Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond A millennium heritage Edited by Francesco Stella

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Stella, Francesco, editor.

Doležalová, Lucie, editor.

Shanzer, Danuta, editor.

Series:

Comparative History of Literatures in European Languages 0238-0668 XXXIV

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Classical literature & literary studies.

Medieval literature & literary studies.

Romance literature & literary studies.

Theoretical literature & literary studies.

Local Subjects:

Classical literature & literary studies.

Medieval literature & literary studies.

Romance literature & literary studies.

Theoretical literature & literary studies.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xviii, 706 pages)

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; Philadelphia : John Benjamins Publishing Company, 2024

Summary:

The textual heritage of Medieval Latin is one of the greatest reservoirs of human culture. Repertories list more than 16,000 authors from about 20 modern countries. Until now, there has been no introduction to this world in its full geographical extension. Forty contributors fill this gap by adopting a new perspective, making available to specialists (but also to the interested public) new materials and insights. The project presents an overview of Medieval (and post-medieval) Latin Literatures as a global phenomenon including both Europe and extra-European regions. It serves as an introduction to medieval Latin's complex and multi-layered culture, whose attraction has been underestimated until now. Traditional overviews mostly flatten specificities, yet in many countries medieval Latin literature is still studied with reference to the local history. Thus the first section presents 20 regional surveys, including chapters on authors and works of Latin Literature in Eastern, Central and Northern Europe, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and the Americas. Subsequent chapters highlight shared patterns of circulation, adaptation, and exchange, and underline the appeal of medieval intermediality, as evidenced in manuscripts, maps, scientific treatises and iconotexts, and its performativity in narrations, theatre, sermons and music. The last section deals with literary "interfaces," that is motifs or characters that exemplify the double-sided or the long-term transformations of medieval Latin mythologemes in vernacular culture, both early modern and modern, such as the legends about King Arthur, Faust, and Hamlet. Provided by publisher.

Contents:

Chapter 1. Combien de littératures latines médiévales ? / Pascale Bourgain

Section IA. Regional layers

Chapter 2. Italy / Armando Bisanti

Chapter 3. France et Belgique / Cédric Giraud

Chapter 4. Germany and Austria / Daniela Mairhofer

Chapter 5. Switzerland / Peter Stotz

Chapter 6. Spain / Carlos Pérez González

Chapter 7. Portugal (950-1400) / Paulo Farmhouse Alberto

Chapter 8. Ireland, Scotland, Wales / Pádraic Moran

Chapter 9. England / Greti Dinkova-Bruun

Chapter 10. Czech lands / Lucie Doležalová

Chapter 11. Chronological and regional layers - Poland / Rafal Wójcik

Chapter 12. Hungary / Farkas Gábor Kiss

Chapter 13. Nordic countries / Lars Boje Mortensen

Chapter 14. Baltic countries / Piero Bugiani

Section IB. Regional Latinities outside Europe in the medieval and early modern times

Chapter 15. Africa (fifth-sixth century) / Armando Bisanti

Chapter 16. The Middle East / Edoardo D'Angelo

Chapter 17. Latin literature and the Arabic language / Daniel G. König

Chapter 18. Latin orientalism / Susanna Fischer

Chapter 19. Central and East Asia / Noël Golvers

Chapter 20. Latin literature on the "discovery" of America / Stefano Pittaluga

Chapter 21. A "postcolonial" approach to medieval Latin literature? / Francesco Stella

Section IIA. Manuscripts and visual communication

Chapter 22. The circulation of Latin texts during the Middle Ages / Carmen Cardelle de Hartmann

Chapter 23. Latin manuscripts as multimedia communication tools / Lucie Doležalová

Chapter 24. "Textual images" and "visual texts" / Gedeon Becht-Jördens

Chapter 25. Medieval science in daily life / Wesley Stevens

Chapter 26. Latin traditions in medieval cartography / Patrick Gautier Dalché

Section IIB. Orality and performance

Chapter 27. Liturgy, drama, preaching, and narration / Susan Boynton

Chapter 28. Sung medieval Latin verse as performance / Sam Barrett

Chapter 29. Gendering authorship / Joan Ferrante

Chapter 30. Ecologies of medieval Latin poetics / Ian Cornelius

Chapter 31. The art of letter-writing / Elisabetta Bartoli

Chapter 32. Between history and fiction / Willum Westenholz

Chapter 33. Starting anew / Gaston Javier Basile

Chapter 34. The conquest of literacy / Wim Verbaal

Chapter 35. Troilus and Briseida in the Western literature / Lourdes Raya Fages and Pablo Piqueras Yagüe

Chapter 36. Fairies from Walter Map to European folklore / Martha Bayless

Chapter 37. Geoffrey of Monmouth and the evolution of Excalibur / Susan Aronstein and Tison Pugh

Chapter 38. The matter of Troy in medieval Latin poetry (ca. 1060 - ca. 1230) / Marek Thue Kretschmer

Chapter 39. Hamlet / Chiara della Giovampaola

Chapter 40. Faust's medieval origins / Manuel Bauer

Biographies

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Other Format:

Hardbound version:

ISBN:

9789027247292

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Restricted for use by site license.