The Cambridge songs : (Carmina Cantabrigiensia) / edited and translated by Jan M. Ziolkowski.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Ziolkowski, Jan M., 1956- editor, translator.

Series:

Harvard studies in medieval Latin ; 3.

Harvard studies in medieval Latin ; 3

Language:

English

Latin

Subjects (All):

Songs, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Texts.

Songs, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Scriptoria.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern).

England--Canterbury.

England.

England--Cambridge.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--England--Texts.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--England--Translations into English.

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England--Canterbury.

Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--England--Cambridge.

Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--England.

Scriptoria--England--Canterbury.

Genre:

Texts.

Translations.

Physical Description:

lxiv, 401 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, Massachusetts : Department of the Classics, Harvard University, 2020.

Summary:

"The Cambridge Songs, from the Latin Carmina Cantabrigiensia, is the most important anthology of songs from before the thirteenth-century Carmina Burana. It offers the only major surviving anthology of Latin lyric poems from between Charlemagne and the Battle of Hastings. It contains panegyrics and dirges, political poems, comic tales, religious and didactic poems, and poetry of spring and love. Was it a classbook for the study of students, or a songbook for the use of professional entertainers? The greatest certainty is that the poems were composed in the learned language, and that they were associated with song. The collection is like the contents of an eleventh-century jukebox or playlist of top hits from more than three centuries This edition and translation, now in its third printing, has become a standard. It comprises a substantial introduction, the Latin texts and English prose in carefully matched presentation, and extensive commentary, along with appendices, list of works cited, and indices. This book is meant for anyone, especially those interested in the culture of music, Latin, and traveling entertainers, who wishes to get a taste of literature and life in the early Middle Ages. It works equally well for classrooms and personal reading"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1. Cc 27: Latin Texts Of The Other Versions

2. Cc 28: Reconstructed Text And Translation

3. Cc 33: Strophes Of The Longer Version

4. "Vt Belli Sonuere Tube, Uiolenta Peremit".

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780674258464

0674258460

OCLC:

1240492218

Publisher Number:

99988347405