The Prudentiuss Epos A Bridge Between Classicism And Latin Middle Ages
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| Author | : Elisa Sicuri |
| Publisher | : GRIN Verlag |
| Total Pages | : 26 |
| Release | : 2017-05-29 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 3668455104 |
Essay from the year 2017 in the subject Latin philology - Medivial and Modern Latin, , language: English, abstract: This essay deals with the Prudentius’s Epos and tries to link Classicism and Latin Middle Ages. In the imperial era the epic genre had undergone important modifications to its origins and developed radically with the coming of Christianity. The dissemination of Christ’s message covered all areas of culture and had deep repercussions on literary writing. The idea that literary production should be put to the service of the spread of faith went ahead and this ended up altering the formal features of new works. Unlike the Greek and Latin literature, that generally had an elitist destination, the Christian writers were also aimed to the humblest sections of population until then excluded from the literary communication. The novelties of the new Christian literature (the desire to speak to everyone, the approach to everyday life, the attribution of new importance to simple things) ended up scrapping the traditional set of literary genres, including the epic genre. Almost all literary genres used in Greek and Latin literature were reused by Christian writers, but modified for new needs and new contents.
| Author | : Jaś Elsner |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 545 |
| Release | : 2016-11-18 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 0190629630 |
The aesthetic changes in late Roman literature speak to the foundations of modern Western culture. The dawn of a modern way of being in the world, one that most Europeans and Americans would recognize as closely ancestral to their own, is to be found not in the distant antiquity of Greece nor in the golden age of a Roman empire that spanned the Mediterranean, but more fundamentally in the original and problematic fusion of Greco-Roman culture with a new and unexpected foreign element-the arrival of Christianity as an exclusive state religion. For a host of reasons, traditionalist scholarship has failed to give a full and positive account of the formal, aesthetic and religious transformations of ancient poetics in Late Antiquity. The Poetics of Late Latin Literature attempts to capture the excitement and vibrancy of the living ancient tradition reinventing itself in a new context in the hands of a series of great Latin writers mainly from the fourth and fifth centuries AD. A series of the most distinguished expert voices in later Latin poetry as well as some of the most exciting new scholars have been specially commissioned to write new papers for this volume.
| Author | : George Stade |
| Publisher | : Macmillan Reference USA |
| Total Pages | : 504 |
| Release | : 1983 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
This reference work is comprised of two volumes treating the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, three volumes on the Romantics, and four volumes dealing with twentieth century authors. Scholar's new to literary history and criticism should find the balanced, well written essays on included authors a solid introduction.
| Author | : Dermot Moran |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 356 |
| Release | : 2004-08-19 |
| Genre | : Philosophy |
| ISBN | : 9780521892827 |
This work is a substantial contribution to the history of philosophy. Its subject, the ninth-century philosopher John Scottus Eriugena, developed a form of idealism that owed as much to the Greek Neoplatonic tradition as to the Latin fathers and anticipated the priority of the subject in its modern, most radical statement: German idealism. Moran has written the most comprehensive study yet of Eriugena's philosophy, tracing the sources of his thinking and analyzing his most important text, the Periphyseon. This volume will be of special interest to historians of mediaeval philosophy, history, and theology.
| Author | : Jürgen Leonhardt |
| Publisher | : Harvard University Press |
| Total Pages | : 349 |
| Release | : 2013-11-12 |
| Genre | : Language Arts & Disciplines |
| ISBN | : 0674726278 |
The mother tongue of the Roman Empire and the lingua franca of the West for centuries afterward, Latin survives today primarily in classrooms and texts. Yet this "dead language" is unique in the influence it has exerted across centuries and continents. Juergen Leonhardt offers the story of the first "world language," from antiquity to the present.
| Author | : J. N. Adams |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 1053 |
| Release | : 2016-09-26 |
| Genre | : Foreign Language Study |
| ISBN | : 1316673251 |
This book contains over fifty passages of Latin from 200 BC to AD 900, each with translation and linguistic commentary. It is not intended as an elementary reader (though suitable for university courses), but as an illustrative history of Latin covering more than a millennium, with almost every century represented. Conventional histories cite constructions out of context, whereas this work gives a sense of the period, genre, stylistic aims and idiosyncrasies of specific passages. 'Informal' texts, particularly if they portray talk, reflect linguistic variety and change better than texts adhering to classicising norms. Some of the texts are recent discoveries or little known. Writing tablets are well represented, as are literary and technical texts down to the early medieval period, when striking changes appear. The commentaries identify innovations, discontinuities and phenomena of long duration. Readers will learn much about the diversity and development of Latin.
| Author | : J. Stephen Russell |
| Publisher | : |
| Total Pages | : 262 |
| Release | : 1988 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : |
| Author | : Ian Fielding |
| Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
| Total Pages | : 271 |
| Release | : 2017-10-19 |
| Genre | : History |
| ISBN | : 1107178436 |
This book highlights Ovid's influence on important later Latin authors writing from the fourth to the sixth centuries in Europe and Africa.
| Author | : David Hiley |
| Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
| Total Pages | : 764 |
| Release | : 1995 |
| Genre | : Music |
| ISBN | : 9780198165729 |
Plainchant is the oldest substantial body of music that has been preserved in any shape or form. It was first written down in Western Europe in the eighth to ninth centuries. Many thousands of chants have been sung at different times or places in a multitude of forms and styles, responding to the differing needs of the church through the ages. This book provides a clear and concise introduction, designed both for those to whom the subject is new and those who require a reference work for advanced study. It begins with an explanation of the liturgies that plainchant was designed to serve. It describes all the chief genres of chant, different types of liturgical book, and plainchant notations. After an exposition of early medieval theoretical writing on plainchant, Hiley provides a historical survey that traces the constantly changing nature of the repertory. He also discusses important musicians and centers of composition. Copiously illustrated with over 200 musical examples, this book highlights the diversity of practice and richness of the chant repertory in the Middle Ages. It will be an indispensable introduction and reference source on this important music for many years to come.
| Author | : John O. Ward |
| Publisher | : BRILL |
| Total Pages | : 724 |
| Release | : 2018-12-24 |
| Genre | : Literary Criticism |
| ISBN | : 9004368078 |
Classical Rhetoric in the Middle Ages: The Medieval Rhetors and Their Art 400-1300, with Manuscript Survey to 1500 CE is a completely updated version of John Ward’s much-used doctoral thesis of 1972, and is the definitive treatment of this fundamental aspect of medieval and rhetorical culture. It is commonly believed that medieval writers were interested only in Christian truth, not in Graeco-Roman methods of ‘persuasion’ to whatever viewpoint the speaker / writer wanted. Dr Ward, however, investigates the content of well over one thousand medieval manuscripts and shows that medieval writers were fully conscious of and much dependent upon Graeco-Roman rhetorical methods of persuasion. The volume then demonstrates why and to what purpose this use of classical rhetoric took place.
