This book explores the production and use of medieval manuscripts that contain classical Latin texts. Six experts in the field address a range of topics related to these manuscripts, including how classical texts were disseminated throughout medieval society, how readers used and interacted with specific texts, and what these books look like from a material standpoint. This collection of essays also considers the value of studying classical manuscripts as a distinct group, and demonstrates how such a collective approach can add to our understanding of how classical works functioned in medieval society. Focusing on the period 800-1200, when classical works played a crucial role in the teaching of grammar, rhetoric, and dialectics, this volume investigates how classical Latin texts were copied, used, and circulated in both discrete and shared contexts.
Author(s): Erik Kwakkel (ed.)
Series: Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Book Culture
Publisher: Leiden University Press
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 224
List of Figures and Plates 7
Preface 9
Abbreviations 11
Manuscripts of the Latin Classics 800-1200: An Introduction / Erik Kwakkel 13
Carolingian Scholarship on Classical Authors: Practices of Reading and Writing / Mariken Teeuwen 23
The Transmission of Tibullus in the Tenth and Eleventh Centuries / Robert G. Babcock 53
Diagrams of Knowledge and Rhetoric in Manuscripts of Cicero's "De inventione" / Irene O'Daly 77
Classics on Scraps: Classical Manuscripts Made from Parchment Waste / Erik Kwakkel 107
Living with Ovid: The Founding of Arnulf of Orléans' Thebes / David T. Gura 131
William of Malmesbury and the Classics: New Evidence / Rodney Thomson 169
Notes on Contributors 187
Colour Plates 193
Index of Manuscripts 217
General Index 219
