Latin love elegy and the dawn of the Ovidian age : a study of the Versus Eporedienses and the Latin classics / Marek Thue Kretschmer.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kretschmer, Marek Thue, author.

Series:

Publications of the Journal of medieval Latin ; 14.

Publications of the Journal of medieval Latin, 2033-883X ; 14

Standardized Title:

Versus Eporedienses. Latin & English

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Elegiac poetry, Latin--History and criticism.

Elegiac poetry, Latin.

Latin poetry.

Erotic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Latin poetry--Early works to 1800.

Classical poetry--History and criticism.

Classical poetry.

Love poetry, Latin--Translations into English.

Love poetry, Latin.

Genre:

Elegiac poetry, Latin.

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Early works.

Translations.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

175 pages ; 26 cm.

Other Title:

Latin love elegy and the dawn of the Ovidian age

Verses from Ivrea

Place of Publication:

Turnhout : Brepols, [2020]

Language Note:

Text in Latin and English translation.

Summary:

"The Versus Eporedienses (Verses from Ivrea), written around the year 1080 and attributed to a certain Wido, is a highly fascinating elegiac love poem celebrating worldly pleasures in an age usually associated with contemptus mundi. One of the poem's intriguing features, its extensive use of the Latin classics, especially of Ovid, makes it a precursor of the poetry of the so-called twelfth-century renaissance. In this first book-length study of the poem, the author provides a historical contextualisation, a verse-by-verse commentary, a detailed analysis of the classical sources and a discussion of its similarities with contemporary and later medieval poetry."-- From the back cover.

Contents:

Acknowledgements

Abbreviations

Introduction

Edition and translation

Commentary

Verse by verse commentary

Appendix 1. Sources of inspiration: Classical Latin Poetry: Ovid, Vergil, Juvenal, Lucan, Martial, Statius, Horace, Ilias Latina, Propertius, Seneca, Tibullus, Canticum Canticorum, Late Latin Poetry: Quod natum Phoebus, Prudentius, Venantius Fortunatus, Maximianus, Medieval Latin poetry

Appendix 2. The Versus Eporedienses and the dawn of the twelfth century: Wenric of Trier's Conflictus ovis et lini, The poet of Asti's Novus Avianus, Godfrey of Reims, Baudri of Bourgueil

Appendix 3. Similarities and matches in twelfth- and thirteenth-century love poetry: Z 49 (Dulcis amica mea) CR 26 (Si uera somnia) Hugh Primas (1093-c.1160) Carmina Burana De tribus puellis Bruma grando glacies Fidus amicus here

Bibliography: Primary sources (Classical, Late Latin, Medieval)

Secondary sources

Index nominum

Index codicum

Index auctorum et carminum

Index locorum similium

Index locorum similium per ordinem auctorum et carminum digestus.

Notes:

This book contains the Latin text with an English translation and commentary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

e-book version

ISBN:

9782503587035

2503587038

OCLC:

1143318754

Publisher Number:

9782503587035