‎Language‎

‎Amy Faulkner, Francis Leneghan (eds)‎

‎Age of Alfred. Rethinking English Literary Culture c. 850-950‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 600 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:18 b/w, 2 col., 5 tables b/w., Language:English. ISBN 9782503606651.‎

‎King Alfred the Great (r. 871-899) remains a key figure in English literary history. Although his reputation as a scholar who was personally responsible for the translation of a number of Latin works is no longer secure, the figure of the wise king nevertheless casts a long shadow over vernacular writing from the late ninth century through to the twelfth. This volume takes stock of recent developments and debates in the field of Alfredian scholarship and showcases new directions in research. Individual chapters consider how English authors before, during, and after Alfred's reign translated and adapted Latin works, often in innovative and imaginative ways. Other contributions provide new contexts and connections for Alfredian writing, highlighting the work of Mercian scholars and expanding the corpus beyond the works traditionally attributed to the king himself. Together, these essays force us to rethink what we mean by 'Alfredian' and to revise the literary history of the 'long ninth century'.‎

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‎Lionel Dumarty (ed)‎

‎Langue id ale, langue r elle. Description et normalisation des langues classiques du IIIe s. av. J.-C. au XIIe s. de notre re‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, 268 pages, Size:155 x 245 mm, Illustrations:4 b/w, 2 tables b/w., Language(s):French, English, German. ISBN 9782503609010.‎

‎Summary Depuis la naissance de la grammaire, les premiers th oriciens de la langue se sont heurt s un paradoxe : est-il possible de r duire la somme ind finie des faits de langue un ensemble fini de r gles ? Ce paradoxe appelle d'autres prolongements : les travaux des grammairiens t moignent-ils tous, et tous de la m me mani re, du rapport, parfois contradictoire, entre la langue qu'ils observent, avec ses variantes, ses particularismes, et celle qu'ils donnent voir comme un syst me ordonn et fond en raison ? Et s'il y a pour eux tension entre les deux d marches, comment se comportent-ils face la difficult ? Cherchent-ils r soudre la contradiction ou la contourner ? Y parviennent-ils et, dans ce cas, quelles strat gies d ploient-ils pour y parvenir ? Les huit contributions de ce volume couvrent une large p riode, courant sur plus d'un mill naire, depuis les scholiastes d'Hom re, p res de la grammaire alexandrine (IIIe s. av. J.-C.), jusqu'au commentateurs m di vaux de Priscien (XIIe s. ap. J.-C.). Le probl me du rapport entre norme et usage y est abord dans divers domaines et sous de nombreux aspects : la question de l'orthographe et de la syntaxe et le statut de la correction de la langue (la puret linguistique : Hellenismos, Latinitas) et de la faute (barbarisme et sol cisme) ; le probl me de la r gle (analogia), de ses extensions, de ses limites ; le r le fondamental de l' tymologie et, derri re le rapport entre la forme et le sens, la question de la pathologie linguistique. TABLE OF CONTENTS Pr sentation (Lionel Dumarty) Wessen Dual ist korrekt? Hellenistische Philologen ber Sprachrichtigkeit und deren Kriterien am Beispiel des homerischen Dualgebrauchs (Stephanos Matthaios) Contre-exemples et antinomies dans la grammaire alexandrine (Lionel Dumarty) La langue courante entre faute et figure chez Apollonius Dyscole (Manuela Callipo) Quand m me l'exception ob it une r gle : le concept de sun mpt?sis dans la tradition grammaticale grecque ancienne et plus sp cialement chez Apollonius Dyscole (Fr d ric Lambert) la recherche d'emprunts linguistiques chez les grammairiens grecs anciens (Stella Merlin) L'orthographe : de la th orie la r alit (Jean Schneider) Migration, Variation, and Correctness: Barbarismus and soloecismus in Latin Grammars from Late Antiquity and the Early Middle Ages (Tim Denecker) Magistri et regula. La notion de r gle dans les commentaires sur Priscien du premier XIIe si cle (Anne Grondeux) R f rences Indices‎

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‎Veronica O'Mara, Virginia Blanton (eds)‎

‎Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, I. A Study of the 'Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, xxxii + 398 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:24 b/w, 8 col., 5 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503545516.‎

‎Summary Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604 contains a unique prose legendary almost entirely of female saints, all of whom are virgins, martyrs, or nuns. The manuscript, which also has varied post-medieval items, is written in one hand probably dating from c. 1480 to c. 1510. This previously unstudied Middle English collection features twenty-two universal and native saints, both common (like John the Baptist and thelthryth) and rare (such as Wihtburh and Domitilla). These texts are dependent on a complex mixture of Latin sources and analogues. Specific linguistic and art-historical features, as well as attention to the predominant female saints of Ely and post-medieval provenance, suggest an East Anglian convent for the original readership. Through an exploration of the manuscript and its later ownership (both recusant and antiquarian), a discussion of its linguistic attributes, a consideration of local female monastic and book history, a comparison of hagiographical texts, and a wide-ranging source and analogue study, this Study fully contextualises these Middle English lives. The book concludes with a survey of the structural and stylistic aspects of the texts, followed by three appendices, and an extensive bibliography. The texts are edited for the first time in its companion volume, Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, II: An Edition of the 'Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface I. The Manuscript II. Language and Dialectal Provenance III. Convent and Geographical Location IV. Hagiographical Context and the Selection of Saints V. Latin Sources and Analogues VI. Reading the ?Lyves and Dethes' Conclusion Appendix 1. Universal Latin Saints' Lives: Sources and Analogues Appendix 2. Latin and Middle English Versions of Athelthryth Appendix 3. Middle English Translations of John the Evangelist Bibliography Index‎

Bookseller reference : 63179

‎Veronica O'Mara, Virginia Blanton (eds)‎

‎Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, II. An Edition of the ?Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Hardback, xvi + 502 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503607832.‎

‎Summary Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604 contains a unique collection of prose saints' lives evenly divided into eleven universal and eleven native saints (predominantly culted at Ely). Clearly intended for the devotional life of nuns, presumably in an East Anglian convent, the volume comprises nineteen female figures, all of whom are virgins, martyrs, or nuns, and three male saints (two apostles and a hermit). These late Middle English lives are translated from a variety of Latin sources and analogues including material by Jacobus de Voragine, John of Tynemouth, and others. The collection demonstrates an interest in showcasing native saints alongside their universal sisters. Luminaries of the English Church, such as thelthryth of Ely and her sister Seaxburh, are found in the company of notable virgin martyrs like Agatha and Cecilia. Famous saints like John the Evangelist and Hild of Whitby feature alongside others such as Columba of Sens and Eorcengota. Fully analysed and contextualised in its companion volume Saints' Lives for Medieval English Nuns, I: A Study of the ?Lyves and Dethes' in Cambridge University Library, MS Additional 2604, these texts are edited here for the first time. Alongside the edition of the twenty-two saints' lives and full textual apparatus, there are extensive overviews and commentaries providing details of the sources and analogues as well as explanatory historical and literary notes. The edition concludes with three appendices, a detailed select glossary, and a bibliography of works cited. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Editorial Procedure A Study and Edition of the Saints' Lives Here begynnyth the lyfe of Seynt Iohn Baptist Here begynnyth the life of Seynt Iohn Euangeliste Here begynnyth the lyf of Seynt Columbe e virgyn [Here begynneth the martirdome of Seynt Agace the virgyn] [The life of Seynt Cecile the virgyn and martir] Here begynnyth the life of Seynt Barbara the virgyn and martir The life of Seynt Audry of Hely virgyn and martir Here begynnyth the life of Seynt Sexburge, sister to Seynt Awdre, which was the next abbes of Hely aftir hir Here begynnyth the lyfe of Seynt Ermenylde, the first doughter of seynt Sexburgh Here begynnyth the lyfe of Seynt Werburgh, the doughter of Seynt Ermenyld Here begynnyth a shorte lyfe of Seynt Erkengoode, the secunde doughter of Seynt Sexburgh and the awnte of Seynt Wereburgh, and of Seynt Alburgh at was sistir to Seynt Awdre of Hely Here begynnyth the life of Seynt Whitburge Here begynnyth the lif of Seynt Edith of Wylton Here begynnyth the holy life of Seynt Edburgh, abbes of Tenett aftir Seynt Mildrede Here begynnyth the holy life of Seynt Aswyde e nonne of Folkstone [The holy lif of Seynt Hilde abbes of Streneshall] Here begynnyth the life of Seynt Martha, abbes of many nonnes and e syster of Mary Mawdelen Here begynnyth a litill short mencion of the life of Seynt Domitille Of the Life of Seynt Iustine Abbes and Martyr [Here begynnyth the lyfe of Seynt Benett] Thus begynnyth e lyfe of Seynt Modewyne Here begynnyth the life and miracles of Seynt Leonarde Textual Apparatus Overviews and Commentaries John The Baptist John the Evangelist Columba Agatha Cecilia Barbara thelthryth Seaxburh Eormenhild W rburh Eorcengota (and thelburh) Wihtburh Edith Eadburh Eanswith Hild Martha Domitilla Justina Benedicta Modwenna Leonard Appendix A. Section Summaries Appendix B. Miracles Appendix C. Place-Names Select Glossary Select Bibliography‎

