Classical Influences on European Culture A.D. 500–1500
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- Author: R. R. Bolgar
- Date Published: August 2009
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This volume consists of original papers first read at Kings College, Cambridge, in 1969 at the International Conference on Classical Influences. The contributors are distinguished in a wide range of academic disciplines but all are concerned in one way or another with the spread and influence of classical, particularly Roman, civilisation through a number of European cultures from AD 500 to 1500. The book begins with the manuscript tradition - the contents, location and history of the literary remains that provide the basic evidence on which all research in this subject must to some extent rely. This leads naturally to a discussion of what classical texts were actually read and studied, when, where and by whom. The majority of contributors go on to examine the Roman tradition as a positive cultural on language, literature, philosophy and art. Classical civilisation is shown to be a live historical force whose survival consists rather in the creative responses and developments it has inspired than in the mere preservation of its physical relics.
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- Date Published: August 2009
- format: Paperback
- isbn: 9780521118132
- length: 352 pages
- dimensions: 229 x 152 x 20 mm
- weight: 0.52kg
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Table of Contents
Preface L. P. Wilkinson
Editors note
Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Contributors
Introduction: a way ahead? R. R. Bolgar
Part I. Latin Manuscripts and their Catalogues:
1. Vanishing and unavailable evidence: Latin manuscripts in the Middle Ages and today R. D. Sweeney
2. L'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes et l'etude des manuscrits des auteurs classiques M. T. H. D'Alverny and M. C. Garand
Part II. The Readers and Fortunes of Classical Manuscripts:
3. The classics in Celtic Ireland L. Bieler
4. The deposit of Latin classics in the twelfth-century renaissance R. W. Hunt
5. I primi umanisti e l'antichita classica G. Billanovich
6. Ausonius in the fourteenth century R. Weiss
7. Oliviero Forzetta e la diffusione dei testi classici nel Veneto al tempo del Petrarca L. Gargan
Part III. Methods of Teaching and Scholarship:
8. Living with the Satirists B. Bischoff
9. La lecture des auteurs classiques a l'ecole de Chartres durant la premiere moitie du XIIe siecle E. Jeauneau
10. The Opus de Conscribendis Epistolis of Erasmus and the tradition of the Ars Epistolica A. Gerlo
11. Humanism and humanist literature in the Low Countries before 1500 J. Ijsewijn
12. The character of humanist philology E. J. Kenney
Part IV. The Influence of Classical Literature:
13. La Survie comparee des Confessions augustiniennes et de la Consolation boecienne P. Courcelle
14. Classical influence on early Norse literature U. Dronke
15. Poetic rivalries at the court of Charlemagne D. Schaller
16. Functions of classical borrowing in medieval Latin verse E. P. M. Dronke
17. Sallust in the Middle Ages B. Smalley
18. Momus and the nature of Humanism J. H. Whitfield
19. Toni ed echi ovidiani nella poesia di Giano Pannonio T. Kardos
Part V. The Influence of Classical Ideas:
20. Later Platonism and its influences A. H. Armstrong
21. Le commentaire ordonne du monde dans quelques sommes scientifiques des XIIe et XIIIe siecles S. Viarre
22. Petrarch and the transmission of classical elements C. N. J. Mann
23. Aspetti della vita contemplativa nel rinascimento itlaiano F. Schalk
24. The conformity of Greek and the vernacular J. B. Trapp
Part VI. Classical Themes Common to Literature and Art and Classical Influences in Architecture:
25. Personification E. H. Gombrich
26. Criticism and praise of the Pantheon in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance T. Buddensieg
27. Quattrocento architecture and the antique: some problems H. Burns
Index.
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