This volume deals with the question of the continuity of Latin literature throughout its history. For the first time, contributions are brought together from each of the three fields within the studies of Latin literature: Classical, Medieval and Neo-Latin, reflecting on problems such as the transmission of the Latin heritage, the creation and perpetuation of a classical normativeness and the reactions against it. The book is divided into three parts, corresponding to the theoretical principle of organic development: "Beginnings?", "Perfections?", "Transitions?", thus questioning the validity of a similar evolutionistic model. Because of the numerous points of contact between Latin and the national literatures, the volume is of particular relevance for the studies of the European literary history.
Author(s): Wim Verbaal, Yanick Maes, Jan Papy (eds.)
Series: Brill's Studies in Intellectual History, 144
Publisher: Brill
Year: 2007
Language: English
Pages: 240
Preface vii
Notes on the Editors xi
List of Contributors xiii
Part I. Introduction
Chapter One. The Burden of the Past: By Way of Introduction / Wim Verbaal 3
Part II. Beginnings?
Chapter Two. Antiquity’s Antiquity / Sander M. Goldberg 17
Chapter Three. Intercultural Imitation in Christian Latin Poetry as a Way to the Medieval Poetics of Alterity / Francesco Stella 31
Chapter Four. Linguistic Unity and Variety of Styles: The Latin of Poggio Bracciolini / Davide Canfora 53
Part III. Perfections?
Chapter Five. 'The Classics' as Potential for the Future: The 'High Period' of Ancient Latin Literature / Gregor Vogt-Spira 65
Chapter Six. Mastering Authors and Authorizing Masters in the Long Twelfth Century / Jan M. Ziolkowski 93
Chapter Seven. Humanist Rhetoric in the Renaissance: Classical Mastery? / Marc van der Poel 119
Part IV. Transitions?
Chapter Eight. Bringing Up The Rear: Continuity and Change in the Latin Poetry of Late Antiquity / Michael Roberts 141
Chapter Nine. The Latin Literature of the Late Middle Ages: Constructions of a Period / Thomas Haye 169
Chapter Ten. “Posteriores sed non deteriores”: The Humanist Perspective on Latin Literature at the End of the Quattrocento and its Repercussions in the French Renaissance / Perrine Galand-Hallyn 185
Index Nominum 215
