Martianus Capella In The Late Middle Ages And Renaissance

Author : Katie Reid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 241 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2023-10-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9789004685321

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Martianus Capella in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance by Katie Reid Pdf

In this book, Katie Reid argues that the fifth-century author Martianus Capella was a significant influence in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. His poetic encyclopaedia, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury, was a source for writing on the liberal arts, allegory and classical mythology from 1300 to 1650. In fact, writers of this period had much more in common with Martianus Capella than they did with older ancients like Homer and Virgil. As such, we must reshape our understanding of late medieval and Renaissance encounters with the classical world by exploring their roots in Late Antiquity.

Author : Mariken Teeuwen,Sinéad O'Sullivan
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Carolingians
ISBN : 2503531784

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Carolingian Scholarship and Martianus Capella by Mariken Teeuwen,Sinéad O'Sullivan Pdf

It is well known that the Carolingian royal family inspired and promoted a cultural revival of great consequence. The courts of Charlemagne and his successors welcomed lively gatherings of scholars who avidly pursued knowledge and learning, while education became a booming business in the great monastic centres, which were under the protection of the royal family. Scholarly emphasis was placed upon Latin language, religion, and liturgy, but the works of classical and late antique authors were collected, studied, and commented upon with similar zeal. A text that was read by ninth-century scholars with an almost unrivalled enthusiasm is Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, a late antique encyclopedia of the seven liberal arts embedded within a mythological framework of the marriage between Philology (learning) and Mercury (eloquence). Several ninth-century commentary traditions testify to the work's popularity in the ninth century. Martianus's text treats a wide range of secular subjects, including mythology, the movement of the heavens, numerical speculation, and the ancient tradition on each of the seven liberal arts. De nuptiis and its exceptionally rich commentary traditions provide the focus of this volume, which addresses both the textual material found in the margins of De nuptiis manuscripts, and the broader intellectual context of commentary traditions on ancient secular texts in the early medieval world.

Author : State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Conference
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 444 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1990
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : UCSC:32106009469989

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The Classics in the Middle Ages by State University of New York at Binghamton. Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies. Conference Pdf

Author : Ralph Hexter,David Townsend
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 672 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2012-01-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199875191

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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature by Ralph Hexter,David Townsend Pdf

The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook represent the best of current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. The insights offered by the collective of authors not only illuminate the field of medieval Latin literature but shed new light on broader questions of literary history, cultural interaction, world literature, and language in history and society. The contributors to this volume--a collection of both senior scholars and gifted young thinkers--vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of topics through carefully chosen examples and challenges to settled answers of the past. At the same time, they suggest future possibilities for the necessarily provisional and open-ended work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies. While advanced specialists will find much here to engage and at times to provoke them, this handbook successfully orients non-specialists and students to this thriving field of study. The overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature makes this volume an essential resource for students of the ancient world interested in the prolonged after-life of the classical period's cultural complexes, for medieval historians, for scholars of other medieval literary traditions, and for all those interested in delving more deeply into the fascinating more-than-millennium that forms the bridge between the ancient Mediterranean world and what we consider modernity.

Author : Ernst Robert Curtius
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 692 pages
File Size : 41,6 Mb
Release : 2013-07-21
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781400846153

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European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Ernst Robert Curtius Pdf

Published just after the Second World War, European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a sweeping exploration of the remarkable continuity of European literature across time and place, from the classical era up to the early nineteenth century, and from the Italian peninsula to the British Isles. In what T. S. Eliot called a "magnificent" book, Ernst Robert Curtius establishes medieval Latin literature as the vital transition between the literature of antiquity and the vernacular literatures of later centuries. The result is nothing less than a masterful synthesis of European literature from Homer to Goethe. European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages is a monumental work of literary scholarship. In a new introduction, Colin Burrow provides critical insights into Curtius's life and ideas and highlights the distinctive importance of this wonderful book.

