Poetry And Philosophy In The Middle Ages

Author : John Marenbon,Peter Dronke
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2001-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9004119647

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Poetry and Philosophy in the Middle Ages by John Marenbon,Peter Dronke Pdf

A collection of essays written by pupils, friends and colleagues of Professor Peter Dronke, to honour him on his retirement. The essays address the question of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Contributors include Walter Berschin, Charles Burnett, Stephen Gersh, Michael Herren, Edouard Jeauneau, David Luscombe, Paul Gerhardt Schmidt, Joe Trapp, Jill Mann, Claudio Orlandi and John Marenbon. It is an important collection for both philosophical and literary specialists; scholars, graduate students and under-graduates in Medieval Literature and in Medieval Philosophy.

Author : Kathryn Lynch
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 1988-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780804766418

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The High Medieval Dream Vision by Kathryn Lynch Pdf

In the High Middle Ages, the dream narrative was an enormously popular and influential form. Along with the romance, it was perhaps the genre of the age. It has come down to us in such classics twelfth to fourteenth-century classics as The Divine Comedy, the Romance of the Rose, Piers Plowman, Chaucer's early poetry, and the works of Guillaume de Machaut. This book redefines the dream vision by attending to its role in philosophical debate of the time, a conservative role in defense of the high medieval synthesis of reason and revelation. Lynch shows how the epistemological basis of this synthesis and the theories of visions that emerged from it drew on Arabic commentaries of Aristotle. These theories informed poetic visions modeled on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a work she discusses in detail before turning to Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Dante. A final section, on John Gower's Confessio Amantis shows how fourteenth and fifteenth-century writers extended and finally moved beyond the conventional form of the dream vision.

Author : Adrian Armstrong,Sarah Kay
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2011-05-15
Category : History
ISBN : 9780801460586

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Knowing Poetry by Adrian Armstrong,Sarah Kay Pdf

In the later Middle Ages, many writers claimed that prose is superior to verse as a vehicle of knowledge because it presents the truth in an unvarnished form, without the distortions of meter and rhyme. Beginning in the thirteenth century, works of verse narrative from the early Middle Ages were recast in prose, as if prose had become the literary norm. Instead of dying out, however, verse took on new vitality. In France verse texts were produced, in both French and Occitan, with the explicit intention of transmitting encyclopedic, political, philosophical, moral, historical, and other forms of knowledge. In Knowing Poetry, Adrian Armstrong and Sarah Kay explore why and how verse continued to be used to transmit and shape knowledge in France. They cover the period between Jean de Meun’s Roman de la rose (c. 1270) and the major work of Jean Bouchet, the last of the grands rhétoriqueurs (c. 1530). The authors find that the advent of prose led to a new relationship between poetry and knowledge in which poetry serves as a medium for serious reflection and self-reflection on subjectivity, embodiment, and time. They propose that three major works—the Roman de la rose, the Ovide moralisé, and Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy—form a single influential matrix linking poetry and intellectual inquiry, metaphysical insights, and eroticized knowledge. The trio of thought-world-contingency, poetically represented by Philosophy, Nature, and Fortune, grounds poetic exploration of reality, poetry, and community.

Author : Jennifer Jahner,Ingrid Nelson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2022-02-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781611463330

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Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature by Jennifer Jahner,Ingrid Nelson Pdf

Dedicated to the scholarship of Elizabeth Robertson, Gender, Poetry, and the Form of Thought in Later Medieval Literature is a collection of essays that explore how gender in medieval English literature intersects with philosophy, poetry, history, and religion.

Author : Philip Knox,Jonathan Morton,Daniel Reeve
Publisher : Brepols Publishers
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018
Category : Literature, Medieval
ISBN : 2503576214

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Medieval Thought Experiments by Philip Knox,Jonathan Morton,Daniel Reeve Pdf

Throughout the Middle Ages, fictional frameworks could be used as imaginative spaces in which to test or play with ideas without asserting their truth. The aim of this volume is to consider how intellectual problems were approached--if not necessarily resolved--through the kinds of hypothetical enquiry found in poetry and in other texts that employ fictional or imaginative strategies. Scholars working across the spectrum of medieval languages and academic disciplines consider why a writer might choose a fictional or hypothetical frame to discuss theoretical questions, how a work's truth content is affected and shaped by its fictive nature, or what kinds of affective or intellectual work its reading demands. By reading literary, philosophical, and spiritual texts from England, France, and Italy alongside each other, this collection offers a new interdisciplinary approach to the history of medieval thought.

Author : Kathryn Lynch
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 263 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 1988-06-01
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0804712751

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The High Medieval Dream Vision by Kathryn Lynch Pdf

In the High Middle Ages, the dream narrative was an enormously popular and influential form. Along with the romance, it was perhaps the genre of the age. It has come down to us in such classics twelfth to fourteenth-century classics as The Divine Comedy, the Romance of the Rose, Piers Plowman, Chaucer's early poetry, and the works of Guillaume de Machaut. This book redefines the dream vision by attending to its role in philosophical debate of the time, a conservative role in defense of the high medieval synthesis of reason and revelation. Lynch shows how the epistemological basis of this synthesis and the theories of visions that emerged from it drew on Arabic commentaries of Aristotle. These theories informed poetic visions modeled on Boethius's Consolation of Philosophy, a work she discusses in detail before turning to Alain de Lille, Jean de Meun, and Dante. A final section, on John Gower's Confessio Amantis shows how fourteenth and fifteenth-century writers extended and finally moved beyond the conventional form of the dream vision.