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‎Dominique Goy-Blanquet‎

‎From the Domesday Book to Shakespeare?s Globe. The Legal and Political Heritage of Elizabethan Drama‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 456 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:1 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503601311.‎

‎Summary The phrase 'Jus Uncommon' summarizes England's claim to independence from Europe, a claim supported by its unique legal system and Elizabethan theatre, and their strong interconnexion. Elizabethan tragedy begins at the Inns of Court. It was no mere coincidence, but a result of the long history of intersecting processes of law, politics, and theatre. This book sets out to contextualize and explore such legal and literary intersections, charting the emergence of Elizabethan legal culture from its various English and European sources over the course of the four hundred years running from Magna Carta to Shakespeare. It encompasses the major strands of legal history and culture that formed the background to Elizabethan political drama, republican tradition, theories of monarchical sovereignty,?European and English theories of?imperium,?pedagogical and rhetorical practices of the Inns of Court,?legal-antiquarian research, parliamentary privilege, and Tudor political pamphleteering. Legal texts, discourses, and social practices constructed a pervasive intellectual culture from which Elizabethan drama - like Shakespeare's - emerged. Shakespeare is not the central object of this study, but he is central to its argument. What he knew about law was what collective memory had stored from centuries past at home and abroad. The issues, characters, themes, theories, and metaphors dramatized by the Elizabethan playwrights followed the way opened at the Inns. Emblematic figures of lawyers-writers and their Senecan patterns paved the way to Gorboduc and to Shakespeare's histories. TABLE OF CONTENTS Editorial Note Introduction : Law or Liberty? Part I. Jus uncommon. Freedom of the State Chapter 1. Dreams of Empire Early Steps to Singularity Clashes of Jurisdictions Sacred Monarchy Chapter 2. England's Mixed Polity English Democrats Good Counsel Model Parliaments Right of Conquest Chapter 3. Rival Law Codes Roman Law The Common Law of the Realm Emergence of the Inns Upward Mobility Part II. Fair Trial. Freedom of Magistrates Chapter 4. Learned Counsel A Display of Legalism The Courtly Muses of Europe Chapter 5. Divorcing Rome King's Conscience King's Printer King's Games Chapter 6. Fortune's Wheels Common Prayers Heretics on Trial 'Something Tawdry'. The Political Pageant 'An Axe or an Acte'. The Execution of Justice Part III. The Conscience of England. Freedom of Speech Chapter 7. The Languages of Law The Legal Nursery Won in Translation Chapter 8. Theatres of Law Dramatic Justice Political Tragedy Chapter 9. Lawyers in Parliament 'Shall Cassandra Bee Punished?' The Liberties of the House Clean and Unclean Money The Lawyer's Glasses of Governance Chapter 10. Kings do but Play Us Lawyers in Resistance A Parliament of Voices Conclusion. 'This Magnificent Theatre of Heaven and Earth' Select Bibliography Index of Acts, Statutes, and Treatises Index of Plays, Poems, Dialogues, and Masques General Index‎

Bookseller reference : 63359

‎Mich le Bussi res (ed)‎

‎Old English Life of Saint Pantaleon. Old English text with introduction, translation and Latin version‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 160 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:20 b/w, 5 tables b/w., Language(s):English, Old English, Latin. ISBN 9782503609256.‎

‎Summary The Old English Life of Saint Pantaleon survives in one eleventh century manuscript: it appears here for the first time in an easily available edition. This edition is based both on independent research and on the work of previous scholars. It is a challenging text, from a much-damaged manuscript, but well worth reading: it is interesting both from a linguistic point of view, as a testimony of late Anglo-Saxon language, and also as a sign of continental influence on Anglo-Saxon culture and of a change in literary taste in England on the eve of the Norman Conquest. It is preceded by a full introduction dealing with the history of the text, from Greece to Western Europe and the context of its translation into Old English. The text is accompanied by copious notes dealing with difficult passages and it is made more accessible by a Modern English translation. The edition is completed by a 12th century Latin version which seems to be the closer to its Old English counterpart. The edition is completed by an Anglo-Saxon glossary. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Old English Text and Translation Commentary Latin text Bibliography‎

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‎Camilla Caporicci (ed)‎

‎Song of Songs in European Poetry (Twelfth to Seventeenth Centuries). Translations, Appropriations, Rewritings‎

‎, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 295 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:8 b/w, 4 col., 14 tables b/w., 10 Musical Examples, Language: English. ISBN 9782503608174.‎

‎Summary Traditionally attributed to King Solomon and defined by Rabbi Aqiva as the Holy of Holies among the sacred Scriptures, the Song of Songs is one of the most fascinating and controversial biblical books. Celebrated as a key to the supreme mystery of the union between God and the faithful, this ambivalent book, which combined a sensual celebration of love with a well-established tradition of allegorical interpretation, was a text crucial to both the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, and held a particular appeal for poets. Indeed, the Song of Songs played a significant role in the development of European poetry from its very beginning, creating an exceptional convergence of sacred and secular languages and horizons of meaning. Written by a group of distinguished international scholars, this volume explores the complex and multifaceted processes through which the Song of Songs entered, influenced, and interacted with medieval and Renaissance European poetry (twelfth to seventeenth centuries). Focusing on both individual authors - including Peter Riga, Dante Alighieri, Richard Rolle, and George Herbert - and particularly relevant poetic traditions - including Hebrew liturgical poetry and the Tristan and Ysolt tradition, Middle English and Petrarchan lyric, Renaissance verse versions and seventeenth-century musical compositions, dissident and prophetic texts - the volume unveils the relevant role played by the biblical book in the development of European poetry, thought and spirituality, highlighting its ability to contribute to different poetic genres and give voice to a variety of religious, political, philosophical, and artistic intentions. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Camilla Caporicci Part I. A Many-Faced Influence: Medieval Voices Chapter 1. 'The Song of Songs, gaze upon her': Antique Hebrew Liturgical Poetry from the Medieval Mainz Rite Leor Jacobi Chapter 2. Versifying the Cantica canticorum in the Context of Peter Riga's Aurora Greti Dinkova-Bruun Chapter 3. 'Like an apple tree among the trees of the forest is my beloved among the young men': Revisiting the Song of Songs with Tristan and Ysolt Brindusa Grigoriu Chapter 4. The Song of Songs' Lyricism in Late Medieval England Denis Renevey and Christiania Whitehead Part II. Poetry and Music: The Italian Tradition Chapter 5. The Good Sorrow: The Song of Songs in Dante's Comedy and Contemporary Popular Piety Lino Pertile Chapter 6. The Song of Songs in Sixteenth-Century Italian Lyric Poetry Matteo Navone Chapter 7. Laetitia et solatio: Singing the Canticles and Female Spirituality in the Early Seventeenth Century Marina Toffetti Chapter 8. Motets on the Song of Songs in the Collection Symbolae diversorum musicorum (Venice, 1621) edited by Lorenzo Calvi Gabriele Taschetti Part III. Rewriting and Appropriating the Song of Songs in the British Isles Chapter 9. A Corpus-Based Analysis of the Song of Songs' Early Modern Translations (1535?1611) Fabio Ciambella Chapter 10. William Baldwin's Canticles or Balades of Solomon and the Beginnings of English Petrarchism Rachel Stenner Chapter 11. A Reading of Joseph Hall's Paraphrase of the Song of Songs (1609) Tibor Fabiny Chapter 12. From the 'broken Altar' to 'The Banquet' of Love: The Song of Songs in George Herbert's The Temple (1633) Carmen Gallo Chapter 13. The Allure of Canonical Fleshliness: The Song of Songs as Hermeneutic interm diaire for Ranter Libertarianism and Counter-Ethics Simone Turco Chapter 14. Women Prophets, Dissent, and the Song of Songs in Seventeenth-Century England Adrian Streete ***‎

