A commentary on Nigel of Canterbury's Miracles of the Virgin / Jan M. Ziolkowski.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ziolkowski, Jan M., 1956- author.

Series:

Supplements to the Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; supplement to DOML 75

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Wireker, Nigellus, approximately 1130-approximately 1200. Miracula sancte dei genitricis Virginis Marie, versifice.

Wireker, Nigellus.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint--Poetry--History and criticism.

Mary.

Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern)--History and criticism.

Christian poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern).

Christian saints--Poetry--History and criticism.

Christian saints.

Mary, Blessed Virgin, Saint.

Genre:

Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Poetry.

Physical Description:

xvi, 262 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Washington, DC : Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, [2022]

Summary:

"Nigel of Canterbury, also known as Longchamp and Whiteacre, wrote toward the end of the so-called Twelfth-Century Renaissance. He was a Benedictine monk of Christ Church when Thomas Becket was martyred, and a star of Anglo-Latin literature while the Angevin kings held sway over a vast empire that encompassed not only the British Isles but also western France. The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library volume features, alongside the Latin, the first-ever English translation of Nigel's second-longest poem, Miracles of the Virgin. The Miracles is the oldest extant collection of versified miracles of Mary in Latin and indeed in any language. The seventeen narratives, telling a gamut of tales from diabolic pacts to pregnant abbesses, gave scope for Nigel to display skills as a storyteller and stylist, while recounting the miraculous mercy of the Virgin. This supplement offers an extensive commentary to facilitate appreciation of the Miracles as poetry by a medieval writer deeply imbued in the long tradition of Latin literature"-- Provided by publisher.

Notes:

Includes index.

"Supplement to DOML 75, Nigel of Canterbury : Miracles of the Virgin ; Tract on abuses, edited and translated by Jan M. Ziolkowski and Ronald E. Pepin, published by Harvard University Press"--Series title page.

ISBN:

9780884024941

0884024946

OCLC:

1347048742