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Paperback, 335 p., 14 b/w ill. + 29 colour ill., 21 x 27. ISBN 9782503543857. The history of liturgy (and liturgical books) constitutes today a special field of research for medievalists. That of memory, ?« by definition, increased and decreased, collective, plural and individual ?» (P. Nora, Entre memoire... , p. xix-xx), enters into this interdisciplinarity, which exerts itself more and more naturally and is the subject of numerous publications during the past several decades. The current volume responds to research issues that benefit from a new perspective on the manuscript book in the largest sense of the subject. Languages : French, English, Italian.
Paperback, 150 p., 14 b/w ill. + 29 colour ill., 21 x 27. ISBN 04010892. Christine Bousquet-Labouerie Un franciscain en Chine : Oderic de Pordenone John C. Ford Metatextual evidence of a relationship between the anglo-norman version of Amys e Amilliyoun in ms Karlsruhe 345 and the middle english Text of Amis and Amiloun in ms Auchinleck W.4.1. Jean-Luc Deuffic Au service de l?Universite et au conseil du duc. Notes sur le canoniste breton Henri Bohic (+ v. 1357) Jean-Luc Deuffic Notes de bibliologie bretonne (IXe - XVIe s.) I. Gloses en vieux-breton dans un manuscrit de l?Universite de Yale II. Un manuscrit de Bede d?une abbaye bretonne oubliee : Locmaria de Quimper III. La Bible historiale d?Herve de Leon : Paris Bibliotheque Sainte-Genevieve ms 22 IV. Yves Le Gorgeu, maistre escripvain de Paris en la rue des Bretons (ca 1385) V. Les origines bretonnes d'Alain de ?« Lille ?» et le manuscrit Marseille BM 436 VI. Le Catholicon de Guemene VII. Les Heures bretonnes a l?usage de Quimper de Gilles de Kerampuil. Languages : French, English.
Paperback, 183 p., 21 x 27. ISBN 04010894. Louis Jarry Jean, batard d'Orleans. Testaments, inventaire et compte des obseques Samuel Berger Les reliques de l'abbaye de Saint-Riquier au IXe s. Inventaire du Tresor de S. Denis ou sont declarees brievement les pieces suivant l'ordre des armoires dans lesquels on les fait voir Eugene Muller Inventaire de la Collegiale Saint-Cosme de Luzarches aux XIVe et XVe siecles Max Quantin Inventaire du Tresor de la cathedrale d'Auxerre en 1531 Jean-Luc Deuffic Notes de bibliologie bretonne (II) I. Les anciens livres liturgiques de la cathedrale de Treguier II. Un imprimeur et relieur breton a Londres : Julian Notary (ca 1455- apres 1523) III. Les copistes bretons du scriptorium de la chartreuse de Champmol IV. Yves du Run, ?« escrivain ?» et libraire jure de l'Universite de Paris (? avant 1376) V. Les manuscrits d'Olivier Salahadin, Grand Maitre du college royal de Navarre (+1354) VI. A propos d'Alain de Lille et du manuscrit Marseille BM 436 VII. Salomon An Berre VIII. Un copiste breton au service du chancelier Nicolas Rolin : Yvonet Le Fur Chronique du Livre d'heures manuscrit. Languages : French, English.
Paperback, 320 p., 62 b/w ill. + 8 colour ill., 21 x 27. ISBN 9782503532790. S'il s'agit d'un constat, a n'en pas douter le manuscrit medieval est au coeur de cet ouvrage. La recherche des sources autour d'un commanditaire ou d'un artisan, d'un copiste ou d'un ?« chasseur ?» de manuscrits, cette demarche de vouloir identifier l'identifiable devient alors ineluctable. L'auteur nous propose ici ses notes de bibliologie dont une large part tient au domaine breton, reste ouvert aux multiples echanges artistiques. Du seigneur bibliophile au prelat, arguant de sa notoriete, du bourgeois aise, avide de reconnaissance sociale, au ?« maistre ?» universitaire, le livre manuscrit est presentement mis en valeur, a l'exemple de ces Heures, ces livres de prieres enlumines si populaires au Moyen Age, objet de pratiques devotionnelles. L'histoire de la societe medievale ne peut s'ecrire sans le livre et l'image. L'image partout presente. L'image language. Au-dela de cette precieuse iconographie, le texte nous devoile parfois les origines d'un manuscrit reste anonyme : une liturgie propre, le culte d'un saint local, aident ainsi a son identification. L'histoire des textes comme l'histoire des images reste inseparable de l'histoire des livres qui les transmettent. Mais derriere le livre se cache aussi l'homme. Destinataire ou collectionneur, copiste ou enlumineur, imprimeur, toutes ces personnalites s'inserent dans un vaste shema ou chacun laisse inevitablement ses empreintes. Dans ces notes de bibliologie, chaque livre prend place en une trame culturelle comme un maillon du savoir. Source d'interrogations multiples, le manuscrit illustre son epoque. Cette compilation demontre a n'en pas douter son importance au sein de la societe medievale, a une epoque ou il atteint la mouvance des litterati laics, et penetre les premieres ?« librairies ?». Languages : French, English.