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‎Claudio Cataldi (ed)‎

‎Bodley Glossaries. The Glossaries in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 730‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 152 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9780888449115.‎

‎Summary This volume presents the first full edition and study of the four glossaries preserved in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 730. The glossaries offer evidence of the continuity of the Old English glossarial tradition well into the Middle English period; with Latin (and sometimes Greek) entries followed by Latin, Anglo-Norman, and English glosses, they bear witness to the multilingual environment of late-twelfth and early thirteenth-century England. An introduction sets the glossaries in the history of medieval English lexicography, and textual apparatus and notes provide interpretations, parallels, and commentary on each entry. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations Preface INTRODUCTION FIGURES GLOSSARY 1 The Latin-Anglo-Norman Glossary Notes on Glossary 1 GLOSSARY 2 The First Latin-English Class Glossary Notes on Glossary 2 GLOSSARY 3 The Latin Glossary with Glosses in the Vernacular Notes on Glossary 3 GLOSSARY 4 The Second Latin-English Class Glossary Notes on Glossary 4 Bibliography Index verborum Index of the loci in Isidore's Etymologiae Index of Manuscripts Index of Names, Authors, and Works‎

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‎Dabney A. Bankert‎

‎Philology in Turbulent Times. Joseph Bosworth, His Dictionary, and the Recovery of Old English‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, xxx + 314 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9780888449108.‎

‎Summary This book situates Joseph Bosworth's A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1838) and its revised 1898 version in their cultural context, reconstructing their history from a wealth of archival materials. It opens up a larger investigation into the central role played by Bosworth's work in the birth and growth of Old English studies in the nineteenth century. And it examines the challenges faced by T. Northcote Toller in completing the revision of the Dictionary after Bosworth's death, as well as his compilation of its Supplement in 1921. Overall, this study aims to rectify widespread disciplinary ignorance of the Dictionary's conception, compilation, and publication, and to examine its impact on the development of the discipline. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Figures Abbreviations Chronology PREFACE Recovering Bosworth-Toller INTRODUCTION Building a Lexicographical Empire in Turbulent Times CHAPTER 1 Dictionary Bosworth: The Making of a Lexicographer CHAPTER 2 Beginning: Origins, Sources, and Method of A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1838) CHAPTER 3 Compiling: Antiquarian Foundations CHAPTER 4 Collaborating: The Bosworth Syndicate, the New Philology, and the Battle over Method CHAPTER 5 Revising: Expanding the Lexicon, 1840-1876 CHAPTER 6 Ending: An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Based on the Manuscript Collections of the Late Joseph Bosworth (1898) CHAPTER 7 Supplementing: T. Northcote Toller's An Anglo-Saxon Dictionary Supplement (1921) APPENDIX 1 The Bosworth Donation APPENDIX 2 Sources: A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1838) APPENDIX 3 Bodleian Library Entry Books, 1813-1875 APPENDIX 4 Holograph Drafts of A Dictionary of the Anglo-Saxon Language (1838) Bibliography Index of Manuscripts and Archival Collections General Index‎

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‎Michel Zimmermann (ed)‎

‎catalan m di val‎

‎, Brepols , 2023 Paperback, 705 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:3 b/w, 6 col., Language: French. ISBN 9782503593524.‎

‎Summary The aim of this book is twofold. Firstly, it follows the emergence of the Catalan language, its appearance in the written field and its evolution. Secondly, it defines and analyses a textual topology of the Catalan language and establishes a chronological and geographical differentiation in its expansion. An introductory chapter, written by a linguist, povides a rigorous account of the appearance and evolution of the Catalan language until it became the common language of the Catalans. This is followed by a bibliography that provides an extensive overview of the working tools of the Catalan language, such as manuals, dictionaries, grammars and critical text editions. The second part, consisting of eight chapters, defines and closely analyses a typology of medieval Catalan texts. Cet ouvrage se propose d' tudier le catalan m di val et de constituer une synth se sur son volution et sur les diff rents types de sources o il s'est illustr . Il offre ainsi une tude linguistique et historique de la langue catalane et consid re son mergence, son apparition dans le champ de l' criture et son expansion, qui l'a conduite devenir la langue commune des Catalans, de ceux qui vivent en Catalogne comme de ceux qui habitent d'autres espaces. La premi re partie du volume propose une introduction la langue catalane o se trouvent expos es de mani re syst matique tant les conditions de son apparition que les modalit s de son volution : l'objectif est de d crire et mettre en valeur la sp cificit du catalan m di val et les r gles qui encadrent sont usage. Cette tude est compl t e par une bibliographie critique qui recense les principaux outils de recherche. La seconde partie, compos e de huit chapitres, pr sente une large typologie de textes r dig s en catalan au cours du Moyen ge, qu'il s'agisse d'oeuvres litt raires sacr es et profanes, ou d' crits tir s des abondantes archives de Catalogne. Sont successivement pr sent s des documents clairant les rapports f odaux, les soci t s urbaines, le pouvoir royal et les relations pistolaires famili res. La construction d'une m moire catalane, ainsi que les mani res de croire, de penser et de ressentir, sont galement saisies travers l'examen des chroniques, des textes religieux, de la litt rature et des crits documentant l'histoire de l'art. L'ouvrage rend ainsi accessible de mani re critique une documentation foisonnante, largement in dite, qui fait conna tre la richesse du Moyen ge catalan consid r sur pr s de cinq si cles. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction, Michel et Marie-Claire Zimmerman, Joan Anton Rabella Le catalan aujourd'hui L'origine des mots catalan et Catalogne Le catalan et les langues romanes L'historiographie de la langue catalane Le projet de ce livre L' criture du catalan dans la transcription des textes anciens Premi re partie Premier chapitre. La langue catalane m di vale: Les practiques d' criture et leur contexte historique, Joan Anton Rabell (traduction Aymat Catafau et Marie-Claire Zimmerman) La formation de la langue catalane et les premiers textes en catalan L'expansion de la langue crite (XIIIe-XIVe si cles) La langue dans les registres informels : langue parl e et oralit (XIIIe-XIVe si cles) L' volution de la langue catalane la fin du Moyen ge (XVe si cle) Chapitre II. Notes linguistiques, Joan Anton Rabell (traduction Aymat Catafau et Marie-Claire Zimmerman) Les voyelles toniques Les voyelles atones Les consonnes Ph nom nes phon tiques divers La morphosyntaxe La connaissance de la langue orale ancienne L' volution dialectale du catalan la fin du Moyen ge Deuxi me partie Premier chapitre. De l'oral l' crit: F odalit , seigneurie et ruralit , Aymat Catafau (coord.) Introcution F odalit , seigneurs et seigneuries L'exercice de la justice. Du droit wisigothique aux justices locales Chapitre II. Actes en catalan et soci t s urbaines. Communaut s en (inter)action, Claude Denjean (coord.) Introduction Un r seau de correspondances Une soci t du contrat : artisans et marchands Normer et contr ler : les universitates Dresser des listes, inventorier Chapitre III. Les crits du pouvoir royal, St phane P quignot (coord.) Introduction Chapitre IV. La documentation pistolaire: Les lettres famili res, Claire Ponsich Introduction La correspondance conjugale et familiale L' change entre l cs L' change avec un eccl siastique Chapitre V. La m moire catalane: Textes historiographiques et r cits, Robert Vinas (coord.) Introduction Observations g n rales sur la langue des chroniques Jacques (jaume) Ier le Conqu rant, Le Livre des Faits Bernat Desclot, Le Livre du roi Pierre et de ses pr d cesseurs Ramon Muntaner, Chronique La Cr nica et la Cr nica general de Pierre le C r monieux (Pierre IV d'Aragon, Pierre III de Catalogne) Chapitre VI. Textes religieux, Dominique de Courcelles (coord.) Introduction La foir prescrite : litrugie, pastorale, enseignement La foi int rioris e La foi mise en sc ne Chapitre VII. Litt rature sacr e et profane, Marie-Claire Zimmermann (coord.) Introduction L'art de traduire en catalan : hagiographie et litt rature arthurienne Naissance de la po sie en langue catalane : Ausi s March (1400-1459- La cr ation romanesque en langue catalane : Tirant lo Blanc de Joanot Martorell Satire et familiarit en po sie : l'Espill (1460) du Valencine Jaume Roig, satire misogyne en vers t trasyllabiques L'art du r cit et les paradoxes d'une criture dite impossible : Joan Ro s de Corelle, Trag die de Caldesa Chapitre VIII. Les crits pour l' tude de l'art et de l'architecture du domaine catalan m di val, Xavier Barral i Altet (coord.) Introduction : la documentation crite sur l'histoire des arts en Catalogne, un territoire d fricher La m moire des rois : construction textuelle et visuelle Commanditaires et architectes, contrats et expertises De la diversit des sources utiles pour l'histoire de l'art Index Liste des contributeurs Liste des illustrations Table des mati res‎

