Education of nuns, feast of fools, letters of love : medieval religious life in twelfth-century lyric anthologies from Regensburg, Ripoll and Chartres / edition, translation, and introduction by David A. Traill and Justin Haynes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Traill, David A., 1942- translator, editor.

Haynes, Justin (Classicist), translator, editor.

Series:

Dallas medieval texts and translations ; 26.

Dallas medieval texts and translations ; 26

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Love poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Genre:

Poetry.

Physical Description:

x, 184 pages : facsimiles ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Leuven ; Paris ; Bristol, CT : Peeters, 2021.

Language Note:

Poems in Latin and parallel English translation.

Summary:

"These three anthologies are all relatively unknown, particularly in the English-speaking world, outside of professional medieval Latinist circles. Though excerpts from the Regensburg and Ripoll poems have been published in English translation, only the Ripoll poems have been translated completely, and only into Spanish and French. Making these anthologies available in a bilingual edition with commentary will make the insight they provide into several aspects of medieval life accessible to medieval historians as well as the more general public. The Regensburg poems take the form of epistolary exchanges in Leonine hexameters, mainly between a male teacher and his female students, who appear to have been nuns. Some of the sixty-eight short poems imply an erotic relationship between teacher and student. The poems afford us rare glimpses into the education of women at this time. The Ripoll poems are a collection of twenty love poems, probably written in Lorraine around 1150 and copied in Ripoll. All twenty poems were written by a single unknown poet, except for one, a misogynistic poem also found in other manuscripts. The Chartres poems comprise seven performed at the post-Christmas festivities in Chartres around 1180, when the world was turned upside down in a carnivalesque suspension of the normal social order. This collection offers unique insight into the kind of poems performed during these 'feasts of fools'. The last four poems are by two of the most famous medieval Latin poets, Walter of Châtillon and Peter of Blois, the canonist."--Provided by vendor.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: The Regensburg Poems

The Ripoll Poems

The Vatican Collection

Bibliography

Carmina Ratisponensia-Regensburg Poems

Carmina Rivipullensia-Ripoll Poems

Carmina ex codice Vat. lat. 4389 desumpta-Poems from Chartres (in MS. Vat. lat. 4389).

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contains:

Carmina Ratisponensia. English. Traill and Haynes. 2021.

Carmina Ratisponensia. Latin. Traill and Haynes. 2021.

Carmina Rivipullensia. English. Traill and Haynes. 2021.

Carmina Rivipullensia. Latin. Traill and Haynes. 2021.

Carmina ex codice Vat. lat. 4389 desumpta. English. Traill and Haynes. 2021.

Carmina ex codice Vat. lat. 4389 desumpta. Latin. Traill and Haynes. 2021.

ISBN:

9789042945944

904294594X

OCLC:

1265345292

Publisher Number:

99988334821