Medieval responses to Ovid's exile / Rebecca Menmuir.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Menmuir, Rebecca, author.

Series:

Classics after antiquity.

Classics after antiquity

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Influence.

Ovid.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Appreciation--Europe.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Criticism and interpretation.

Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 A.D. or 18 A.D--Criticism and interpretation--History.

Gower, John, 1325?-1408. Vox clamantis. Visio Anglie.

Gower, John.

Chaucer, Geoffrey, -1400.

Chaucer, Geoffrey.

Exile (Punishment) in literature.

Authors, Exiled, in literature.

Literature, Medieval--History and criticism.

Literature, Medieval.

Literature, Medieval--Classical influences.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xii, 250 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom : Cambridge University Press, 2025.

Summary:

The Augustan poet Ovid exerted significant influence over the Middle Ages, and his exile captured the later medieval imagination. Medieval Responses to Ovid's Exile examines a variety of creative scholastic and literary responses to Ovid's exile across medieval culture. It ranges across the medieval schoolroom, where new forms shape Ovidian exile anew, literary pilgrimages, medieval fantasies of dismemberment and visits to Ovid's tomb. These responses capture Ovid's metamorphosis into a poet for the Christian age, while elsewhere medieval poets such as John Gower and Geoffrey Chaucer demonstrate how to inhabit an Ovidian exilic voice. Medieval audiences fundamentally understood the foundations laid by the exilic Ovid, and so from antiquity and from exile Ovid shaped his own reception. The extent, enthusiasm and engagement of medieval responses to Ovid's exile are to such a degree that they must be considered when we read Ovid's exilic works, or indeed any of his poetry.

Contents:

Introduction

Part 1. Responding to exile. Ovid's response

Forming responses

Resurrecting Ovid

Part 2. Becoming the exile. Becoming the exile

John Gower's Visio Anglie

Geoffrey Chaucer's exilic voice

Epilogue : forging exile.

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 30 May 2025).

ISBN:

1-009-55390-9

1-009-55394-1

1-009-55389-5

OCLC:

1521498828