Bookseller reference : 64364

‎Georgiana Donavin‎

‎John Gower's Rhetoric. Classical Authority, Biblical Ethos, and Renaissance Receptions‎

‎, Brepols, 2023 Hardback, 432 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 5 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503595771.‎

‎Summary This is the first book-length study in decades to offer in-depth readings of a variety of late medieval poems across Gower's trilingual corpus. Identifying Gower's rhetorical cornerstones in Aristotelian pathos, the theology of the Word, and the execution of a plain style, it provides fresh interpretations of poems in Latin, French, and Middle English that arise from an enhanced understanding of Gower's literary methods. It explores the classical and medieval rhetorical traditions that informed Gower's craft, the biblical personae through which the poet achieved his rhetorical aims, and the Renaissance publishers and authors who valued and imitated his strategies for composition. Gower adapted his rhetorical theory from the principles of Aristotelian texts, Augustinian theology, exemplars of Ciceronian style, and the dictates of various artes poetriae; from the latter, John of Garland's Parisiana Poetria is especially important for outlining practices of Marian rhetoric. Modelling virtuous female speakers on the Virgin and prophetic narrators on John the Baptist and John the Evangelist, Gower gave extra-scriptural voice to members of the extended Holy Family and in so doing, achieved unimpeachable expressions inside classically informed structures of discourse. The epistolary structure, proceeding from Ciceronian rhetoric and the artes dictaminis, is one among Gower's favoured rhetorical forms for projecting singular voices. His straightforward, reiterative style in Middle English and his virginal speakers compelled Renaissance publisher Thomas Berthelette and celebrated authors Ben Jonson and William Shakespeare to praise Gower's rhetoric in prefaces and imitate it on the stage. TABLE OF CONTENTS List of Illustrations, Acknowledgements, Abbreviations Introduction Chapter One. Gower's 'Rethorique' Chapter Two. My Name is John: Biblical Ethos and Apocalyptic Narrative Chapter Three. Virgo Bona Dicendi Perita: The Good Maiden Speaking Well Chapter Four. Epistles and Rhetorical Experimentation, Part I: Contexts and Practices Chapter Five. Epistles and Rhetorical Experimentation, Part II: Music and Letters in the Trentham Manuscript Chapter Six. The Hortus Conclusus in Gower's Poems Coda. Renaissance Receptions of Gowerian Repetitio Bibliography Index‎

Bookseller reference : 64506

‎Mark Atherton, Kazutomo Karasawa, Francis Leneghan (eds)‎

‎Ideas of the World in Early Medieval English Literature‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 442 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:17 b/w, 7 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503599571.‎

‎Summary Across three thematically-linked sections, this volume charts the development of competing geographical, national, and imperial identities and communities in early medieval England. Literary works in Old English and Latin are considered alongside theological and historical texts from a range of disciplinary perspectives. Accounts of travel, foreign contacts, conversion, migration, landscape, nation, empire, and conquest are set within the continual flow of people and ideas from East to West, from continent to island and back, across the period. The fifteen contributors investigate how the early medieval English positioned themselves spatially and temporally in relation to their insular neighbours and other peoples and cultures. Several chapters explore the impact of Greek and Latin learning on Old English literature, while others extend the discussion beyond the parameters of Europe to consider connections with Asia and the Far East. Together these essays reflect ideas of inclusivity and exclusivity, connectivity and apartness, multiculturalism and insularity that shaped pre-Conquest England. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments, List of Figures, List of Abbreviations Introduction: Foreign Contacts, Landscapes, and Empire-Building ? MARK ATHERTON, KAZUTOMO KARASAWA, AND FRANCIS LENEGHAN Here, There, and Everywhere? Alfred and the East ? DANIEL ANLEZARK The Wanderings of Saturn: Psychogeography, Psalms, and Solomon and Saturn ? RACHEL BURNS Otherwheres in the Prose Texts of the Nowell Codex ? S. C. THOMSON Rome away from Rome: India, Rome, and England in lfric's 'Life of St Thomas' ? LUISA OSTACCHINI Christ Embracing the World: lfric's Description of the Crucifixion in 'De Passione Domini' ? KAZUTOMO KARASAWA A Place in the World Babel and Beyond: Thinking Through Migration in Genesis A ? DANIEL THOMAS The Sound-World of Early Medieval England: A Case Study of the Exeter Book Storm Riddle ? BRITTON BROOKS The Place of Stillness: Greek Patristic Thought in Cynewulf's Juliana ? ELENI PONIRAKIS St Rumwold in the Borderland ? HANNAH BAILEY The World of Ealdorman Byrhtnoth: A Landscape Biography ? MARK ATHERTON Nation and Empire Mapping Empire: Two World Maps in Early Medieval England ? HELEN APPLETON Good Neighbours? Representations of Britons, Welsh, Picts, and Scots in Pre-Conquest English Sources ? CAITLIN ELLIS From (North-)East to West: Geographical Identities and Political Communities in the Ninth- to Eleventh-Century Anglo-Scandinavian World ? RYAN LAVELLE Kings, People, and Lands: The Rhetoric of The Battle of Brunanburh?PAUL CAVILL End of Empire? Reading?The Death of Edward?in MS Cotton Tiberius B I ? FRANCIS LENEGHAN Index‎

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‎Wendy Scase‎

‎Visible English. Graphic Culture, Scribal Practice, and Identity, c. 700-c. 1550‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, xix + 408 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:4 b/w, 24 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503598420.‎

‎Summary Visible English recovers for the first time the experience of reading and writing the English language in the medieval period through the perspectives of littera pedagogy, the basis of medieval learning and teaching of literate skills in Latin. Littera is at the heart of the set of theories and practices that constitute the 'graphic culture' of the book's title. The book shows for the first time that littera pedagogy was an 'us and them' discourse that functioned as a vehicle for identity formation. Using littera pedagogy as a framework for understanding the medieval English-language corpus from the point of view of the readers and writers who produced it, Visible English offers new insights on experiences of writing and reading English in communities ranging from those first in contact with Latin literacy to those where print was an alternative to manuscript. Discussing a broad range of materials from so-called 'pen-trials' and graffiti to key literary manuscripts, Visible English provides new perspectives on the ways that the alphabet was understood, on genres such as alphabet poems, riddles, and scribal signatures, and on the different ways in which scribes copied Old and Middle English texts. It argues that the graphic culture underpinned and transmitted by littera pedagogy provided frameworks for the development and understanding of English-language literacy practices and new ways of experiencing social belonging and difference. To be literate in English, it proposes, was to inhabit identities marked by Anglophone literate practices. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Visible English Chapter One: Graphs, Alphabets, and Scripts Chapter Two: Graphic Models Chapter Three: Graphic Play Chapter Four: Graphic Display Chapter Five: Reprographics Conclusion: Medieval English Literacy Index‎

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‎Laetitia Sansonetti, R mi Vuillemin (eds)‎

‎Language Commonality and Literary Communities in Early Modern England. Translation, Transmission, Transfer‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 297 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:12 b/w, 2 tables b/w., Language: English. ISBN 9782503598147.‎

