The Vulgate Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses
The Vulgate Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses

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Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2015-11-12

Total Pages: 240

ISBN-13: 158044203X

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Composed around 1250 by an unknown author in the region of Orleans, the Vulgate Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses is the most widely disseminated and reproduced medieval work on Ovid's epic compendium of classical mythology and materialist philosophy. This commentary both preserves the rich store of twelfth-century glossing on the Metamorphoses and incorporates new material of literary interest, while the marginal glosses in many respects reflect the scholar interests of an early thirteenth-century schoolmaster. The Vulgate Commentary is always transmitted as a series of interlinear and marginal glosses surrounding the text manuscript, whereas other earlier commentaries were independent of a full text of the poem. The Vulgate Commentary exercised a wide-ranging influence on the understanding and presentation of Ovid's Metamorphoses in the High Middle Ages and Renaissance, and the commentary exists in both French and Italian manuscripts.

Ovid in the Middle Ages
Ovid in the Middle Ages

Author: James G. Clark

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2011-07-28

Total Pages: 385

ISBN-13: 1107002052

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This book explores the extraordinary influence of Ovid upon the culture - learned, literary, artistic and popular - of medieval Europe.

A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 1, General Introduction and Books 1-6
A Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: Volume 1, General Introduction and Books 1-6

Author: Alessandro Barchiesi

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2023-12-31

Total Pages: 786

ISBN-13: 1009197606

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Comprising fifteen books and over two hundred and fifty myths, Ovid's Metamorphoses is one of the longest extant Latin poems from the ancient world and one of the most influential works in Western culture. It is an epic on desire and transgression that became a gateway to the entire world of pagan mythology and visual imagination. This, the first complete commentary in English, covers all aspects of the text – from textual interpretation to poetics, imagination, and ideology – and will be useful as a teaching aid and an orientation for those who are interested in the text and its reception. Historically, the poem's audience includes readers interested in opera and ballet, psychology and sexuality, myth and painting, feminism and posthumanism, vegetarianism and metempsychosis (to name just a few outside the area of Classical Studies).

Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid
Milton and the Metamorphosis of Ovid

Author: Maggie Kilgour

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2012-02-02

Total Pages: 398

ISBN-13: 0199589437

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Contributing to our understanding of Ovid, Milton, and more broadly the transmission and transformation of classical traditions, this book examines the ways in which Milton drew on Ovid's oeuvre, and argues that Ovid's revision of the past gave Renaissance writers a model for their own transformation of classical works.

Reading the Ovidian Heroine
Reading the Ovidian Heroine

Author: Kathryn McKinley

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2017-09-18

Total Pages: 223

ISBN-13: 9004351019

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This study investigates the reception of Ovid's heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written between 1100 and 1618. The Ovidian heroine offers a telling window onto medieval and early modern clerical constructions of gender and selfhood. In the context of classical representations of the feminine, the book examines Ovid's engagement of the heroine to explore problems of intentionality. The second part of the study presents commentaries by such clerics as William of Orléans, the "Vulgate" commentator, Thomas Walsingham, and Raphael Regius, illustrating the reception of the Ovidian heroine in medieval France and England as well as in Renaissance Italy and Germany. The works analyzed here show that clerical readings of the feminine in Ovid reflect greater heterogeneity than is commonly alleged. Both moralizing summaries and Latin editions used as schooltexts are discussed.

Book XIII of Ovid’s ›Metamorphoses‹
Book XIII of Ovid’s ›Metamorphoses‹

Author: Luis Rivero García

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2018-11-05

Total Pages: 540

ISBN-13: 3110612496

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The text of Ovid's Metamorphoses is not as indisputably established as one might think. Many passages are still obscure or plainly corrupt. 550 manuscripts, 500 editions and reprints, as well as countless critical notes and works must be taken into account when trying to establish the most reliable text for new generations of readers. This volume provides a detailed line-by-line analysis of Book XIII and offers thereby an indispensable starting point for a new critical edition not only of this but also of other parts of the poem.

Medieval Mythography, Volume Two
Medieval Mythography, Volume Two

Author: Jane Chance

Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers

Published: 2019-11-15

Total Pages: 545

ISBN-13: 1532688946

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The second volume in Jane Chance’s study of the history of medieval mythography from the fifth through fifteenth centuries focuses on the time period in Western Europe between the School of Chartres and the papal court at Avignon. This examination of historical and philosophical developments in the story of mythography reflects the ever-increasing importance of the subjectivity of the commentator. Through her vast and wide-ranging familiarity with hitherto seldom studied primary texts spanning nearly one thousand years, Chance provides a guide to the assimilation of classical myth into the Christian Middle Ages. Rich in insight and example, dense in documentation, and compelling in its interpretations, Medieval Mythography is an important tool for scholars of the classical tradition and for medievalists working in any language.

John of Garland, 'Integumenta Ovidii'
John of Garland, 'Integumenta Ovidii'

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Publisher: Medieval Institute Publications

Published: 2022-10-31

Total Pages: 222

ISBN-13: 1580445284

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The renowned scholar-poet John of Garland wrote the Integumenta Ovidii ("Allegories on Ovid") in early thirteenth-century Paris at a time of renewed interest in Classical Latin literature. In this short poem, John offers a series of dense, highly allusive allegories on various Greek and Roman myths in Ovid's Metamorphoses. The text is here edited and translated for the first time in 90 years, drawing on the evidence of over two dozen manuscripts. Comprehensive explanatory notes help readers to understand John's condensed allegories in their medieval context. Textual notes discuss the various difficulties in the transmitted text of the poem, and offer several improvements on the texts of the older editions.

Medieval Textual Cultures
Medieval Textual Cultures

Author: Faith Wallis

Publisher: Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG

Published: 2016-08-22

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 3110465701

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Understanding how medieval textual cultures engaged with the heritage of antiquity (transmission and translation) depends on recognizing that reception is a creative cultural act (transformation). These essays focus on the people, societies and institutions who were doing the transmitting, translating, and transforming -- the "agents". The subject matter ranges from medicine to astronomy, literature to magic, while the cultural context encompasses Islamic and Jewish societies, as well as Byzantium and the Latin West. What unites these studies is their attention to the methodological and conceptual challenges of thinking about agency. Not every agent acted with an agenda, and agenda were sometimes driven by immediate needs or religious considerations that while compelling to the actors, are more opaque to us. What does it mean to say that a text becomes “available” for transmission or translation? And why do some texts, once transmitted, fail to thrive in their new milieu? This collection thus points toward a more sophisticated “ecology” of transmission, where not only individuals and teams of individuals, but also social spaces and local cultures, act as the agents of cultural creativity.