Ovid in the Middle Ages / edited by James G. Clark, Frank T. Coulson, Kathryn L. McKinley.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Clark, James G.

Coulson, Frank T.

McKinley, Kathryn L.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Appreciation--Europe.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Influence.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--In literature.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D.

Literature, Medieval--Roman influences.

Literature, Medieval.

Criticism and interpretation.

History.

Europe.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 2011.

Summary:

"Ovid is perhaps the most important surviving Latin poet and his work has influenced writers throughout Europe to the present day. This volume presents a groundbreaking series of essays on his reception across Europe in the Middle Ages. The collection includes contributions from distinguished Ovidians as well as leading specialists in medieval Latin and vernacular literature, clerical and extra-clerical culture and medieval art, and addresses questions of manuscript and textual transmission, translation, adaptation and imitation. It also explores the intersecting cultural contexts of the schools (monastic and secular), courts and the literate lay households. It elaborates the scale and scope of the enthusiasm for Ovid in medieval Europe, following readers of the canon from the Carolingian monasteries to the early schools of the Île de France and on into clerical and curial milieus in Italy, Spain, the British Isles and even the Byzantine Empire"--Provided by publisher.

"Medieval Europe was shaped not in separation from antiquity -- as the polemics of the Renaissance alleged -- but in the light of its enduring presence. The cultural, social, economic and political fabric of Christendom was woven with the patterns of the classical world. The people of the West acknowledged, or aspired to, the status of the Latins, they submitted to the authority of competing forms -- princely and pontifical -- of an ancient imperium and they set their confessional, cultural and political boundaries on the same eastern frontier as their Roman forebears. Perhaps above all they appropriated the discourse of the ancients and the textual culture(s), learned, literary, public and personal, that had sustained it for so long"--Provided by publisher.

Contents:

1 Introduction / James G. Clark Clark, James G. 1

2 Ovid's metempsychosis: The Greek East / Elizabeth Fisher Fisher, Elizabeth 26

3 Ovid's Metamorphoses in the school tradition of France, 1180-1400: Texts, manuscript traditions, manuscript settings / Frank T. Coulson Coulson, Frank T. 48

4 Recasting the Metamorphoses in fourteenth-century France: The challenges of the Ovide moralise / Ana Patret Patret, Ana 83

5 Gender and desire in medieval French translations of Ovid's amatory works / Marilynn Desmond Desmond, Marilynn 108

6 Ovid in medieval Italy / Robert Black Black, Robert 123

7 Dante's Ovids / Warren Ginsberg Ginsberg, Warren 143

8 Ovid from the pulpit / Siegfried Wenzel Wenzel, Siegfried 160

9 Ovid in the monasteries: The evidence from late medieval England / James G. Clark Clark, James G. 177

10 Gower and Chaucer: Readings of Ovid in late medieval England / Kathryn L McKinley McKinley, Kathryn L 197

12 Ovid in medieval Spain / Vicente Cristobal Cristobal, Vicente 231

13 A survey of imagery in medieval manuscripts of Ovid's Metamorphoses and related commentaries / Carlo Lord Lord, Carlo 257

14 Shades of Ovid: Pseudo- (and para-) Ovidiana in the Middle Ages / Ralph J. Hexter Hexter, Ralph J. 284

Doing Justice in Explaining the Cause of Juristic Disagreement Al-Insaffi Bayan Sabab al-Ikhtilaf

Shah Wali Allah's Preface 3

Chapter 1 The Causes for the Disagreement of the Companions and Followers Concerning Positive Law (al-Furu') 5

Chapter 2 The Causes for Disagreement among the Legal Schools of the Jurists 16

Chapter 3 Causes for the Disagreement Between the People of the Hadith and Scholars Who Exercise Personal Opinion 26

Chapter 4 Account of Developments before the Fourth Century 44

Chapter 5 Account of Developments which Took Place After the Fourth Century 60

Index of Qur'an and Hadith Citations 73

Chaplet Regarding the Rules of ljtihdd and Taqlid 'Iqd al-JXd ftAhkam al-Ijtihad wa-l-Taqlid

Shah Wall Allah's Preface 77

Chapter 1 The true nature of Ijtihad and its Prerequisites and Types 78

Chapter 2 Juristic Disagreement among Mujtahids 82

Chapter 3 Reinforcing staying within the four legal schools and severe stricture against abandoning them or going outside of them 96

Chapter 4 Disagreements regarding following the four legal schools and the extent to which this is obligatory 102

Chapter 5 Maintaining Balance in Taqlid 127

Index of Qur'an and Hadith Citations 136.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

9781107002050

1107002052

OCLC:

671709908

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