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Anglo-Latin & Heritage (English, Latin, Book)
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For some 40 years, A.G. Rigg has been defining the field of later
Anglo-Latin scholarship, a task culminating in his History of
Anglo-Latin Literature 1066-1422. Anglo-Latin and its Heritage is a
collection of thirteen essays by his colleagues and students, past
and present, which pays tribute to him both by exploring the field
he has defined, and by making forays into its antecedents and
descendants. The first section, Roots and Debts, includes essays on
the migration of classical and late antique motifs and patterns of
thought into early medieval Latin, and concludes with an essay
which shows how a twelfth-century writer reached back into that
earlier period for stylistic models. The central section of the
book, Anglo-Latin Literature 1066-1422, concentrates on Anglo-Latin
writers of the period most studied by Rigg himself, and the seven
essays in this section include analyses of poetic style and
borrowing; discussions of patterns of reading; and essays which
read Anglo-Latin works through their specific historical and
cultural contexts. Two of the essays are elegant translations of
significant Anglo-Latin poetic works. The final section of the
book, Influence and Survival, offers three essays which consider
Anglo-Latin literature in the late medieval and post-medieval
world, from an edition of a Latin source for a late Middle English
saint's life; through an account of the migration of Latin texts
into the royal libraries of Henry VIII; to the concluding essay,
which explores a mechanical means of producing perfect Latin
hexameter. A complete bibliography of Rigg's works closes the
volume. The chronological and methodological range of the essays in
this collection is offered as afitting tribute to one of
Anglo-Latin's most learned and indefatigable scholars.
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