Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts

Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts
Author: William Harris Stahl
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1971
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780231096362

Part of a detailed compendium of late-Roman learning in each of the seven liberal arts, set within an amusing mythological-allegorical tale of courtship and marriage among the pagan gods. The text provides an understanding of medieval allegory and the components of a medieval education.

Carolingian Scholarship and Martianus Capella

Carolingian Scholarship and Martianus Capella
Author: Mariken Teeuwen
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Carolingians
ISBN: 9782503531786

It is well known that the Carolingian royal family inspired and promoted a cultural revival of great consequence. The courts of Charlemagne and his successors welcomed lively gatherings of scholars who avidly pursued knowledge and learning, while education became a booming business in the great monastic centres, which were under the protection of the royal family. Scholarly emphasis was placed upon Latin language, religion, and liturgy, but the works of classical and late antique authors were collected, studied, and commented upon with similar zeal. A text that was read by ninth-century scholars with an almost unrivalled enthusiasm is Martianus Capella's De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, a late antique encyclopedia of the seven liberal arts embedded within a mythological framework of the marriage between Philology (learning) and Mercury (eloquence). Several ninth-century commentary traditions testify to the work's popularity in the ninth century. Martianus's text treats a wide range of secular subjects, including mythology, the movement of the heavens, numerical speculation, and the ancient tradition on each of the seven liberal arts. De nuptiis and its exceptionally rich commentary traditions provide the focus of this volume, which addresses both the textual material found in the margins of De nuptiis manuscripts, and the broader intellectual context of commentary traditions on ancient secular texts in the early medieval world.

Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts

Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts
Author: William Harris Stahl
Publisher:
Total Pages: 296
Release: 1971
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN:

A translation of the fifth-century Roman's summary of the science that was to remain dominant in Europe until the 12th century. Reprinted from the 1971 edition as part of the new series. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

Iter Italicum

Iter Italicum
Author: Paul Oskar Kristeller
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 594
Release: 1963
Genre: History
ISBN: 9789004105928

A cumulative index to the "Iter Italicum" volumes 1-6, encompassing the indexes previously published to the individual volumes. Reorganised for ease of use, this invaluable aid to users of Kristeller's monumental work will greatly facilitate access to the huge amount of information found here.

Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism

Images of the Feminine in Gnosticism
Author: Karen L. King
Publisher: A&C Black
Total Pages: 488
Release: 2000-09-01
Genre: Religion
ISBN: 9781563383311

Essays on the feminine face of God in Gnostic philsophy and theology are collected in a fascinating introduction to this early and often persecuted strand of Christian thought. Original.

Martianus Capella in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance

Martianus Capella in the Late Middle Ages and Renaissance
Author: Katie Reid
Publisher: BRILL
Total Pages: 241
Release: 2023-10-09
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9004685324

In this book, Katie Reid argues that the fifth-century author Martianus Capella was a significant influence in the late Middle Ages and Renaissance. His poetic encyclopaedia, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury, was a source for writing on the liberal arts, allegory and classical mythology from 1300 to 1650. In fact, writers of this period had much more in common with Martianus Capella than they did with older ancients like Homer and Virgil. As such, we must reshape our understanding of late medieval and Renaissance encounters with the classical world by exploring their roots in Late Antiquity.

On Marriage and Concupiscence

On Marriage and Concupiscence
Author: Saint Augustine
Publisher: CreateSpace
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2015-06-08
Genre:
ISBN: 9781514266588

Augustine, the man with upturned eye, with pen in the left hand, and a burning heart in the right (as he is usually represented), is a philosophical and theological genius of the first order, towering like a pyramid above his age, and looking down commandingly upon succeeding centuries. He had a mind uncommonly fertile and deep, bold and soaring; and with it, what is better, a heart full of Christian love and humility. He stands of right by the side of the greatest philosophers of antiquity and of modern times. We meet him alike on the broad highways and the narrow footpaths, on the giddy Alpine heights and in the awful depths of speculation, wherever philosophical thinkers before him or after him have trod. As a theologian he is facile princeps, at least surpassed by no church father, schoolman, or reformer. With royal munificence he scattered ideas in passing, which have set in mighty motion other lands and later times. He combined the creative power of Tertullian with the churchly spirit of Cyprian, the speculative intellect of the Greek church with the practical tact of the Latin. He was a Christian philosopher and a philosophical theologian to the full.

Kiss My Relics

Kiss My Relics
Author: David Rollo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2011-09-09
Genre: History
ISBN: 0226724603

Conservative thinkers of the early Middle Ages conceived of sensual gratification as a demonic snare contrived to debase the higher faculties of humanity, and they identified pagan writing as one of the primary conduits of decadence. Two aspects of the pagan legacy were treated with particular distrust: fiction, conceived as a devious contrivance that falsified God’s order; and rhetorical opulence, viewed as a vain extravagance. Writing that offered these dangerous allurements came to be known as “hermaphroditic” and, by the later Middle Ages, to be equated with homosexuality. At the margins of these developments, however, some authors began to validate fiction as a medium for truth and a source of legitimate enjoyment, while others began to explore and defend the pleasures of opulent rhetoric. Here David Rollo examines two such texts—Alain de Lille’s De planctu Naturae and Guillaume de Lorris and Jean de Meun’s Roman de la Rose—arguing that their authors, in acknowledging the liberating potential of their irregular written orientations, brought about a nuanced reappraisal of homosexuality. Rollo concludes with a consideration of the influence of the latter on Chaucer’s Pardoner’s Prologue and Tale.