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English Humanism and the Reception of Virgil c. 1400-1550: Oxford English Monographs

Autor Matthew Day
en Limba Engleză Hardback – dec 2022
English Humanism and the Reception of Virgil c. 1400-1550 reassesses how the spread of Renaissance humanism in England impacted the reception of Virgil. It begins with the first signs of humanist influence in the fifteenth century, and ends at the height of the English Renaissance during the mid-Tudor period. This period witnessed the first extant English translations of Virgil's Aeneid, by William Caxton (1490), Gavin Douglas (1513), and the Earl of Surrey (c. 1543). It also marked the first printings of Virgil's works in England by Richard Pynson (c. 1515) and Wynkyn de Worde (1510s-1520s). Through a fine-grained analysis of surviving manuscripts and early printed editions, Matthew Day questions how and to what extent Renaissance humanism impacted readers' and translators' approaches to Virgil. Building on current scholarship in the fields of book history, classical reception, and translation studies, it draws attention to substantial continuities between the medieval and humanist reception of Virgil's works. Humanist study of Virgil, and indeed of classical poetry more generally, continued to draw many of its aims, methods, and conventions from well-established medieval traditions of learning. In emphasizing the very gradual pace of humanist development and the continuous influence of medieval scholarship, the book comes to a more qualified view of how humanism did and (just as importantly) did not affect Virgilian reading and translation. While recognizing humanist innovations and discoveries, it gives due attention to the understudied, yet far more numerous examples of consistency and traditionalism.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780192871138
ISBN-10: 0192871137
Pagini: 240
Dimensiuni: 145 x 223 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.41 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Oxford English Monographs

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

Nicholson's elegantly written book makes a convincing case for the centrality of women to every aspect of crusading and should become an invaluable text for courses on gender, the global Middle Ages, and the crusades.
Day has here provided an admirable service in building a bridge - if not the last word, at least a scaffold for more fully realized work to come - across a neglected historical gap. It sheds much-needed light on the way English scholars and poets cautiously and incrementally engaged with classical antiquity.

Notă biografică

Matthew Day completed a DPhil in Medieval English literature at the University of Oxford. He subsequently held a postdoctoral research fellowship at the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies.