Proceedings of an international conference held at King's College, Cambridge, April 1969.
This volume consists of original papers first read at King’s 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, civilization through a number of European cultures from A.D. 500 to 1500. Their primary intention here is to indicate the most urgent and promising directions for future research in what is still a relatively unexplored field.
The book begins with the manuscript tradition — the contents, location and history of the literary remains which 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 influence on language, literature, philosophy and art. Classical civilization 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.
Author(s): Robert R. Bolgar (ed.)
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Year: 1971
Language: English, Italian, French
Pages: XXVIII+320
Preface / L. P. Wilkinson v
Editor's note viii
Illustrations xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Contributors xiv
Introduction: A Way Ahead? / R. R. Bolgar 1
PART I. LATIN MANUSCRIPTS AND THEIR CATALOGUES
1. Vanishing and unavailable evidence: Latin manuscripts in the Middle Ages and today / R. D. Sweeney 29
2. L’Institut de Recherche et d’Histoire des Textes et l’etude des manuscrits des auteurs classiques / M.-Th. d’Alverny et M.-G. Garand 37
PART II. THE READERS AND FORTUNES OF CLASSICAL MANUSCRIPTS
3. The classics in Celtic Ireland / L. Bieler 45
4. The deposit of Latin classics in the twelfth-century renaissance / R. W. Hunt 51
5. I primi umanisti e l’antichità classica / G. Billanovich 57
6. Ausonius in the fourteenth century / R. Weiss 67
7. Oliviero Forzetta e la diffusione dei testi classici nel Veneto al tempo del Petrarca / L. Gargan 73
PART III. METHODS OF TEACHING AND SCHOLARSHIP
8. Living with the Satirists / B. Bischoff 83
9. La lecture des auteurs classiques à l’école de Chartres durant la première moitié du XIle siècle / E. Jeauneau 95
10. The "Opus de Conscribendis Epistolis" of Erasmus and the tradition of the "Ars Epistolica" / A. Gerlo 103
11. Humanism and humanist literature in the Low Countries before 1500 / J. Ijsewijn 115
12. The character of humanist philology / E. J. Kenney 119
PART IV. THE INFLUENCE OF CLASSICAL LITERATURE
13. La Survie comparée des "Corifessions" augustiniennes et de la "Consolation" boécienne / P. Courcelle 131
14. Classical influence on early Norse literature / U. Dronke 143
15. Poetic rivalries at the court of Charlemagne / D. Schaller 151
16. Functions of classical borrowing in medieval Latin verse / E. P. M. Dronke 159
17. Sallust in the Middle Ages / B. Smalley 165
18. "Momus" and the nature of Humanism / J. H. Whitfield 177
19. Toni ed echi ovidiani nella poesia di Giano Pannonio / T. Kardos 183
PART V. THE INFLUENCE OF CLASSICAL IDEAS
20. Later Platonism and its influence / A. H. Armstrong 197
21. Le commentaire ordonné du monde dans quelques sommes scientifiques des XIIe et XIIIe siècles / S. Viarre 203
22. Petrarch and the transmission of classical elements / C. N. J. Mann 217
23. Aspetti della vita contemplativa nel rinascimento italiano / F. Schalk 225
24. The conformity of Greek and the vernacular / J. B. Trapp 239
PART VI. CLASSICAL THEMES COMMON TO LITERATURE AND ART AND CLASSICAL INFLUENCES IN ARCHITECTURE
25. Personification / E. H. Gombrich 247
26. Criticism and praise of the Pantheon in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance: T. Buddensieg 259
27. Quattrocento architecture and the antique: some problems / H. Burns 269
Index 289