Paperback, 205 p., 21 x 27. ISBN 04010890. Benoit Beyer de Ryke, Les encyclopedies medievales. Un etat de la question, p. 9 Jean-Luc Deuffic, Un logicien renomme, proviseur de Sorbonne au XIVe siecle. Raoul le Breton de Ploudiry. Notes bio-bibliographiques Francine Michaud, The Pilgrim, the Priest, and the Beguine. Ascetic tradition vs. Christian Humanism in late medieval religious practices, p. 15 Archives du Moyen Age La Grande Confrerie Notre-Dame aux pretres et aux bourgeois de Paris, p. 183 Publication des manuscrits Paris AN LL 435, f. 27v-33 (XIIIe s.) et debut du LL 436 (1424) Horae Chronique du Livre d'Heures manuscrit, p. 197. Languages : French, English.
Paperback, 167 p., 21 x 27. ISBN 04010893. J. Roman Inventaires & documents relatifs aux joyaux et tapisseries des princes d'Orleans (1389-1481) Reprise de l'edition de Paris, 1896. Languages : French, English.
Paperback, 84 p., 21 x 27. ISBN 04010891. Bruce C. Brasington A note on a glossary to a carolingian canon law manuscript (glossaire du manuscrit Vatican Latin 1347) Francois Falc'hun (+) Cum olim monasterium b. Melanii ... Relation de miracles a Saint-Melaine de Rennes (XIIe siecle) : texte et traduction (Paris BnF Lat. 13089) Jean-Luc Deuffic La confrerie Saint-Yves de Paris en 1368. Une liste de membres inedite Archives du Moyen Age La Grande Confrerie de Notre-Dame aux pretres et bourgeois de Paris (suite de l'edition des documents necrologiques) Horae Chronique du Livres d'Heures manuscrit. Languages : French, English.
Paperback, 657 p., 21 x 27. ISBN 04010895. Alors que l'etude historique des formes de la saintete, des textes hagiographiques et des miracles a connu un essor remarquable chez les medievistes des le milieu des annees 1960, les reliques ne sont entrees qu'assez recemment dans le champ de la recherche. En effet, si l'on met de cote les ouvrages pionniers d'A. Grabar (Martyrium, 1946), axes sur l'histoire de l'architecture religieuse de l'Antiquite tardive, et de A. Frolow sur La relique de la Vraie Croix (1961) qui concerne surtout le monde byzantin, il a fallu attendre la fin des annees 1970, avec les livres de Patrick Geary sur les vols de reliques (Furta sacra. Thefts of Relics in the Central Middle Ages, 1978) et de Martin Heinzelmann sur les recits de translation (Translationsberichte und andere Quellen des Reliquienkultes, 1979) pour que l'importance de ces "fragments d'eternite" presents au coeur des societes medievales et modernes commence a etre bien percue. Encore les grandes syntheses ou la centralite des reliques dans l'univers et la vie des hommes de ce temps est nettement affirmee sont-elles assez recentes, qu'il s'agisse de l'ouvrage d'Arnold Angenendt (Heiligen und Reliquien, 1994), des actes du colloque de Boulogne-sur-Mer sur Les reliques. Objets, cultes, symboles, edites par E. Bozoky et A. M. Helvetius (1999), ou encore du vaste panorama brosse par H. Van Os dans The Way to Heaven. Relics Veneration in the Middle Ages (2000). Sous l'heureuse influence de ces auteurs et de quelques autres dont l'enumeration risquerait de transformer cette introduction en un palmares fastidieux, une prise de conscience s'est operee au niveau europeen parmi les chercheurs, et en particulier les plus jeunes, comme en temoignent la richesse et la variete du bouquet de contributions, ecrites dans diverses langues, que la revue Pecia a reunies sur le theme des reliques dans le present volume... ?». Languages : French, English.