‎Summary In the early modern period, the humanist practice of translation of sacred as well as secular texts created new readerships in the vernacular for authoritative texts, religious or classical. As the circulation of languages within Europe reshuffled hierarchies between classical languages and vernacular tongues, transmission via translation was not only vertical, but also horizontal, and the contacts between European languages enabled the expansion of local lexicons from sources other than Latin or Greek. This volume focuses on the role of translation and lexical borrowing in the expansion of specific English lexicons (erudite, technical, or artisanal) as evidenced in printed texts from the early modern period. It considers how language shapes identity in social, religious, philosophical, artistic, and literary contexts, and is in turn shaped by claims of social, religious, philosophical, artistic, and literary identity. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgments, List of Illustrations, Contributors Introduction ? Laetitia Sansonetti and R mi Vuillemin Roots, Germanic and Latinate: English as a Hybrid Language An Expanding or a Fragmenting Lexicon? Some Possible Approaches to Loanwords, Lexical Change, and Multilingual Practices in Early Modern English ? Philip Durkin 'A little mint where you may coin words for your pleasure': Cant and Linguistic Currency in Dekker's Rogue Pamphlets ? Jean-David Eynard Strange Roots in Roman Shakespeare ? Iolanda Plescia Language and Universality: The Transmission of Religious Dogma and Philosophical Concepts Writing Catholic, Translating Protestant: English Translations from French in the Sixteenth Century ? Susan Baddeley Bacon's English and Latin Expositions of the Doctrine of Idols: Their Common Features and Differences ? lodie Cassan A Universe over the Channel: The Circulation of John Wilkins's Universal Language Scheme in Early Modern Europe ? Fabien Simon Transnational Poetic Communities: Appropriating Continental Models Petrarchism as the European Language of Poetry: The Example of 'Chi vuol veder quantunque p natura' ? Enrica Zanin and R mi Vuillemin Traducing Ronsard: Larceny and the Poet in English Love-Lyrics, 1582-1591 ? P draic Lamb) Echo's 'repercussive voix': Ovidian Echo Poems in Early Modern England ? Agn s Lafont The Languages of Artistic Transfer: Music and the Visual Arts 'Their ditties Englished': Naturalizing French Lyrics ? Chantal Sch tz Miniatures in Translation: Words for a Gentle Art ? Anne-Val rie Dulac Index‎

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‎David R. Carlson‎

‎Gower and Anglo-Latin Verse‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 358 pages, Size:152 x 229 mm, Language: English. ISBN 9780888442260.‎

‎Summary This study offers a novel paradigm for explaining the late-medieval Anglo-Latin verse, by analyzing the development of the writings of the English poet John Gower (ca. 1330-1408), who made major contributions to English- and French-language poetry, in addition to being the pre-eminent Latin poet of the ?Age of Chaucer.? In addition to translating amongst the three languages in which he worked, Gower invented a plain style for Latin ?public poetry? that was like his better-known English-language Confessio amantis in emphasizing regular prosodic simplicity; and his plain style was emulated by other Anglo-Latin poets. Gower's Latin public poetry contradicts the other kinds of Latin verse in use in England at the time: on the one hand, the demotic accentual-syllabic rhymed verse in use amongst clerical controversialists and other kinds of social polemicists, characterized by language-mixing and prosodic fluidity within individual poems; and on the other, the hyper-sophisticated poetria nova of the schoolmen. At the end of his career, however, Gower rejected his own plain-style Latin-verse invention to take up instead the late scholastic style, but only at the moment of its decadence, when the humanist neo-classicism that disdained scholasticism would already have begun to arrive in England.‎

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‎John Capgrave, Peter Lucas (ed)‎

‎Rome 1450. Capgrave's Jubilee Guide. The Solace of Pilgrimes‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Paperback, xcv + 442 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:63 b/w, 1 col., Language(s):English, Middle English. ISBN 9782503594675.‎

‎Summary The scene is Rome in the fifteenth century, Golden Rome, a magnet drawing pilgrims by its architectural attractions and the magnitude of its religious importance as the mother of faith. The Austin friar John Capgrave attended Rome for the Jubilee in 1450, including the Lenten stations, and his Solace of Pilgrimes, intended as a guide for subsequent pilgrims, was written up following the author's own pilgrimage. In three parts it covers the ancient monuments, the seven principal churches and the Lenten stations, and other churches of note, especially those dedicated to the Blessed Virgin Mary. The work has been described as the most ambitious description of Rome in Middle English. The present edition offers a new Text based on a transcription of the author's holograph manuscript. Parallel with the Text there is a modern English Translation. The illustrations, mostly from a period slightly later than the 1450 Jubilee, aim to give some visual clue as to what Capgrave saw. There is a full account of the multiple sources that he used, most of which is the product of new research. Following the Text there is a Commentary that aims to provide some background information about the buildings and monuments that Capgrave focuses on, and to explain and illuminate any difficulties or points of interest in the Text. Capgrave is an omni-present guide leading us towards what he considered an appropriate interpretation of the classical past as a foundation for the Christian present, which built on it and surpassed it. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface Abbreviations Introduction Select Bibliography Editorial Procedure The Solace of Pilgrimes by John Capgrave OSA Part I Ancient Rome Introduction and list of chapters in Part I ch 1 The original founders of Rome ch 2 The gates, walls and towers of Rome ch 3 The bridges of Rome ch 4 The hills of Rome ch 5 The 'palaces' in Rome ch 6 The triumphal arches in Rome ch 7 The cymyteries 'catacombs' in Rome ch 8 Holy places and their pre-Christian names ch 9 The Angulla Sancti Petri 'St Peter's Obelisk' ch 10 Pagan temples turned to Christian use ch 11 The Capitol ch 12 The statue of the Dioscuri ch 13 The statue of Marcus Aurelius at the Lateran ch 14 The Coliseum ch 15 The Pantheon ch 16 Ara Celi ch 17 The Mausoleum of Augustus ch 18 The Septizodium ch 19 The Circus of Tarquinius Priscus ch 20 The Cantharus in the atrium in front of old San Pietro ch 21 The 'pyramid' or tomb of Romulus ch 22 The paleys 'temple' of Trajan ch 23 The conch-shaped font where Constantine was allegedly baptized ch 24 The place called Omnis Terra (= Monte Testaccio) ch 25 The rulers of Rome from the time of Romulus to the last king Tarquinius ch 26 The rulers of Rome from Tarquinius to the first emperor ch 27 The emperors of Rome from Julius Caesar to Frederick II (d 1250) Part II The seven principal churches and the stations for Lent Prologus ch 1 San Pietro ch 2 San Paolo fuori le Mura ch 3 San Sebastiano ch 4 San Giovanni in Laterano ch 5 Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ch 6 San Lorenzo fuori le Mura ch 7 Santa Maria Maggiore ch 8 The station at Santa Sabina ch 9 The station at San Giorgio in Velabro ch 10 The station at Santi Giovanni e Paolo ch 11 The station at San Trifone ch 12 The station at San Giovanni in Laterano ch 13 The station at San Pietro in Vincoli ch 14 The station at Santa Anastasia ch 15 The station at Santa Maria Maggiore ch 16 The station at San Lorenzo in Panisperna ch 17 The station at Santi Apostoli ch 18 The station at San Pietro ch 19 The station at Santa Maria in Domnica ch 20 The station at San Clemente ch 21 The station at Santa Balbina ch 22 The station at Santa Cecilia in Trast vere ch 23 The station at Santa Maria in Trast vere ch 24 The station at San Vitale ch 25 The station at Santi Marcellino e Pietro ch 26 The station at San Lorenzo fuori le Mura ch 27 The station at San Marco ch 28 The station at Santa Pudenziana ch 29 The station at San Sisto Vecchio ch 30 The station at Santi Cosma e Damiano ch 31 The station at San Lorenzo in Lucina ch 32 The station at Santa Susanna ch 33 The station at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ch 34 The station at Santi Quattro Coronati ch 35 The station at San Lorenzo in Damaso ch 36 The station at San Paolo fuori le Mura ch 37 The station at San Martino ai Monti and the station at San Silvestro in Capite ch 38 The station at Sant'Eusebio ch 39 The station at San Nicola in Carcere ch 40 The station at San Pietro ch 41 The station at San Crisogono ch 42 The station at San Ciriaco in Thermis ch 43 The station at San Marcello al Corso ch 44 The station at Sant'Apollinare ch 45 The station at San Stefano Rotunda ch 46 The station at San Giovanni alla Porta Latina ch 47 The station at San Giovanni in Laterano ch 48 The station at Santa Prassede and the station at Santi Nereo e Achilleo ch 49 The station at Santa Prisca ch 50 The station at Santa Maria Maggiore ch 51 The station at San Giovanni in Laterano ch 52 The station at Santa Croce in Gerusalemme ch 53 The station at San Giovanni in Laterano ch 54 The station at Santa Maria Maggiore Part III Other churches of note, especially those dedicated to our Lady Prologus ch 1 Santa Maria Rotunda (= Pantheon) ch 2 Santa Maria in Aracoeli ch 3 Lacking ch 4 Santa Maria sopra Minerva ch 5 Santa Maria Annunziata ch 6 Santa Maria in Transpontina ch 7 Santa Maria in Palmis ch 8 Santa Maria del Populo ch 9 Santa Maria Antiqua ch 10 Santa Maria in Cosmedin ch 11 Santa Maria Imperatrice ch 12 Santa Maria della Consolazione ch 13 Santa Maria in Portico Further chapters lacking Commentary Appendix Index of Names and Places‎