Author : Russell A. Fraser
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 440 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781400869046

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The Dark Ages and the Age of Gold by Russell A. Fraser Pdf

In this original and provocative book Russell Fraser has set himself no less a task than the description and interpretation of one of the signal "facts" of Western history—the breaking away of the present from the medieval past. He locates this break in England in the sixteenth century, and on the continent two hundred years earlier. Unafraid to synthesize, he weaves a rich fabric of quotations, allusions, and examples from art, music, philosophy, theology, and physical science to explain the cultural transition to the modern world. Although the author ranges from Plato to the present, his focus is concentrated on the major figures of the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, especially Shakespeare, "the last and greatest of medieval artists." His intention is always to draw together and compare medieval. Renaissance, and contemporary attitudes so that the reader can see the past becoming the present, how and when this transformation occurred, and for what reasons. Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Author : Luis Girón-Negrón
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2021-07-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004475823

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Alfonso de la Torre's Visión Deleytable by Luis Girón-Negrón Pdf

The sources, content and fate of the 15th-century allegorical fable Visión Deleytable are examined from three angles: as a medieval compendium of religious philosophy, as a major influence in Spanish literature, and as an invaluable historical source on Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Spain. The volume is divided into three sections. The first part considers Visión's didacticism within the Jewish and Christian frames of education in 15th-century Spain. The second part includes a review of Visión's philosophical content as a comprehensive articulation of a rationalist Weltanschauung. The final section traces its intriguing editorial fate and literary influence through the 17th century in Spain, Italy and the Netherlands. It is Visión's first systematic study from the dual perspective of a Hispanist and a Hebraist.

Author : Noel Harold Kaylor,Philip Edward Phillips
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 684 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2012-05-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004225381

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A Companion to Boethius in the Middle Ages by Noel Harold Kaylor,Philip Edward Phillips Pdf

The articles in this volume focus upon Boethius's extant works: his De arithmetica and a fragmentary De musica, his translations and commentaries on logic, his five theological texts, and, of course, his Consolation of Philosophy. They examine the effects that Boethian thought has exercised upon the learning of later generations of scholars.

Author : Natalia Lozovsky
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : History
ISBN : 0472111329

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"The Earth is Our Book" by Natalia Lozovsky Pdf

A fascinating study of early geographical knowledge

Author : Ralph Hexter,David Townsend
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 657 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-01-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9780195394016

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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature by Ralph Hexter,David Townsend Pdf

The twenty-eight essays in this Handbook represent the best of current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. The insights offered by the collective of authors not only illuminate the field of medieval Latin literature but shed new light on broader questions of literary history, cultural interaction, world literature, and language in history and society. The contributors to this volume--a collection of both senior scholars and gifted young thinkers--vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of topics through carefully chosen examples and challenges to settled answers of the past. At the same time, they suggest future possibilities for the necessarily provisional and open-ended work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies. While advanced specialists will find much here to engage and at times to provoke them, this handbook successfully orients non-specialists and students to this thriving field of study. The overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature makes this volume an essential resource for students of the ancient world interested in the prolonged after-life of the classical period's cultural complexes, for medieval historians, for scholars of other medieval literary traditions, and for all those interested in delving more deeply into the fascinating more-than-millennium that forms the bridge between the ancient Mediterranean world and what we consider modernity.

Author : John Marenbon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 236 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2006-03-16
Category : History
ISBN : 0521024625

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From the Circle of Alcuin to the School of Auxerre by John Marenbon Pdf

This study is the first modern account of the development of philosophy during the Carolingian Renaissance. In the late eighth century, Dr Marenbon argues, theologians were led by their enthusiasm for logic to pose themselves truly philosophical questions. The central themes of ninth-century philosophy - essence, the Aristotelian Categories, the problem of Universals - were to preoccupy thinkers throughout the Middle Ages. The earliest period of medieval philosophy was thus a formative one. This work is based on a fresh study of the manuscript sources. The thoughts of scholars such as Alcuin, Candidus, Fredegisus, Ratramnus of Corbie, John Scottus Eriugena and Heiric of Auxerre is examined in detail and compared with their sources; and a wide variety of evidence is used to throw light on the milieu in which these thinkers flourished. Full critical editions of an important body of early medieval philosophical material, much of it never before published, are included.