Paperback, 194 p., 15,6 x 23,4. ISBN 9782503516394. "Et si la mort de femmes faisait vivre une langue mourante ? Autrement dit, qu'est-ce qui pourrait maintenir l'usage d'une langue menacee?" Le present ouvrage examine comment, en contexte occitan, cette question sociolinguistique s'articule et s'affirme dans la representation litteraire de la femme, de la feminite et de la mort. Rediges entre la fin du dix-neuvieme siecle et la deuxieme moitie du vingtieme siecle, les textes etudies - poemes, romans, discours, souvenirs, piece de theatre - sont ceux de quatre femmes auteurs, Philadelphe de Gerde (Claude Duclos-Requier), Calelhon (Julienne Fraysse-Seguret), Clardeluno (Jeanne Barthes) et Farfantello (Henriette Dibon). Membres du Felibrige, celles-ci ont choisi d'ecrire en occitan a une epoque ou l'usage de cette langue decroit rapidement. La lecture qui est ici proposee retient trois considerations. La premiere est strategique : il s'agit d'observer par quels moyens litteraires se conjuguent la promotion de la langue, la reflexion sur la mort et la mise en scene de personnages feminins. Parmi les pratiques qui illustrent et developpent cette problematique figurent la description de paysages, le projet autobiographique, la reecriture de legendes ou d'anciens poemes, le travail documentaire, et jusqu'a l'auto-traduction. Deuxiemement, la mise en fiction de la mort de la langue souleve la question de la portee de cet engagement socioculturel, car, devenu litteraire, celui-ci est expose a des enjeux qui le depassent et qui touchent, par exemple, au traitement de la condition feminine dans la fiction, a l'elitisme qu'evoque et nourrit la litterature, ou encore a l'autorite de la voix individuelle dans la defense d'une cause qui concerne, en fait, tout un groupe. Finalement, cette etude a pour objectif de presenter l'?uvre considerable, mais meconnue, de quatre femmes qui ont activement participe aux debats de leur temps. Languages : Occitan, French.
Paperback, XII+592 p., 15,6 x 23,4. ISBN 9782503515229. The Breviari d'Amor dates from 1288 (and was probably completed around 1292), is about 34,500 lines long and written in octosyllabic rhyming couplets. It exists in twelve full or almost full manuscripts and twelve fragments. It is written in Medieval Occitan and is the product in part of a long theological tradition and in part of the courtly tradition. This is the first edition to be published since the two-volume work of Gabriel Azais (1862-1881), which was of great merit for its time, but used only four of the manuscripts. The numbering of the present edition follows that of Azais, given the many works which allude to the Breviari. This didactic text has necessarily been labeled as "encyclopaedic" and this is certainly not a matter of dispute, although, in terms of the subject matter, it is very unusual since the emphasis is not only theological but also courtly. It conforms to the general perspective adopted by summae but the particular integration of the theological aspects with the debate on the nature of fin'amor makes it unique. Three volumes of text have been published, each with a selective glossary and bibliography, volume V (1976), which gives the final 7,000 odd lines with identification of the troubadour quotations (and a few others from the Old French trouvere tradition and from the non-lyric Occitan genres) and adds, in an Appendix, the letter of Matfre to his sister. This volume is now out of print, but a new edition, which adds a French translation, will be published very soon. The succeeding volumes respect the linear tradition of the Breviari, vol. II (1989), the first 8,800 lines, vol. III (1998), the next 8,000 approximately, published in the Publications de l'A.I.E.O. The present volume, vol. IV, completes the text and ends at line 27252, taking the reader up to the beginning of volume V, which itself ends at line 34597. It deals with the nature of sin and its manifestation according to the classes and professions of society, and then examines the fundamental Christian virtue of love of one's neighbour. The concept of the tree of life is treated along with the three theological virtues, the four cardinal virtues and the seven gifts of the Holy Spirit. The matter of faith is discussed and six of the articles of the Credo. The volume ends with a treatise on the lives of the apostles, Andrew, John the Baptist and Thomas. It is hoped that publication of volume VI, an exhaustive glossary (probably with a CD ROM of the text) will appear in the next three years, and, shortly after, volume I, the Introduction, to complete this huge enterprise. Languages : Occitan, French.
