Poetry and exegesis in premodern Latin Christianity : the encounter between classical and Christian strategies of interpretation / edited by Willemien Otten & Karla Pollmann.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Otten, Willemien.

Pollmann, Karla.

Series:

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 87.

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 87

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, Latin.

Christian literature, Early--Latin authors--History and criticism.

Christian literature, Early.

Christian poetry, Early--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, Early.

Christianity and literature--Rome.

Christianity and literature.

Christianity and culture--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Christianity and culture.

Bible--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History--Early church, ca. 30-600.

Bible.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (378 pages)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume investigates various exegetical possibilities in Christian Latin poetry during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In the Latin West poetry was mainly associated with the powerful pagan tradition of writers like Vergil and Ovid, and by many poetry was considered to tell lies and provide mere entertainment potentially corrupting the soul. Therefore, Christians initially had reservations about this genre and believed it to be incompatible with Christian worship, literacy and intellectual activity. In practice, however, forms of specifically Christian poetry developed from the end of the third century onwards; theoretical reconciliations were developed around 400 A.D. This collection examines specimens of Christian poetry from Juvencus (the first biblical epicist shortly after 300) up to the thirteenth century. Its particular usefulness lies in the combination of literary theory and hermeneutics, close readings of the texts and new readings on a sound philological basis.

Contents:

Preliminary material / W. Otten and K. Pollmann

Introduction / W. Otten and K. Pollmann

Augustine and poetic exegesis / H.J. Westra

Quid facit cum Horatio Hieronymus? Christian latin poetry and scriptural poetics / M. Vessey

Time and the integrity of poetry: Ambrose and Augustine / M.B. Pranger

The evangeliorum libri of Juvencus: Exegesis by stealth? / R.P.H. Green

Cantatur ad delectationem: Ambrose’s lyric poetry / J. Den Boeft

Technological innovation and poetical exegesis: The glass lamp in Prudentius’Cathemerinon 5 / J. Clarke

The Carmen ad uxorem and the genre of the Epithalamium / R. Chiappiniello

Principles of structure and unity in latin biblical epic / M. Hoffmann

Interpreting cultural change: Semiotics and exegesis in Dracontius’de Laudibus Dei / A. Arweiler

Exegesis by distorting pagan myths in Corippus’ epic poetry / Ch.O. Tommasi Moreschini

Reflections on the meaning of the Ecloga Theoduli: Where is the authorial voice? / M. Herren

Epic poetry as exegesis: ‘The song of the good war’ (Eupolemius) / K. Smolak

The poetics of biblical tragedy in Abelard’s Planctus / W. Otten and K. Pollmann

Biblical poetry in latin liturgical texts / A.A.R. Bastiaensen

The saint as preacher. Remarks on a rare motif in late antique and medieval poetry / H. Müller

Poetry and suffering: Metrical paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyons’ Passio Acaunensium Martyrum / W. Otten and K. Pollmann

Biblical versifications from late antiquity to the middle of the thirteenth century: History or allegory? / G. Dinkova-Bruun

Index nominum / W. Otten and K. Pollmann

Index rerum / W. Otten and K. Pollmann

Index locorum / W. Otten and K. Pollmann

Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae / W. Otten and K. Pollmann.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

1-281-93614-6

9786611936143

90-474-2132-9

OCLC:

658136043

Publisher Number:

10.1163/ej.9789004160699.i-364 DOI