differs from them. Consideration of the   degree to which he was a forerunner of the   Renaissance. His felling for classical   poetry. The ancient Roman Empire and Dante's   Italian partriotism. Reason of the sympathy   between Dante and Vergil. The bello stile of   Dante and Vergil   CHAPTER XV.--Vergil in the Divina Commedia. Historical and symbolical reasons for his   appearance there. Why Vergil, and not   Aristotle, is Dante's guide. Points of   difference between Dante's type of Vergil and   that usual in the Middle Ages. Elimination   of certain features, idealisation of others.   Vergil and Christianity in Dante's poem. The   nature of Vergil's omniscience there. The   prophecy of Christ. The relation between   Vergil and Statius. Vergil and Dante's ideal Empire   CHAPTER XVI.--Vergil in the Dolopathos. The   merging of the scholastic tradition in the popular   PART II THE VERGIL OF POPULAR LEGEND   CHAPTER I.--Relation of romantic literature   to the classical tradition. Classical antiquity romanticised. The Romance of   Aeneas. The Dolopathos. The Magician and   the Sage in medieval works of the   imagination. Italy and the romances. Legend   of Vergil as magician originates among the   common people at Naples. It invades romantic   and erudite literature   CHAPTER II.--The legend at Naples in the   Twelfth Century. Conradvon Querfurt, Gervasius of Tilbury, Alexander Neckam   CHAPTER III.--Nature and causes of the   Neapolitan legend. The legend at   Montevergine. Its relation to the historical tradition   CHAPTER IV.--Spread of the legend outside   Italy   CHAPTER V.--The seat of Vergil's legendary activity transferred to Rome. The Salvatio   Romae   CHAPTER VI.--Development of the legend during   the Thirteenth Century. Image du Monde,   Roman des Sept Sages, Cleomades, Renart   Contrefait, Gesta Romanorum, Jans Enenkel   CHAPTER VII.--Combination of the idea of   Vergil as prophet of Christ with that of   Vergil as magician. Vergil and the Sibyl in   the mysteries. Vergil as prophet of Christ   and the Salvatio Romae; Roman de Vespasien.   Legends relative to Vergil's magic book.   Abstract expression of the idea of Vergil as   magician in the Philosophia of   Pseudo-Virgilius Cordubensis. The idea of   magician completed with biographical   particulars. Sporadic Portions of the legend   CHAPTER VIII.--Vergil and Women. The story   of the chest. The Bocca della Verita   CHAPTER IX.--Fate of the legend in Italy;   Cronica di Partenope, Ruggieri Pugliese,   Boccaccio, Cino da Pistoja, Antonio Pucci.   The legend at Rome. The legend at Mantua. Buonamente Aliprandi. Relation of the   legends to the ancient biography   CHAPTER X.--Collections of the legends   relative to Vergil. Les Faits merveilleux de   Virgile. The Fleur des histoires of Jean   d'Outremeuse. Romance de Virgilio. Gradual   disappearance of the legends from literature   after the Sixteenth Century. Their survival   among the common people in the south of Italy   up to the present day","brand":"Princeton University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49403688583511,"sku":"9780691026787","price":49.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/vergil-in-the-middle-ages-9780691026787","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}