Paperback, XIII+501 p., 15,6 x 23,4. ISBN 9782503519890. La langue occitane (ou langue d'oc) est l'objet d'un interet croissant dans la societe. Bien que son usage ait fortement recule, une partie de la population manifeste le desir d'acceder a cette langue et de la pratiquer pleinement dans le monde moderne. Son enseignement et sa creativite ont connu plusieurs renouveaux, notamment depuis les annees 1990-2000. Simultanement, l'occitan est devenu langue officielle dans le Val d'Aran (Espagne) en 1990 et langue protegee en Italie en 1999. Cette nouvelle donne demande que l'on rende la langue accessible aux nouveaux locuteurs. Precisement, la sociolinguistique fournit des modeles de developpement pour les langues subordonnees, en liaison avec les experiences du terrain. Ce livre applique en occitan les acquis de cette recherche internationale, qui a deja beneficie a de nombreuses langues dans le monde. Il explore la "planification linguistique", qui concerne la forme de la langue (corpus) et ses fonctions sociales (statut). Il detaille notamment les applications concernant la forme (corpus) dans les domaines du lexique et de la morphologie. Il en resulte la proposition de developper un occitan standard -ou "occitan larg"- qui se decline en sept varietes regionales, etroitement coordonnees: gascon, limousin, auvergnat, vivaro-alpin, provencal general, nicois et languedocien. La premiere partie analyse les enjeux sociaux, les mythes de la diglossie et les travaux anterieurs de codification. La deuxieme partie explore les ressources du diasysteme (correspondances entre les dialectes). La troisieme expose les principes de l'elaboration des dictionnaires, de la codification et du completement (neologismes, formation savante, emprunts). La derniere partie detaille plusieurs applications concretes: formes grammaticales, lexique de base, noms propres, feminisation des noms de metiers, abreviations et terminologie. Cet ouvrage comble un vide dans les etudes occitanes: il apporte une reponse claire et systematique a des questions normatives qui etaient jusque la bien complexes. Desormais, l'occitan beneficie d'un instrument tres concret au service de son developpement formel, comme il se doit dans une langue moderne et ambitieuse. Languages : French.
Paperback, VI+772 p., 15,6 x 23,4. ISBN 9782503524047. Visitors to the Isle de Lerins, just off Cannes, can see not only the island but also what today is a Cistercian abbey founded about 410 A.D. by St. Honoratus (350-429), hermit, monk and bishop of Arles. Scarcely nothing has changed physically, and the wild unforgiving landscape of the place explains the nature of many of the events described in this verse text, especially the terrifying massacre of the community after the death of Honoratus, which contains horrifying details very rare in mediaeval narratives. Given the importance of this story, based on nine manuscripts, it is astonishing that a complete edition has not appeared before this date. The late Ingegard Suwe Ericsson, a Swedish scholar, had undertaken an edition of the first two books, approximately the first half of the work, for her doctorate, published in 1943, in a volume which is naturally difficult to find in libraries. Thereafter, she had hoped to create a complete edition, but, sadly, her profession as a teacher, the care she gave her husband and, in later years, her own ill-health prevented her from continuing the work. In 1988, she contacted Regina af Geijerstam, emeritus professor of Spanish, University of Stockholm, to ask if she would find an editor who would finish the work, for which Suwe Ericsson had a text of the last three books. In 1989, Peter Ricketts made the journey to Ostersund, where Suwe Ericsson was living, and he decided to undertake the work himself. She died in 1991. In 2000, Cyril Hershon offered his support to bring the whole project to fruition, and the edition will shortly be ready to go to press. Not only have Association Internationale d?Etudes Occitanes and Brepols given their approval for the publication of the second half of the work, dealing with the miracles performed by Honoratus after his death, but also for the addition of the work of Ingegard Suwe Ericsson, to give the mediaeval Occitan work in its entirety in one volume. Ingegard Suwe Ericsson?s 1943 edition has been respected, apart from the occasional correction to the text. Her introduction considers the manuscript tradition, the language of the scribe in a full linguistic analysis, with examples taken from the first 4127 lines, and only minor elements, such as a resume in French of this part and a list of errors found in the venerable edition by Sardou have been omitted. Thereafter, there is a complete integration of the first and second parts: the text, accompanied by footnotes, followed by notes to the text, a selective glossary, a table of proper names, and an updated bibliography. The whole is a text which repays reading and will fill a gap in the repertoire of important mediaeval texts. Languages : French, Occitan.