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‎Fr d ric Lambert, Guillaume Bonnet (eds)‎

‎Apollonius Dyscole et Priscien : Transmettre, traduire, interpr ter. l ments d'une histoire probl matique‎

‎, Brepols, 2022 Hardback, 324 pages, Size:155 x 245 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, 12 tables b/w., Language(s):French, English. ISBN 9782503596082.‎

‎Summary Apollonius Dyscole, grammairien philologue d'Alexandrie du deuxi me si cle de notre re, fondateur de la syntaxe dans la tradition europ enne, est consid r depuis l'Antiquit comme un des plus grands grammairiens grecs. Son ?uvre est en tout cas certainement la synth se la plus aboutie de l'h ritage des grammairiens grecs et plus largement de tous les philosophes et rh teurs qui ont r fl chi sur le langage. Priscien, qui professait Constantinople quatre si cles plus tard, a abondamment cit et transpos au latin les analyses d'Apollonius, dont il est le premier traducteur et transmetteur. Ce recueil de contributions se propose de faire le point sur l'histoire de la r ception de ces deux grammairiens essentiels pour mieux comprendre comment s'est constitu , travers ruptures et continuit , une discipline cumulative comme la grammaire. TABLE OF CONTENTS Pr sentation (Fr d ric Lambert & Guillaume Bonnet) Liste des abr viations Premi re partie : Apollonius et Priscien aller-retour De Priscien Apollonius : le choix d'un mod le (Marc Baratin) Le domaine de la deixis entre les yeux et l'esprit (Stella Merlin Defanti) Le ?????? dans la tradition grammaticale : Alexandrie, Rome, Byzance (Manuela Callipo) Le silence des grammairiens anciens (Apollonius Dyscole et Priscien) au sujet des adverbes non adverbaux (Lionel Dumarty) Les limites de la cat gorie pronom chez Apollonius et Priscien (Jean Schneider) Apollonius Dyscole, Priscien, et les autres : la probl matique du pronom et la r f rence personnelle (double) (Tim Denecker, Pierre Swiggers & Alfons Wouters) La terminologie dans l'Ars de Priscien : enrichissement du lexique grammatical latin (Madeleine Keller) Deuxi me partie : Moyen- ge et Renaissance lfric's Translation of the Excerptiones de Prisciano into Old English: The Reception of Priscian in Anglo-Saxon England (Yekaterina Yakovenko) The Legacy of Priscian and the Doctrine of Syntax in the Medieval Grammars (Paola Cotticelli Kurras) Priscianic and Medieval Metalanguage in Four Humanist Treatises on Grammar (Anneli Luhtala) Jules-C sar Scaliger, Priscien et les Grecs (Bernard Colombat) Traduire la Syntaxe la Renaissance : le t moignage des manuscrits (Filippomaria Pontani) Comment convertir ?????????? ? ???????? en Apollonius Facilis : propos de la premi re dition critique du ???? ????????? (1590) (Ana Kotarcic, Raf Van Rooy & Pierre Swiggers) Troisi me partie : Apollonius, Priscien et la linguistique Retour sur la transmission matricielle des parties du discours l'aune de la Syn-taxe d'Apollonius et de la syn-cat gor matique de Priscien (Rim Abidi) Emile Egger lecteur critique d'Apollonius Dyscole : un mod le pour le XXIe si cle? (Fr d ric Lambert) Indices‎

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‎Scott Bruce (ed)‎

‎Litterarum dulces fructus. Studies in Early Medieval Latin Culture in Honour of Michael W. Herren for his 80th Birthday‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 511 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:18 b/w, 1 col., Language(s):English, German. ISBN 9782503589763.‎

‎Summary Drawing inspiration from the scholarship of Professor Michael Herren, founding editor of The Journal of Medieval Latin, this florilegium of studies advances our understanding of the dynamics of Latin and vernacular literature and learning in the early medieval world. Taken together, the papers gathered in this volume cast light on authors, poets, glossators, and compilers at work as they grappled with linguistic and literary ambitions and challenges, while negotiating their use of ancient authorities to address contemporary concerns. TABLE OF CONTENTS Scott G. Bruce (Fordham University), "Michael W. Herren: An Appreciation" Alexander Andr e (University of Toronto), "Ad utrumque paratus: The Medieval Latinist and the Classical Tradition" Walter Berschin (Ruprecht-Karls-Universit t Heidelberg), "Iohannes Scottus Eriugena, Honorius Augustodunensis und die karolingisch-neuplatonische Naturphilosophie im Bild (Paris, BNF Latin 6734)" Scott G. Bruce (Fordham University), "The Redemption of Flavius Josephus in the Medieval Latin Tradition Brigitte Bulitta (S chsische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Leipzig), "Ein Heiliger als furcifer: Zur Glossierung von latineisch glisis durch fr hmittelhochdeutsch ouenkere in einem Fuldaer Handschriftenfragment der Vita Wilhelmini confessoris aus dem 12. Jahrhundert" Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann (Universit t Z rich), "The Whole and Parts of Adhelm's De metris et enigmatibus ac pedum regulis (Epistola ad Acircium) Scott Gwara (University of South Carolina), "Pioneer Connoisseurship in Upper Canada: Henry Scadding's 1901 Bequest of Early Manuscripts at the University of Toronto in 1901" Justin Haynes (Georgetown University), "Roger Bacon's Reading of Aethicus Ister in His Opus Maius" Michael Lapidge (University of Cambridge), "Poetic Compounds in Late Latin and Early Medieval Latin Verse (300-900)" Patrizia Lendinara (University of Palermo), "Medieval Versifications of Lists of Animal Sounds" Tristan Major (Qatar University), "The Number Seventy-Two in Early Anglo-Latin Literature" Haruko Momma (New York University) "'Element by Element': Glosses, Loan Translations, and Lexical Enrichment in Old English." Joseph Falaky Nagy (Harvard University), "A Future for the Beholder's Eye" Sinead O'Sullivan (Queen's University Belfast), "The Practice of 'Alignment' in Medieval Ireland" Jennifer Reid (University of Winnipeg), "Patrick and Social Identity at the End of Roman Britain" Peter Stotz (University of Zurich), "Iam satis blando satiate Iusu: Eine bisher unbekannte Ode eines Humanisten auf die Jungfrau Maria" Mariken Teeuwen (Utrecht University), "I2's Interest in Music: Two Manuscripts that Witness His Knowledge and Scholarship" Benjamin Wheaton (University of Toronto at Mississauga), "Nicetius of Trier's Letter to Justinian and the Aphthartodocetic Controversy" Dylan Wilkerson (University of Toronto), "Filologos ration<is> uel uerbi amatores: Interpretive Strategies of a Medieval Philologist Preserved in the Corpus Glossary"‎

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‎John O'Brien, Marc Schachter (eds)‎

‎Sedition. The Spread of Controversial Literature and Ideas in France and Scotland, c. 1550-1610‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 324 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 b/w, 1 col., Language(s):English, French. ISBN 9782503589909.‎

‎Summary This interdisciplinary collection examines the notion of sedition in the period of the French Wars of Religion (1560-1600) and focuses not only on France itself, but also on Scotland during the reign of the French-born Mary Queen of Scots. Composed of eleven chapters written by an international team of experts, this volume concentrates on the political aspects of sedition rather than religious heresy, and covers writings and publications in a wide range of fields: politics, history, law, literature, and gender. A complementary feature of this collection is the spectrum of writings studied; they include edicts and treatises, pamphlets, broadsides, legal documents, dialogues, and satirical prose and poetry. Several chapters also address visual representations of sedition. An Introduction and a Conclusion provide synthetic analyses of the material studied in the individual chapters. This is a collection which will appeal to readers with interests in the history of political ideas and thought, the comparative study of monarchical government, and concepts of tyranny and resistance, discord, rebellion, and revolt. TABLE OF CONTENTS Acknowledgements, List of Figures Introduction Sedition: From Disobedience to Revolt - John O'Brien and Marc Schachter The Language of Sedition La s dition pendant les guerres civiles (France, 1560-1600): une histoire sans v nement - Paul-Alexis Mellet The Language of Religious Conflict: Seditions, Assemblies, Emotions, Violences? - George Hoffmann Sources of Sedition Heresy and Sedition in Pierre de Ronsard's Discours des mis res de ce temps (1562) and Pierre Boton's La France divis e (c. 1595) - Andrea Frisch The Role of John Knox and his Seditious Writings in the Outbreak of the French Wars of Religion - ric Durot Cicero the Revolutionary: Some Seditious Motifs in the Literature of the French Wars of Religion - John O'Brien Genre and the Question of Sedition 'Books with Sharp Teeth': The Perception of Seditious Books in Early Modern France - Natalia Wawrzyniak How Not to Be (and Sound) Seditious: The Prince de Cond 's Justifications for Starting the First War of Religion (1562-63) - Ullrich Langer Political Crime in the Wars of Religion: Fran ois Brigard's Sedition - Tom Hamilton Gender, Sedition, and Literature The Sempill Ballats: Gendering Sedition and Rebellion - Armel Dubois-Nayt The Seditious Pleasures of the Prince in the Reveille-matin's Denunciation of Tyranny - Marc Schachter Styling Sedition in The Island of Hermaphrodites (L'Isle des hermaphrodites, 1605) - Kathleen Long Conclusion The Several Faces of Sedition - Mark Greengrass (with D nes Harai) Index‎

