F. Stella, The Carolingian Revolution

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Francesco Stella, The Carolingian Revolution. Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature I, Turnhout, 2020.

Éditeur : Brepols
Collection : Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 48
XVIII-412 pages
ISBN : 978-2-503-58799-8
110 €


Presents samples of experimental methods for reading medieval Latin texts, especially Carolingian literature.
This book presents samples of experimental methods for reading medieval Latin texts that have scarcely been adopted, if at all, by mainstream research in the field. It contributes to the discovery of some underestimated aspects of early medieval (especially Carolingian) Latin literature: intertextuality as intercultural relationship (in Biblical epic), intermediality (text-image-sound connections), interdisciplinarity (science, religion, and poetry), hermeneutics (Biblical exegesis as poetry-engine), post-colonial reading (medieval Latin as a second language), socio-literary approaches (monastic epigraphs as witnesses of everyday life, writing as a status symbol of an intellectual class and a whole civilization). It also discusses quantitative methods, which are explored in more detail in a second volume, Digital Philology and Quantitative Criticism of Medieval Literature: Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature II).
The book thus seeks to encourage scholarly interest in obscure or less familiar elements of the Carolingian literary renewal, interpreted here as more a laboratory of innovations than a revival of traditional patterns.


Francesco Stella, member of the Academia Europaea, is professor of Medieval Latin Literature at the University of Siena and head of the Master program in Digital Edition. The author of essays and monographs on Carolingian literature, Biblical poetry, and 12-13th century epistolography, he coordinates some of the first research projects on digital philology of medieval Latin texts, and directs the series Scrittori latini dell'Europa medievale and Hagiographica Coreana.

Table of Contents

Preface

Chapter 1. Intercultural Imitation in Christian Latin Poetry as a Path to the Medieval Poetics of Alterity

Chapter 2. The Women of the Old Testament in Early Medieval Poetry: Judith and the Others

Chapter 3. Ad supplementum sensus: Hermeneutic Plurality and Increase in Meaning in Biblical Poetics from the Middle Ages to Derrida

Chapter 4. A Repressed Beauty: Biblical Poetics and the Legitimisation of Poetry in Medieval Culture

Chapter 5. The Poetics of Communication in the Carolingian Age

Chapter 6. A Lexical Journey through Alcuin's Poetry

Chapter 7. Some Linguistic Features of Popular Songs in Medieval and Modern Times

Chapter 8. Versus ad picturas in the Carolingian Era

Chapter 9. Verse Historiography in the Carolingian Era: The Political Typology of Ingelheim Paintings

Chapter 10. The Sense of Time in Carolingian Poetry: Christianising the Zodiac and Astronomical Observation in Pacificus of Verona

Chapter 11. Literary Epigraphy in the Carolingian Monastery

Chapter 12. Carolingian Verse Collections

Chapter 13. The Modern Success and Medieval Marginality of Modoin of Autun's Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa

Chapter 14. A ‘Postcolonial' Approach to Medieval Latin Literature?

Bibliography

Indices

 

 

Source : Brepols