Paperback, XXIX+114 p., 15,6 x 23,4. ISBN 9782503519203. The Costuma d'Agen (customary laws of the Agenais, in south-west France) compiled in Occitan at various times in the thirteenth century and preserved in the Livre Juratoire, or swearing copy (Agen, Archives departementales de Lot-et-Garonne, MS 42), is here transcribed with an English translation on facing pages. An introduction and an index are included. Appendices provide the text of five chapters 'missing' from this manuscript, along with several pertinent charters from Agen and a fuller description of the Livre juratoire by Professor M. Alison Stones, University of Pittsburgh. The manuscript contains many colored illustrations and capitals. The Costume emphasizes the power of the local city council, which often seems to override that of the local count. The laws or customs written in the book deal with many topics including jurisdiction, citizenship and military duties, crime, property, civil and criminal procedure, the local wine and salt trades, and local feudal law. Languages : English, Occitan.
Paperback, IV+652 p., 15,6 x 23,4. ISBN 9782503531052. Une bibliographie cumulative de ce qui a ete publie sur la litterature occitane, du Moyen Age a notre ere, comprenant les recherches et les publications sur tout auteur qui a ecrit en occitan, de toutes les epoques. Autant de donnees touchant a Max Rouquette (20e siecle) qu'a Arnaut Daniel (troubadour medieval). La bibliographie est organisee siecle par siecle, ensuite rubrique par rubrique. Tout au debut se trouvent les donnees qui n?entrent pas facilement dans une organisation temporelle (les anthologies qui couvrent plus d'un siecle, par exemple). Le Moyen Age est considere comme un ensemble, equivalent a un siecle. Chaque bloc temporel est organise selon ses auteurs, en ordre alphabetique. Pour le Moyen Age, les troubadours sont identifies par numero de Pillet-Carstens. Languages : French.
Paperback, LVIII+473 p., 15,6 x 23,4. ISBN 9782503519197. La premiere edition du Breviari d'amor, due a Gabriel Azais, a paru entre 1862 et 1881. En 1976, avec le but de donner au public d'abord la partie la plus interessante de cette oeuvre, la partie courtoise, contenant un debat sur la fin'amor, fut publiee. Ces 7.500 vers presentent des citations tirees des poemes des troubadours. Or, ce tome de 1976 etant epuise, il etait evident qu'il fallait donner une deuxieme edition de cette partie du Breviari a cause de son interet aupres d'un public plus large de medievistes et d'amateurs eclaires. Cette re-edition entierement refondue a partir des manuscrits contient aussi la mise a jour de la bibliographie et des notes, et donne aussi la lettre de Matfre a sa soeur. Languages : French.
Paperback, 544 p., 15,6 x 23,4. ISBN 9782503531045. Ce volume de bibliographie linguistique occitane comprend plus de 6000 titres, sans compter des centaines de comptes rendus. Le volume reprend a partir de 1987 afin de couvrir une vingtaine d'annees d'etudes de la langue medievale et moderne. Il recouvre les domaines traditionnelles de la linguistique, les manuels et grammaires, l'historique de la linguistique et la lexicologie occitanes, et aussi les etudes qui interessent la langue dans son cadre historique, les editions critiques et les etudes linguistiques de ces textes. Il temoigne de l'interet vivace porte aux etudes occitanes par tous les amis de la langue et des lettres occitanes. Languages : French.
