{"product_id":"virgil-in-medieval-england-figuring-the-aeneid-from-the-twelfth-century-to-chaucer-hardback-9780521462945","title":"Virgil in Medieval England; Figuring The Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer (Hardback) 9780521462945","description":"\u003cfont face=\"Georgia\"\u003e\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"6\"\u003eVirgil in Medieval England\u003c\/font\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\r\n\u003cfont size=\"5\"\u003eFiguring The Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eExamines the impact of an ancient and prestigious text on medieval culture.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"4\"\u003eChristopher Baswell (Author)\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e9780521462945, Cambridge University Press\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eHardback, published 26 May 1995\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e460 pages, 6 b\/w illus.\u003cbr\u003e23.7 x 15.8 x 3 cm, 0.759 kg\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cem\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003e\"No student of medieval of Renaissance classicism can ignor Baswell's book.  it is a treasure trove of information about the medieval Virgil brilliantly distilled to serve the needs of literary analysis.\"    Barbara Nolan, Modern Philology\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp align=\"justify\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eWhat happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and reused in a different, much later world? What can we learn from the annotations accumulated by a single manuscript as it moved among different institutions and readerships? In this study Christopher Baswell takes as his model Virgil's ancient epic poem The Aeneid, which held many kinds of appeal for the culture of the Middle Ages. He examines a series of Latin manuscripts of the text which were copied in twelfth-century England but reused and reannotated for three centuries, and shows how their users approached the epic in very different ways. He then charts the progression from the Latin of the original to the vernaculars of the Roman d'Eneas and Chaucer's House of Fame and Legend of Good Women, to show how medieval vernacular poets used Virgil's prestige to lay their own claim to poetic and even political authority.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eIntroduction: manuscripts and their contexts\u003cbr\u003e 1. Auctor to Auctoritas: modes of access to Virgil in medieval England\u003cbr\u003e 2. Pedagogical exegesis of Virgil in medieval England: Oxford All Souls College 82\u003cbr\u003e 3. Spiritual allegory, platonising cosmology, and the Boethian Aeneid in medieval England: Cambridge, Peterhouse College, 158\u003cbr\u003e 4. Moral allegory and the Aeneid in the time of Chaucer: London, BL Additional 27304\u003cbr\u003e 5. The romance Aeneid\u003cbr\u003e 6. Writing the reading of Virgil: Chaucerian authorities in the House of Fame and the Legend of Good Women\u003cbr\u003e Conclusion\u003cbr\u003e Apendices\u003cbr\u003e Notes\u003cbr\u003e Bibliography, Indexes.\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cfont size=\"3\"\u003eSubject Areas: Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval [\u003ca title=\"See our other books on Literary studies: classical, early \u0026amp; medieval\" href=\"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/search?q=%22Literary%20studies:%20classical,%20early%20\u0026amp;%20medieval%20%5BDSBB%5D%22\"\u003eDSBB\u003c\/a\u003e]\u003c\/font\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\r\n\r\n\r\n\u003c\/font\u003e","brand":"Cambridge University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46007574102296,"sku":"9780521462945","price":115.49,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0730\/2037\/5320\/products\/9780521462945i_a85d3682-9a3d-49d6-8f90-eaa06d4e3949.jpg?v=1691382460","url":"https:\/\/freshlyprintedbooks.co.uk\/products\/virgil-in-medieval-england-figuring-the-aeneid-from-the-twelfth-century-to-chaucer-hardback-9780521462945","provider":"Freshly Printed Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}