The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history.
Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of admiration,
it has found numerous detractors and defenders among classicists
and Latin literary critics. This volume explores the scholarly
approaches to late Latin poetry that have developed over the last
40 years, and it seeks especially to develop, complement and
challenge the seminal concept of the ‘Jeweled Style’ proposed
by Michael Roberts in 1989. While Roberts’s monograph has long
been a vade mecum within the world of late antique literary
studies, a critical reassessment of its validity as a concept is
overdue. This volume invites established and emerging scholars from
different research traditions to return to the influential
conclusions put forward by Roberts. It asks them to examine the
continued relevance of The Jeweled Style and to suggest new ways to
engage it. In a joint effort, the nineteen chapters of this volume
define and map the jeweled style, extending it to new genres,
geographic regions, time periods and methodologies. Each
contribution seeks to provide insightful analysis that integrates
the last 30 years of scholarship while pursuing ambitious
applications of the jeweled style within and beyond the world of
late antiquity.
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