Bede's Latin poetry / edited and translated by Michael Lapidge.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735, author.

Contributor:

Lapidge, Michael, editor, translator.

Series:

Oxford medieval texts

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735--Translations into English.

Bede.

Cuthbert, Saint, Bishop of Lindisfarne, approximately 635-687--Early works to 1800.

Cuthbert.

Cuthbert, Saint, Bishop of Lindisfarne, approximately 635-687.

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Genre:

Poetry.

Translations.

Physical Description:

xvi, 605 pages ; 23 cm.

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Clarendon Press ; New York, NY : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Language Note:

Poems in Latin and parallel English translation, editorial material in English.

Summary:

"Although his historical and exegetical works are better known, Bede's small corpus of Latin poetry was widely read and imitated throughout the Middle Ages. Yet in spite of its importance as a keystone in medieval Latin literature, there has not previously been an attempt to collect and edit this corpus of verse in light of all the surviving manuscript evidence. Bede's Latin Poetry is the first edition of his poetic corpus based on all surviving manuscripts. It includes new editions of his two major poems, the 'Verses on Judgement Day' (Versus de die iudicii) and the metrical 'Life of St Cuthbert' (Vita metrica S. Cudbercti), and also includes reconstructions of his two other poetic collections - a book of epigrams and a book of hymns - which were not preserved intact during the Middle Ages and which have had to be assembled from various disparate sources. The editions of all these works are provided with translations and detailed notes, revealing Bede's debts to earlier poets, and illustrating his remarkable skill in understanding the intricacies of Latin verse composition. A series of appendices discuss and print many other poems which have been erroneously attributed to Bede by earlier editors, and include the first edition of a hitherto unknown early draft of his metrical 'Life of St Cuthbert'."-- Front flap of dust jacket.

Contents:

Bede as Latin poet

The Versvs de die ivdicii

The metrical Vita S. Cvdbercti

The Liber epigrammatvm

The Liber hymnorvm

Versvs de die ivdicii (Latin and English)

Vita metrica S. Cvdbercti (Latin and English)

Liber epigrammatvm (reconstructed ; Latin and English)

The Liber hymnorvm (reconstructed ; Latin and English)

Appendices: The first redaction of Bede's Vita metrica S. Cudbercti ; Anonymous hymns doubtfully attributed to Bede ; Carmina computistica attributed in manuscript to Bede ; Poems attributed to Bede in a medieval Latin poetic anthology ; Hexameter verses on the observance of the four ember fasts ; Bede's "Death song".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 557-576) and indexes.

Contains:

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Poetry.

Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Poetry. English.

Container of : Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Vita Sancti Cuthberti. (Lapidge). 2019.

Container of : Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Vita Sancti Cuthberti. English. (Lapidge). 2019.

ISBN:

9780199242771

0199242771

OCLC:

1066069317