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‎Sophie Aubert-Baillot‎

‎grec et la philosophie dans la correspondance de Cic ron‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Paperback, 696 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:6 tables b/w., Language(s):French, Latin, Greek. ISBN 9782503591551.‎

‎Summary Situ e au carrefour de la linguistique, de la litt rature antique, de la philosophie grecque et romaine ainsi que de l'histoire des id es Rome la fin de la R publique, cette tude cherche examiner comment le ?code-switching? (ou basculement d'une langue l'autre) r v le les origines, l' laboration et l' volution de la pens e philosophique de Cic ron dans un genre marginal, semi-priv et informel - la correspondance?- qui entretiens d' troites affinit s tant avec le bilinguisme qu'avec avec la philosophie. Apr s une d finition puis une triple analyse, formelle, culturelle et prosopographique, du corpus retenu, ce livre s'attache aux sources philosophiques du grec figurant dans les lettres cic roniennes en quatre tapes successives, incarn es respectivement par Platon, les Socratiques (X nophon et Antisth ne) et les Acad miciens (Arc silas, Carn ade, Philon), par Aristote et les P ripat ticiens (Th ophraste et Dic arque), par picure et les picuriens (Philod me de Gadara) et par les Sto ciens. Elle r v le la r currence, la pr cision, la subtilit des emprunts de Cic ron la philosophie classique et hell nistique, mais aussi la vari t de leurs emplois et de leurs fonctions. La correspondance constitue souvent un laboratoire de la pens e o la gen se de celle-ci est plus perceptible que dans les dialogues ou les trait s et une analyse syst matique du bilinguisme qui s'y manifeste constitue un angle d'approche in dit et f cond pour approfondir notre connaissance de la philosophie cic ronienne et hell nistique. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Premi re partie. Le grec et la philosophie dans la correspondance de Cic ron : analyse formelle et?prosopographique du corpus Chapitre I?: D finition du corpus Chapitre II : Le grec et la philosophie : formes, fonctions, origines Chapitre III : Identit s, fonctions, langages Deuxi me partie. Les sources philosophiques du grec dans la correspondance de Cic ron Chapitre I : Platon, les Socratiques et les Acad miciens Chapitre II : Aristote et les P ripat ticiens Chapitre III : picure et les picuriens Chapitre IV : Les Sto ciens Conclusion Bibliographie Index locorum‎

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‎Simon Thomson (ed)‎

‎Medieval Stories and Storytelling. Multimedia and Multi-Temporal perspectives‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 319 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:19 b/w, 3 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503590509.‎

‎Summary The shaping and sharing of narrative has always been key to the negotiation and recreation of reality for individuals and cultural groups. Some stories, indeed, seem to possess a life of their own: claiming a peculiar agency and taking on distinct voices which speak across time and space. How, for example, do objects, manuscripts, and other artefacts communicate alternative or complementary narratives that transcend textual and linguistic boundaries? How are stories created, reshaped, and re-experienced, and how do these shifting contexts and media change meaning? This volume of essays explores these questions about meaning and identity in a range of ways. As a collection, it demonstrates the importance of interdisciplinary and context-focused enquiry when approaching key issues of activity and identity in the medieval period. Ultimately, the process of making meaning through shaping narrative is shown to be as vital and varied in the medieval world as it is today. With a wide range of different disciplinary approaches from leading scholars in their respective fields, chapters include considerations of art, architecture, metalwork, linguistics, and literature. Alongside examinations of medieval cultural productions are explorations of the representation and adaptation of medieval storytelling in graphic novels, classroom teaching, and computer gaming. This volume thus offers an interdisciplinary exploration of how stories from across the medieval world were shaped, transformed, and transmitted. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction: Stories and their Tellers S. C. Thomson Beowulf Goes to School: Adaptations and transformations for the Secondary Classroom Janes Coles, Theo Bryer, and Daniel Ferreira 'Retelling Old Stories for New Audiences': Shaping and Visualizing Beowulf through Gareth Hinds' Graphic Novels [The Collected Beowulf (2003) & Beowulf (2007)] Jorge Luis Bueno Alonso Being Numerous: Communal Storytelling in Li smannaflokkr Erin Michelle Goeres Performance and Emotions in Four Epic Works about Roland Evelyn Birge Vitz Towards a Poetics of Storytelling, or, why could Early Medieval English Writers not stop telling the Story of Judith? S. C. Thomson Mosaics, Marbles, and Medievalisms: Displaying the Foundation Narrative of the English Church in Westminster Cathedral Meg Boulton A Storied Cathedral: Space and Audacious Women in Early Medieval Durham Euan McCartney Robson Dynamic Material Aspects of Writing in Wolfram of Eschenbach's Titurel Christoph Witt Iceland's Alexander: Gunnarr and Pale Corn in Nj ls Saga Richard North Sensing Stories: Iconography, Pattern, and Abstraction in Metalwork from Early Medieval England Melissa Herman A Telling Tradition: Preliminary Comments on the Epic of Manas, 1856-2018 James Plumtree Index‎

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‎Ioannis Deligiannis, Vasileios Pappas, Vaios Vaiopoulos (eds)‎

‎Latin in Byzantium III: Post-Byzantine Latinitas. Latin in Post-Byzantine Scholarship (15th -19th Centuries)‎

‎, Brepols, 2021 Hardback, 490 pages, Size:155 x 245 mm, Illustrations:14 b/w, 8 tables b/w., 2 maps b/w, Language(s):English, Latin, Greek. ISBN 9782503589947.‎

