Speculum Stultorum
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Author | : Jill Mann |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 646 |
Release | : 2023-06-15 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 0192857711 |
An edition and English translation of the Speculum Stultorum (The Mirror for Fools), a long Latin beast epic written near the end of the twelfth century by a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury. This was one of the most popular works of the Middle Ages, a favourite of Chaucer, Gower, and Henryson, and was copied for over three centuries, with a circulation extending as far as eastern Europe. It is not only a milestone in the history of medieval beast epic, but a rich source of information about contemporary life and events at Canterbury. The work is dedicated to William Longchamp, who was Richard I's chancellor, and the significance of this fact is shown. This is a highly entertaining narrative about a donkey who longs to have a longer tail and journeys to Salerno to buy some (imaginary) medicines which will provide it. When his medicines are destroyed in an accident, he decides to become learned instead, and goes off to study at the university of Paris for seven years, but can still say only 'heehaw'. Interwoven into this simple narrative are other stories and long rhetorical set-pieces which satirise the distorted values of contemporary religious life or the corruption of the papal curia, and describe the qualities of an ideal bishop (which the donkey hopes to become).
Author | : Nigellus Wireker |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 1959 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Jan M. Ziolkowski |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 336 |
Release | : 2021-12-06 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 9004473548 |
Nigel of Canterbury (often referred to as Nigel Wireker or Nigel de Longchamps) was a monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, during the troubled decades after the martyrdom of Thomas Becket. Nigel is widely known for his Speculum Stultorum, an amusing satiric poem nearly four thousand lines in length, and for a caustic treatise that has been given the title Tractatus contra Curiales et Officiales Clericos. Although his seventeen Miracula Sancte Dei genitricis uirginis Marie, uersifice have been edited recently, not all his other works have fared well. The Passion of St. Lawrence, Epigrams and Marginal Poems brings into print for the first time Nigel's remaining poems. From British Library Cotton Vespasian D xix are edited his account in rhymed hexameters of the passion of Saint Lawrence and thirteen epigrams; from Cambridge, Trinity College B. 15. 5 (342) are published newly discovered marginal poems that shed light upon his techniques of poetic composition. The volume opens with a general introduction on Nigel's writings, his life at Canterbury, and notable features of his verse. Each of the three texts or sets of texts is preceded by a brief introduction and followed by a detailed commentary, which glosses difficult words and constructions and which points the reader to literary sources and analogues. The volume concludes with indexes of names and of notable words. This new edition deepens our perspective upon Nigel of Canterbury and upon intellectual life in Canterbury after the death of Becket.
Author | : Adele J. Haft |
Publisher | : University of Michigan Press |
Total Pages | : 204 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780472086214 |
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Author | : George Watson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 1322 |
Release | : 1974-08-29 |
Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
ISBN | : 9780521200042 |
More than fifty specialists have contributed to this new edition of volume 1 of The Cambridge Bibliography of English Literature. The design of the original work has established itself so firmly as a workable solution to the immense problems of analysis, articulation and coordination that it has been retained in all its essentials for the new edition. The task of the new contributors has been to revise and integrate the lists of 1940 and 1957, to add materials of the following decade, to correct and refine the bibliographical details already available, and to re-shape the whole according to a new series of conventions devised to give greater clarity and consistency to the entries.
Author | : NIGELLUS Wireker |
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Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1960 |
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Author | : Nigellus Ca 1130-Ca 1200 Wireker |
Publisher | : Hassell Street Press |
Total Pages | : 188 |
Release | : 2021-09-09 |
Genre | : |
ISBN | : 9781014605344 |
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Author | : Nigellus (de Longo Campo) |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 191 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Nigel de Longchamps |
Publisher | : Forgotten Books |
Total Pages | : 214 |
Release | : 2018-09-13 |
Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
ISBN | : 9781390319170 |
Excerpt from Nigel De Longchamps Speculum Stultorum Our labors were greatly facilitated by the generous assist ance and advice of Professor André Boutemy, Professor Bruce Dickins, Professor Wayland Hand, Reverend Professor David Knowles, Professor Alfred Longueil, Professor Roger Mynors, Professor Blake Nevius, Professor John Ross, Professor Otto Skutsch, Dr. F. W. Brittain, Dr. F. J. E. Raby, Mr. W. B. Sedg w1ck, and Mr. William Urry. To them as well as to all the keep ers of manuscripts and rare books who have kindly given access to their collections or provided photostats and transcripts, we wish to express our warm gratitude. Finally, I am pleased to acknowledge my personal indebtedness to the United States Educational Commission and to President R. G. Sproul of the University of California for the award of fellowships to aid in the pursuance and completion of these researches. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
Author | : Gert Melville |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 354 |
Release | : 2020 |
Genre | : Monasticism and religious orders |
ISBN | : 3643963637 |
For over a thousand years, monks, nuns, canons, friars, and others under religious vows stood at the pinnacle of Western European society. For their ascetic sacrifices, their learning, piety, and expertise, they were accorded positions of power and influence, and a wide range of legal, financial and social privileges. As such they present an important opportunity to consider the nature and dynamics of an "elite" in medieval culture. Using medieval religious life as their interpretive lens, the essays of this volume seek to uncover the essential markers of elite status. They explore how those under vows claimed and manifested elite status in complex spiritual, temporal, and social combinations. They explore the workings of elite status from day to day, across region and locale - who earned recognition and how, whether through specific achievements or the deployment of specific capacities; who recognized, conferred, or helped maintain elite status, how and why; how elite status could be redefined, contested or rejected. The essays also seek to understand how medieval European religious elites compared to those found in other cultures and settings, from Syria and South Asia to the early modern transatlantic world.