Ovid in the Middle Ages

Author:   James G. Clark (University of Bristol) ,  Frank T. Coulson (Ohio State University) ,  Kathryn L. McKinley
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
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Pages:   386
Publication Date:   11 June 2015
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Author:   James G. Clark (University of Bristol) ,  Frank T. Coulson (Ohio State University) ,  Kathryn L. McKinley
Publisher:   Cambridge University Press
Imprint:   Cambridge University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.510kg
ISBN:  

9781107526624


ISBN 10:   1107526620
Pages:   386
Publication Date:   11 June 2015
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
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1. Introduction James G. Clark; 2. Ovid's metempsychosis: the Greek East Elizabeth Fisher; 3. Ovid's Metamorphoses in the school tradition of France, 1180–1400: texts, manuscript traditions, manuscript settings Frank T. Coulson; 4. Recasting the Metamorphoses in fourteenth-century France: the challenges of the Ovide Moralisé Ana Pairet; 5. Gender and desire in medieval French translations of Ovid's amatory works Marilynn Desmond; 6. Ovid in medieval Italy Robert Black; 7. Dante's Ovids Warren Ginsberg; 8. Ovid from the pulpit Siegfried Wenzel; 9. Ovid in the monasteries: the evidence from late medieval England James G. Clark; 10. Gower and Chaucer: readings of Ovid in late medieval England Kathryn L. McKinley; 11. Ovid in medieval Spain Vicente Cristóbal; 12. A survey of imagery in medieval manuscripts of Ovid's Metamorphoses and related commentaries Carla Lord; 13. Shades of Ovid: the pseudo-Ovidiana in the Middle Ages Ralph J. Hexter; Appendix: annotated list of selected Ovid manuscripts.

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James G. Clark is Reader in History at the University of Bristol. He has published widely on the learned culture of later medieval England. His publications include A Monastic Renaissance at St Albans: Thomas Walsingham and his Circle, c.1350–c.1440 (2004). His research on the reception of the classics has been supported by fellowships from the British Academy and the Leverhulme Trust. He is a Fellow of the Royal Historical Society. Frank T. Coulson is a Professor in the Department of Greek and Latin at the Ohio State University where he serves as Director of Palaeography in the Center for Epigraphical and Palaeographical Studies. He has published extensively on the medieval and Renaissance manuscript tradition of Ovid. His books include The Vulgate Commentary on Ovid's Metamorphoses: The Creation Myth and the Story of Orpheus (1991) and (with Bruno Roy) Incipitarium Ovidianum: A Finding Guide for Texts in Latin Related to the Medieval School Tradition on Ovid (2000). Kathryn McKinley is Associate Professor of English at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County. She has published several studies on Ovid in medieval England (both in manuscript contexts and vernacular poetry). Her book, Reading the Ovidian Heroine: Metamorphoses Commentaries 1100–1618 (2001) is the first extended study of clerical readings of gender in medieval and early modern commentaries on Ovid. She is currently at work on a book-length study of Chaucer's House of Fame.

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