Paperback, VIII+504 p., 15,6 x 23,4. ISBN 9782503545103. Jean de Nostredame est connu pour la publication en 1575 des Vies des plus celebres et anciens poetes provencaux que la critique medieviste a souvent critique ou denigre pour ses ?« inventions ?». Camille Chabaneau avait mis au jour des proses historiographiques qui revelaient l'ampleur d'un travail historique et litteraire, d'une pensee linguistique au coeur du XVIe siecle provencal. Par l'edition des Memoires Historiques, realisee d'apres le manuscrit original d'Aix-en-Provence, la place de Jean de Nostredame est ainsi considerablement reevaluee. Nous ne sommes pas en presence d'un ?« faussaire ?», mais d'un humaniste provencal dont l'oeuvre et l'action ont ete meconnues, negligees, et que l'on doit relire a l'aune de nos connaissances actuelles. Jean de Nostredame devient ainsi un historien et un ecrivain dont la pensee s'est effacee, et ce a cause de la situation particuliere des lettres occitanes, tombant en quelque sorte dans ?« un trou de la pensee litteraire et linguistique ?». Il n'est que justice aujourd'hui de le redecouvrir et d'apprecier ce que furent son oeuvre et sa pensee. Languages : French.
Paperback, 479 p., 17 x 25,5. ISBN 9780888449030. Languages : English.
Hardback, 510 pages., + 4 plates, figures, 17 x 25,5. ISBN 9780888449047. Languages : English.
Hardback, XX+155 p., 32 colour ill., 17 x 25,5. ISBN 9780888449054. The work provides an overview of Anglo-Saxon sculpture from its tentative beginnings in the seventh century to the Norman Conquest. The author identifies and illustrates the major influences on early English sculpture - the Christian Mediterranean, Merovingian, Carolingian and Scandinavian traditions - and shows how these combined with native English elements to create the particular aesthetic synthesis that is Anglo-Saxon carving in stone. Languages : English.
Hardback, XX+411 p., 15 x 23. ISBN 9780888449061. Edward Lye (1694-1767) was an important contributor to the advancement of our understanding of the structure of the English language, its vocabulary, and its literature. Compared with the work of more celebrated pre-nineteenth-century Anglo-Saxonists and antiquaries, Lye's was a scholarly output of less original talent and reach (the role he gave himself was to 'remove the rubbish out of the way, as an underworkman'), but in the course of editing, improving, and publishing the hitherto unpublished work of others he made genuine advances in scholarship, particularly in the areas of English lexicography and Gothic studies. The Lye correspondence - in the main a collection of scholarly letters that are also sometimes the personal communications of friends - indicates how varied his interests were, how widely he read, and how frequently he discussed texts, elucidated cruces, and established correct textual readings, often for the first time. This edition presents the 193 letters known to have passed between Edward Lye and forty-five correspondents between 1729 and Lye's death in 1767. English translations are provided for letters written in Latin, Greek, and Swedish, as well as for words and passages in other languages (e.g. Old English, Gothic, Hebrew) discussed in the correspondence. The introduction provides a biography of Lye and a detailed examination of his major scholarly accomplishments: the edition of Franciscus Junius's Etymologicum Anglicanum, published in 1743 with extensive improvements and additions by Lye; the publication in 1750 of Eric Benzelius's edition and Latin translation of the Gothic Gospels (Sacrorum evangeliorum versio Gothica), together with Lye's own contribution of corrections and notes, preface, and a Gothic grammar; the Dictionarium Saxonico- et Gothico-Latinum, completed posthumously by Owen Manning and published in 1772; and an unfinished translation into Latin of the Old English poems of the Caedmon manuscript (Oxford, Bodl. MS. 11). Supporting materials, including biographical records and documents relevant to the edited letters and Lye's publications, are presented in several appendices; there are also biographical notes on Lye's correspondents and a bibliography of manuscripts and printed works. Like A Chorus of Grammars, edited by Richard L. Harris and published in the same series, this book will be of value to all those interested in Germanic philology, the history of Old English and Gothic scholarship, and the work of the sixteenth- to the eighteenth-century antiquaries in England and northern Europe. Languages : English.
Paperback, XII+138 p., 15 x 23. ISBN 9780888449078. The five essays in this volume discuss texts either from the Old English period or from the transitional twelfth century, and each explores, from differing perspectives, how today?s readers make sense of, or construct meanings from, early English documents. Languages : English, Old English.
