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Virgil in Medieval England
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Virgil in Medieval England

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What happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and re-used in a different, much later world? What can we learn from the annotations accumulated by a single manuscript as it moved among different institutions and readerships? In this study Christopher Baswell takes as his model Virgil’s ancient epic poem The Aeneid, which held many kinds of appeal for the culture of the Middle Ages. He examines a series of Latin manuscripts of the text which were copied in twelfth-century England but re-used and re-annotated for three centuries, and shows how their users approached the epic in very different ways. He then charts the progression from the Latin of the original to the vernaculars of the Roman d’Eneas and Chaucer’s House of Fame and Legend of Good Women, to show how medieval vernacular poets used Virgil’s prestige to lay their own claim to poetic and even political authority.

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Virgil in Medieval England

1.182 kr.

1.182 kr.

Tidligere laveste pris:

1.198 kr.

På lager

Tirs., 29 juli - man., 4 aug.


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14 dages åbent køb


Sælges og leveres af

Adlibris