Vasileios Pappas, Non-Elegiac Latin Love Poetry of Late Antiquity, Berlin-Boston, 2025.

Éditeur : De Gruyter
Collection : Beiträge zur Altertumskunde, 427
VIII-282 pages
ISBN : 978-3-11-170986-4
99,95 €

For about five hundred years – between Ovid's death (17 AD) and Maximianus' Elegies (6th century AD) – the genre of love elegy disappears. Does this mean that love poetry in general was no longer being written? This was certainly not the case. Poets continued to compose love poetry, merely in other forms than elegy. This book deals with non-elegiac Latin love poetry of Late Antiquity. It is the first monograph to focus on the metaliterary interpretation of four non-elegiac poetic works: the Pervigilium Veneris, Ausonius' Bissula, Reposianus' De concubitu Martis et Veneris, and the Aegritudo Perdicae. The book contains all the required information about these poems (including their date, authorship, structure, and literary tradition). However, its content is predominantly original, as it examines subjects that have not previously been discussed in the past. These include: a) the generic interaction between the poems' ‘host' genre and several ‘guest' genres that are present within them; b) the metaliterary discourse developed in several passages, which reveals the metapoetic self-consciousness of their poets; c) their hidden demands for the innovation of love poetry; and d) their allusive comments on the conservatism of this era.

Source : De Gruyter

Éloïse Adde et Jonathan Dumont (éd.), Naturalisation of Power (1250-1600): Unravelling the Strategies of Legitimation, Florence, 2025.

Éditeur : Sismel - Edizioni del Galluzzo
Collection : Micrologus Library, 127
IX-330 pages
ISBN : 978-88-9290-363-0
68 €

Acknowledgments. Abbreviations. É. Adde - J. Dumont, Nature, Legitimacy and Power. A preliminary Approach. THINKING NATURE IN THE SOCIAL WORLD. M. van der Lugt - Naturalising the Law - Legalising Nature. The Role of Medical Analogies and Arguments in Medieval Discussions about Consanguinity, Incest and Kin Marriage – J. Le Mauff, Political Naturalism and Communitarian Values. The corpus reipublicae and its Meaning in the Twelfth Century – A. Destemberg, Création divine et naturalisation de l'ordre social aux XIIIe-XVe siècles. L'exégèse visuelle et textuelle de la Genèse dans les Bibles moralisées – N. Hochner, Incommensurability and the Kinetic Nature of Society – L. Jollivet, La légitimation du pouvoir en période de crise. Le cercle de Nicolas de Clamanges et les prémices de la notion de ‘mérite', 1380 -1430.