Author : John Edwin Sandys
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 744 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1967
Category : Classical philology
ISBN : UOM:39015019933269

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A History of Classical Scholarship: From the sixth century B.C. to the end of the Middle Ages by John Edwin Sandys Pdf

Ranging from 600 BC to the modern times, this set includes material on all aspects of classical scholarship -- history, archaeology, philosophy, literature, religion, politics -- as well as providing accounts of the principal figures who helped determine the course of classical scholarship through the ages. Beginning in the Athenian age, this work traces the growth of scholarship in Alexandrian and Roman times, through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance to the study of the Classics in Europe and the USA up to the end of the nineteenth century.

Author : Norriss S. Hetherington
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 686 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2014-04-08
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317677659

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Encyclopedia of Cosmology (Routledge Revivals) by Norriss S. Hetherington Pdf

The Encyclopedia of Cosmology, first published in 1993, recounts the history, philosophical assumptions, methodological ambiguities, and human struggles that have influenced the various responses to the basic questions of cosmology through the ages, as well as referencing important scientific theories. Just as the recognition of social conventions in other cultures can lead to a more productive perspective on our own behaviour, so too a study of the cosmologies of other times and places can enable us recognise elements of our own cosmology that might otherwise pass as inevitable developments. Apart from modern natural science, therefore, this volume incorporates brief treatments of Native American, Cave-Dweller, Chinese, Egyptian, Islamic, Megalithic, Mesopotamian, Greek, Medieval and Copernican cosmology, leading to an appreciation of cosmology as an intellectual creation, not merely a collection of facts. It is a valuable reference tool for any student or academic with an interest in the history of science and cosmology specifically.

Author : James R. Muir
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 142 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2022-06-02
Category : Education
ISBN : 9783031009716

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Isocrates by James R. Muir Pdf

Isocrates is one of the most remarkable and influential figures in the history of human thought. The influence of his ideas in the history of historical writing, rhetoric, the visual arts, music, religion and theology, political science, philosophy and, above all, educational philosophy and practice in Europe, Australia, North America, North Africa, and the Middle East are well established and widely known. This book argues careful study of the educational philosophy of Isocrates and its legacy can contribute to an improved understanding of the historiography of educational thought, his distinctive normative methodology in both political and educational philosophy, and his arguments about the primary importance of the virtues of self-knowledge and realistic self-appraisal for educational philosophers and practitioners. At a time when educational philosophy has an increasingly precarious academic existence and educationists are actively seeking new historiographical and methodological approaches to the philosophical study of education, there is much to be gained by recovering and reevaluating the historiography and normative methodology of Isocrates and the role they play in educational discourse and practice today.

Author : Margaret C. Schaus
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 985 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-20
Category : History
ISBN : 9781135459604

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Women and Gender in Medieval Europe by Margaret C. Schaus Pdf

From women's medicine and the writings of Christine de Pizan to the lives of market and tradeswomen and the idealization of virginity, gender and social status dictated all aspects of women's lives during the middle ages. A cross-disciplinary resource, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe examines the daily reality of medieval women from all walks of life in Europe between 450 CE and 1500 CE, i.e., from the fall of the Roman Empire to the discovery of the Americas. Moving beyond biographies of famous noble women of the middles ages, the scope of this important reference work is vast and provides a comprehensive understanding of medieval women's lives and experiences. Masculinity in the middle ages is also addressed to provide important context for understanding women's roles. Entries that range from 250 words to 4,500 words in length thoroughly explore topics in the following areas: · Art and Architecture · Countries, Realms, and Regions · Daily Life · Documentary Sources · Economics · Education and Learning · Gender and Sexuality · Historiography · Law · Literature · Medicine and Science · Music and Dance · Persons · Philosophy · Politics · Political Figures · Religion and Theology · Religious Figures · Social Organization and Status Written by renowned international scholars, Women and Gender in Medieval Europe is the latest in the Routledge Encyclopedias of the Middle Ages. Easily accessible in an A-to-Z format, students, researchers, and scholars will find this outstanding reference work to be an invaluable resource on women in Medieval Europe.