Ovid in the Middle Ages (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781107002050)

Ovid is perhaps the most important surviving Latin poet and his work has influenced writers throughout the world. This volume presents a groundbreaking series of essays on his reception across the Middle Ages. The collection includes contributions from distinguished Ovidians as well as leading specialists in medieval Latin and vernacular literature, clerical and extra-clerical culture and medieval art, and addresses questions of manuscript and textual transmission, translation, adaptation and imitation. It also explores the intersecting cultural contexts of the schools (monastic and secular), courts and literate lay households. It elaborates the scale and scope of the enthusiasm for Ovid in medieval Europe, following readers of the canon from the Carolingian monasteries to the early schools of the le de France and on into clerical and curial milieux in Italy, Spain, the British Isles and even the Byzantine Empire.

Author: James G. Clark
ISBN-10: 1107002052
ISBN-13: 9781107002050
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 07/28/2011
Pages: 384
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.10h x 6.00w x 0.90d