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Virgil in Medieval England - Figuring The Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer (Paperback, New)
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Virgil in Medieval England - Figuring The Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer (Paperback, New)
Series: Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature
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What 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.
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