‎Summary This volume aims at filling a major gap in international literature concerning the knowledge of the Latin language and literature by Post-Byzantine scholars from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Most of them, immigrants to the West after the Fall of Byzantium, harmoniously integrated into their host countries, practiced and perfected their knowledge of the Latin language and literature, excelled in arts and letters and, in many cases, managed to obtain civil, political and clerical offices. They wrote original poetic and prose works in Latin, for literary, scholarly and/or political purposes. They also translated Greek texts into Latin, and vice versa. The contributors to this volume explore the multifaceted aspects of the knowledge of the Latin language and literature by these scholars. Among the many issues addressed in the volume are: the reasons that urged Post-Byzantine scholars to compose Latin works and disseminate Ancient Greek works to the West and Latin texts to the East, their audience, the fate of their projects, and their relations among them and with Western scholars. In the contents of the volume one can find well known Post-Byzantine scholars such as Bessarion or Isidore of Kiev, as well as lesser known authors like Ioannis Gemistos, Nikolaos Sekoundinos and others. Hence, hereby is provided a canon of scholars who, albeit Greek, are considered essentially as representatives of Neo-Latin literature, along with others who, through their translations, contributed to the rapprochement - literary and political - of East and West. TABLE OF CONTENTS Preface List of Contributors List of Abbreviations Introductory Note A. Introduction Dimitrios Nikitas, An Overview of Post-Byzantine Latinitas B. Greek Studies in the West and Latin Studies in the East in the Post-Byzantine Period and Early Modern Greek Period Christina Abenstein, Treason, Ambition, and Hardship on the Cultural Entanglement of George of Trebizond's Revised Draft of his Translation of Saint Basil Garyfallia Athanasiadou, Reforming a Translation: Nicholas Secundinus's Contribution to the Revised Translation of Arrian's Anabasis of Alexander Made by Bartolomeo Facio Malika Bastin-Hammou, Aemilius Portus, between Greek Scholar and Latin Humanist: Some Relexions on Aemilius Portus's Edition of Aristophanes (1607) Federica Ciccolella, When Cicero Meets Hermogenes: The Defence of Greek Studies in Quattrocento Italy Ioannis Deligiannis, The Diffusion of the Latin Translations of Greek Texts Produced by Late and Post-Byzantine Scholars and Printed from the Mid-Fifteenth to Late Sixteenth Century Michael Malone-Lee, The Latin Translations of Cardinal Bessarion Andreas ?. Michalopoulos & Charilaos ?. Michalopoulos, Modern Greek Translations of Latin Poetic Quotations in the ??????? ????????? (Theatrum Politicum) Vasileios Pappas, The Translation of Justin's Epitome of Trogus by Ioannis Makolas (1686) C. Latin Texts in the Post-Byzantine and Early Modern Greek Period: Theology and Religion, History and Literature, Politics, Ideology and National Identity Ovanes Akopyan, Latin Studies and Greek Scholars in Early Modern Russia Byard Benett, Augustine's Theology as a Resource for Reconciling the Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches in the Post-Byzantine Period: Maximus Margunius's Greek and Latin Works on the Procession of the Holy Spirit Ilias Giarenis, Leonardo Bruni and Bessarion: Two Scholars, Two Languages, and Two Versions of Liberty in the Fifteenth Century Nikolaos E. Karapidakis, Latinitas or Romanitas Nostra: Latin Culture in the Seven Islands under the Venetian Domination (XIXth-XIXth century) Han Lamers, What's in a Name? Naming the 'Post-Byzantines' in Renaissance Italy (and Beyond) Nikolaos Mavrelos, Latinitas Graecorum: Latin Language Used by Greeks and Greek Identity in Seventeenth-and-Eighteenth-Century Texts Lorenzo Miletti, Between Herodotus and the Poison Maiden. Laonikos Chalkokondyles and the Death of King Ladislaus of Durazzo Sophia Papaioannou, Exempla Virtutis and Augustinian Ethics in De Statu Hominis by Leonardus, Archbishop of Mytilene Theodosios Pylarinos & Vaios Vaiopoulos, Life and Work of a ???????????? Corfiot: Antonio Rodostamo (???????? ??????????) Konstantinos Staikos, Eugenios Voulgaris's Edition of Virgil's Aeneid Raf Van Rooy, A Latin Defence of Early Modern Greek Culture: Alexander Helladius's Status Praesens (1714) and its Linguistic Arguments Index of names Index of manuscripts‎

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‎Karine Moreau-Guibert‎

‎Pore Caitif. A Middle English Manual of Religion and Devotion‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Paperback, 296 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:2 b/w, Language: English. ISBN 9782503582931.‎

‎Summary The Pore Caitif is an anonymous late fourteenth-century manual of devotion and religious instruction destined for a lay readership. The text, in its various forms, circulated widely and was evidently very popular, as the fifty of so extant manuscripts and fragments readily attest. Of them, no fewer that twenty-eight transmit a full text showing remarkable fidelity to the now presumably lost archetype. As such, the Pore Caitif invites comparison with the considerable production and diffusion of religious texts in English which figure prominently in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. In this respect, it is to note that some critics have argued for the presence of Lollard interpolators or commentators in a number of the extant manuscripts, including the influence of the Wycliffite Bible translation. This edition will be published in two volumes. This, the first, provides a full Introduction to the manuscripts and their transmission, classifying them in groups, while examining some of the trends observable in some of the more notable variants they inevitably preserve. A commentary on the text is followed by a full glossary. The second volume will discuss manuscript relationships and the problems arising therefrom. TABLE OF CONTENTS Abbreviations and symbols Abbreviations and short titles Symbols Preface General introduction Manuscripts Identification of the Pore Caitif The various forms of the text The transmission of the text Which edition? The adopted method Textual collation and selection Selected manuscripts and base text Critical Edition Editorial procedures and conventions Description of the manuscripts Text Glossary Keys Appendices Explanatory notes on text and emendations Index Nominum Reference composite text Bibliography Primary sources Secondary Sources Electronic resources‎

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‎Olivia Robinson‎

‎Contest, Translation, and the Chaucerian Text‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, 232 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:3 b/w, 6 col., Languages: English, French. ISBN 9782503546636.‎

‎Summary This sophisticated volume sheds new light on the transmission of texts in the medieval period by drawing into dialogue a study of medieval translation between English and French with questions concerning the Chaucerian canon and its reception. The author takes as a focus point three Middle English translations of French-language works - The Romaunt of the Rose, the Belle Dame Sans Mercy, and An ABC to the Virgin - and assesses the way in which these works respond to and reconfigure their source material, while at the same time questioning how the connection of these translations with Chaucer has influenced our critical understanding of them. In this book, these three translations are therefore removed from their habitual place on the fringes of the English Chaucer canon, and are instead analysed in the context of late-medieval literary and cultural hybridity. The result is a fascinating reconceptualization of these works as creative, cross-channel participations in late- medieval debates, and simultaneously a call for the reappraisal of 'the Chaucerian' as a critical category.‎

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‎Marleen Cr , Diana Denissen, Denis Renevey (eds)‎

‎Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in England‎

‎, Brepols, 2020 Hardback, xii + 464 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:3 col., Language: English. ISBN 9782503574776.‎

‎Summary Devotional compilations were the staple spiritual food for lay and religious readers in the late medieval period. As well thought-out assemblages of texts or extracts of texts, they provided readers with material from basic catechetic instruction to advice and tools for the practice of contemplation. Their exploration enables a more sophisticated understanding of the authorial roles played by compilers, the reading practices of their recipients, and the patronage of compilations carried out by religious and secular individuals and communities. It also offers a new window into late medieval English religiosity as well as demonstrating the complexity and creativity associated with compiling activity. In this volume, leading scholars in the field of medieval English literature consider the role and impact of a substantial number of devotional compilations, offering new evidence about the manuscripts, sources, and contexts that frame this important corpus. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction - MARLEEN CR , DIANA DENISSEN, AND DENIS RENEVEY Part I: The Dynamics of Devotional Compilations Building a Bestseller: The Priest, the Peartree, and the Compiler - VINCENT GILLESPIE Compilation: The Gift that Keeps on Giving - RALPH HANNA Theorizing the Miscellaneous and the Middle English Biblical Paratext - IAN JOHNSON A Talkyng of the Loue of God: The Art of Compilation and the Compiled Self - ANNIE SUTHERLAND Reading Late Medieval Devotional Compilations in the Fifteenth and Sixteenth Centuries - MARGARET CONNOLLY Part II: Compiling the Compilation: Manuscript Transmission Form and Fluidity: Reshaping The Pore Caitif and Contemplations of the Dread and Love of God in Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 423 and Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 938 - DIANA DENISSEN Suffering for Love: Compilation and Asceticism in Life of Soul - SARAH MACMILLAN Compilers' Voices in Cambridge, University Library MS Ii. 6. 40 - MARLEEN CR Part III: Compilation and Devotional Practice A Hagiographic Compilation of Medieval Native Women in the South English Legendaries: Oxford, Bodleian Library, MS Bodley 779 - MAMI KANNO Devotional Compilations and Lollard Sanctity in a Fifteenth-Century Anthology - NICOLE RICE 'When is a man proude. Whe[n] he wol not beknowen suche as he is': Knowing oneself in London, British Library, MS Additional 27787 - SHERI SMITH Resignation or Rebuttal?: Three Biblical Exempla in Richard Whitford's Dyuers Holy Instrucyons and Teachynges - BRANDON ALAKAS Part IV: Mystics Compiled 'Desyrable is thi Name': Fashioning the Name of Jesus in Some Devotional Compilations - DENIS RENEVEY The Scale of Perfection in Devotional Compilations - MICHAEL G. SARGENT The Liber Specialis Gratiae in a Devotional Anthology: London, British Library, MS Harley 494 - NAOE KUKITA YOSHIKAWA Part V: Texts, Images and Affect The Living Book of Cambridge, Trinity College MS B.15.42: Compilation, Meditation, and Vision - LAURA SAETVEIT MILES The Desert of Religion: A Textual and Visual Compilation - ANNE MOURON What Grace in Presence: Affective Literacies in The Chastising of God's Children - A.S. LAZIKANI Afterword The Terminology and Ethos of Vernacular Compilatio - NICHOLAS WATSON *** Index of Manuscripts General Index‎

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