Marek Thue Kretschmer, Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age. A Study of the Versus Eporedienses and the Latin Classics, Turnhout, 2020.
Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin
175 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-58703-5
€ 75 excl. tva
First book-length study of the elegiac love poem Versus Eporedienses (ca. 1080)
The Versus Eporedienses (Verses from Ivrea), written around the year 1080 and attributed to a certain Wido, is a highly fascinating elegiac love poem celebrating worldly pleasures in an age usually associated with contemptus mundi. One of the poem's intriguing features, its extensive use of the Latin classics, especially of Ovid, makes it a precursor of the poetry of the so-called twelfth-century renaissance. In this first book-length study of the poem, the author provides a historical contextualisation, an edition and translation, a verse-by-verse commentary, a detailed analysis of the classical sources and a discussion of its similarities with contemporary and later medieval poetry.
Marek Thue Kretschmer is Professor of Medieval Latin Literature at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. He is the author of Rewriting Roman History in the Middle Ages (2007), editor of La typologie biblique comme forme de pensée dans l'historiographie médiévale (2014) and has published widely on the reception of the Latin classics, notably on the medieval reception of Ovid.
Table of Contents
Introduction
• Text and Translation
• Commentary
• Sources of Inspiration
• The Versus Eporedienses and the Dawn of the Twelfth Century
• Similarities and Matches in Twelfth- and Thirteenth-Century Love Poetry
• Bibliography • Index auctorum et carminum • Index locorum similium
• Index locorum similium per ordinem auctorum et carminum digestus
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