Vita sancti Martini. Prologue and Books I-II / Venantius Fortunatus ; edited with introduction and commentary by N.M. Kay.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, approximately 540-approximately 600, author.

Contributor:

Kay, N. M. (Nigel M.), editor, translator, writer of added commentary.

Series:

Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 59.

Cambridge classical texts and commentaries ; 59

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, approximately 540-approximately 600. Vita Sancti Martini.

Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus.

Martin, Saint, Bishop of Tours, approximately 316-397--Poetry.

Martin.

Martin, Saint, Bishop of Tours, approximately 316-397.

Bilingual books.

Genre:

Hagiographies.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

viii, 580 pages : illustration ; 23 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY, USA ; Port Melbourne, VIC, Australia ; New Delhi, India ; Singapore : Cambridge University Press, 2020.

Language Note:

Parallel Latin text and English translation.

Summary:

This volume provides a new critical text of the Prologue and the first two books of Venantius Fortunatus' Vita Sancti Martini, a work, written in the latter half of the sixth century, which paraphrases in epic verse the famous prose hagiography of St Martin by Sulpicius Severus. This edition offers the first English translation of and the first full commentary on that part of Venantius' poem. Venantius was one of the last writers in a recognisably classical Latin tradition and his Vita affords a fascinating insight into the language and literary culture of his time. It is, however, a deceptively allusive and difficult poem, and the introduction and commentary of this book deal extensively with matters of exegesis, textual criticism, language, metre and much else. It will be valuable for students of the literature and culture of late Latin antiquity, and for those interested in early Christianity and hagiography.

Notes:

Appendixes include Latin text of Fortunatus's Epistula ad Gregorium, of Sulpicius Severus's Vita Sancti Martini and Paulinus of Périgeux' Vita Sancti Martini, I-III. English translation of Epistula ad Gregorium also included.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contains:

Container of: Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, approximately 540-approximately 600. Vita Sancti Martini. Selections (Kay). English

Container of: Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, approximately 540-approximately 600. Vita Sancti Martini. Selections (Kay). Latin

Container of: Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, approximately 540-approximately 600. Epistula ad Gregorium. English (Kay)

Container of: Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, approximately 540-approximately 600. Epistula ad Gregorium. Latin (Kay)

Container of: Severus, Sulpicius. Vita S. Martini Episcopi. Latin (Halm)

Container of: Paulinus, Petricordiae, active 459-472. De vita Sancti Martini episcopi versibus. Book 1-3. Latin (Petschenig)

Other Format:

Online version: Venantius Fortunatus: Vita sancti Martini : prologue and books i-ii

ISBN:

9781108425841

1108425844

OCLC:

1120784386