Author : Ernest L. Fortin
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 073910327X

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Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages by Ernest L. Fortin Pdf

Dissent and Philosophy in the Middle Ages offers scholars of Dante's Divine Comedy an integral understanding of the political, philosophical, and religious context of the medieval masterwork. First penned in French by Ernest L. Fortin, one of America's foremost thinkers in the fields of philosophy and theology, Dissidence et philosophie au moyen-%ge brings to light the complexity of Dante's thought and art, and its relation to the central themes of Western civilization. Available in English for the first time through this superb translation by Marc A. LePain, Dissent and Philosophy will make a supremely important contribution to the discussion of Dante as poet, theologian, and philosopher.

Author : Peter Dronke
Publisher : Ed. di Storia e Letteratura
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1984
Category : Civilization, Medieval
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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The Medieval Poet and His World by Peter Dronke Pdf

Author : Kathryn L. Lynch
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0859916006

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Chaucer's Philosophical Visions by Kathryn L. Lynch Pdf

New readings of Chaucer's dream visions, demonstrating his philosophical interests and learning.

Author : Kellie Robertson
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 456 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2017-03-09
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780812248654

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Nature Speaks by Kellie Robertson Pdf

Nature Speaks recovers the common ground shared between physics—what used to be known as "natural philosophy"—and fiction-writing as ways of representing the natural world. In doing so, it traces how nature gained an authoritative voice in the late medieval period only to lose it at the outset of modernity.

Author : Judson Boyce Allen
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
Page : 549 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 1982-12-15
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781442632998

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The Ethical Poetic of the Later Middle Ages by Judson Boyce Allen Pdf

This study of the definition of literature in the late medieval period is based on manuals of writing and on literary commentary and glosses. It defines a method of reading which may now profitably explain medieval texts, and identifies new primary medieval evidence which may ground and guide new reading. Allen chooses texts whose commentary tradition provides the greatest opportunity for completeness. The most important of these is Ovid’s Metamorphoses. Medieval readings of Ovid bring into focus a number of major literary questions—the problems of fable and fiction, of unity imposed by miscellany poetry, of allegorical commentary, and of Christian use of pagan culture—all in connection with text which furnished medieval authors with more stories than any other single source except possibly the Bible. Allen also studies commentaries on the Consolation of Philosophy of Boethius, the Thebaid of Statius, the De nuptiis of Martianus Capella, the medieval Christian hymn-book, and the Poetria nova of Geoffrey of Vinsauf. Together these texts represent the range of medieval literature—a literature which, Allen concludes, was taken as direct ethical discourse, logically conducted and artfully organized within a system of language that also assimilated the natural world and sought to absorb its audience.

Author : John Mulryan
Publisher : Bucknell University Press
Page : 198 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0838750362

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Milton and the Middle Ages by John Mulryan Pdf

Refuting the view that Milton was an antimedievalist, the eight essays presented here approach him from the interdisciplinary perspectives of historical, theological, literary, philosophical, and pictorial concerns, and illuminate the many areas in which Milton's work grew out of medieval art and culture.

Author : Sarah Kay
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2007-04-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0812240073

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The Place of Thought by Sarah Kay Pdf

"This book is quite simply the most important, intellectually ambitious, and far-reaching endeavor in recent years."—Stephen G. Nichols, Johns Hopkins University

Author : David Strong
Publisher : Springer
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2017-04-26
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9783319519814

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The Philosophy of Piers Plowman by David Strong Pdf

This book examines William Langland’s late medieval poem, The Vision of Piers Plowman, in light of contemporary intellectual thought. David Strong argues that where the philosophers John Duns Scotus and William of Ockham revolutionize the view of human potential through their theories of epistemology, ethics, and freedom of the will, Langland vivifies these ideas by contextualizing them in an individual’s search for truth and love. Specifically, the text ponders the intersection between reason and the will in expressing love. While scholars have consistently noted the text’s indebtedness to these higher strains of thought, this is the first book-length study in over thirty years that explores the depth of this interconnection, and the only one that considers the salience of both Scotus and Ockham. It is essential reading for medieval literary specialists and students as well as any cultural historian who desires to augment their knowledge of truth and love.

Author : Jonathan Morton
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2018-02-22
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780192548610

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The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context by Jonathan Morton Pdf

The Roman de la rose in its Philosophical Context offers a new interpretation of the long and complex medieval allegorical poem written by Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun in the thirteenth century, a work that became one of the most influential works of vernacular literature in the European Middle Ages. The scope and sophistication of the poem's content, especially in Jean's continuation, has long been acknowledged, but this is the first book-length study to offer an in-depth analysis of how the Rose draws on, and engages with, medieval philosophy, in particular with the Aristotelianism that dominated universities in the thirteenth century. It considers the limitations and possibilities of approaching ideas through the medium of poetic fiction, whose lies paradoxically promise truth and whose ambiguities and self-contradiction make it hard to discern its positions. This indeterminacy allows poetry to investigate the world and the self in ways not available to texts produced in the Scholastic context of universities, especially those of the University of Paris, whose philosophical controversies in the 1270s form the backdrop against which the poem is analysed. At the heart of the Rose are the three ideas of art, nature, and ethics, which cluster around its central subject: love. While the book offers larger claims about the Rose's philosophical agenda, different chapters consider the specifics of how it draws on, and responds to, Roman poetry, twelfth-century Neoplatonism, and thirteenth-century Aristotelianism in broaching questions about desire, epistemology, human nature, the imagination, primitivism, the philosophy of art, and the ethics of money.