Paperback, approx. XII+258 p., 15 x 23. ISBN 9780888449085. The Antwerp-London Glossaries are eleventh-century descendents of the earliest school text in the English language. In their earliest form they played a central role at the seventh-century school of Canterbury; they contributed material to the fundamental texts, dated to the 600s, known as the Leiden Glossary and the Epinal-Erfurt glossary. A varied collection with five distinguishable parts, the glossaries have at their heart a late Latin encyclopedia, the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville. The longest glossary lists thousands of Isidorian headwords and gives definitions in Old English. A second long glossary with two alphabetical components has some material that is even older. In addition, two small lists share some material with these longer texts. The glossaries are an important witness to the composing of the first encyclopedic work in our language. In shaping basic school texts, this encyclopedia became a crucial medium for translating Classical learning to an Insular environment. It put its stamp as well on the production of original works by the first generation of English writers, including Aldhelm, a Canterbury alumnus. The Antwerp-London Glossaries are perhaps the last long Old English text never to have been properly edited. This edition is accompanied by textual apparatuses and complete English and Latin indexes. A second volume will include introduction, translation, and explanatory notes. Languages : English, Old English, Latin.
Paperback, 240 p., 16 x 25. ISBN 9782503505763. This study presents Walter of Chatillon?s Alexandreis and his exploration of the problems of interpretating not only languages, but also the texts, philosophies, religions and literatures of the past. Walter of Chatillon, the twelfth-century Latin poet now famed for his satirical lyrics, acquired international renown in the Middle Ages for his epic on Alexander the Great, the Alexandreis. This work did for the Middle Ages what Vergil had done for the Romans, proving the ability of the moderni to rival the ancients in learning and the arts. The Alexandreis immediately joined the Aeneid in the medieval paideia and was read in schoolrooms throughout Europe in the thirteenth and fourteenth centuries. The Alexandreis enters into the twelfth-century debate about education. The intellectual world was rapidly changing, as the schools became specialized and professionalized, threatening the hitherto secure position of the liberal arts and Latin literature in the educational curriculum. At the same time, translations from Arabic and Greek, not only of the works of Aristotle, but also of Arabic philosophers, had begun to alter the concerns and methodologies of Western scholars. Theologians increasingly used Hebrew commentaries in their studies of the Hebrew Scriptures. The awareness of the intellectual achievements both of the ancients and of highly-civilized non-Christian contemporary cultures had reached a new peak. Twelfth-century intellectuals were presented with the challenge of assimilating the flow of new works and ideas into western historiography and the Latin world-view. Walter's exploration of the problems of interpretating not only languages, but also the texts, philosophies, religions and literatures of the past, is the subject of this study. Maura K. Lafferty studied Classics at Wellesley College, The University of North Carolina and has received her PhD in Medieval Studies at the University of Toronto. She has written on Walter of Chatillon's Alexandreis and lyrical poems, and also on medieval manuscripts of the classical epic. Languages : English, Latin.
Paperback, 240 p., 16 x 25. ISBN 214. This study will serve as a finding guide for scholars interested in the medieval and renaissance texts related to the study of Ovid. Scholars have recently recognized the importance of the medieval and renaissance school tradition on classical authors for our understanding of literary theory and reading practices from the late antique period to 1600. Yet much of the primary evidence, necessary to such an investigation lies hidden in the manuscript repositories of Europe and North America. The Incipitarium Ovidianum will serve as a finding guide for scholars interested in the medieval and renaissance tradition of accessus, biographies, commentaries and Summae memoriales on the poetic corpus of Ovid. The Incipitarium lists alphabetically by their opening words all of the extant texts related to the study of Ovid from 400 to 1600. All known manuscript witnesses to the text as well as the early incunabula, modern printed editions and studies are provided. An appendix lists manuscripts which transmit glosses to the individual works. And a comprehensive bibliography of modern studies related to the study of Ovid in the Middle Ages is included in the introduction to the Incipitarium itself. The Incipitarium surveys 483 texts in manuscript and/or printed form and will be an essential research tool for all scholars working in the field of the classical tradition. Frank T. Coulson is Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University, Columbus, Ohio and has published extensively on the tradition of Ovid in the Middle Ages. Bruno Roy is associate Professor of the University of Montreal. Languages : English, Latin.
