If we view the Aeneid - the poem of empire, conquest, and male
hierarchy - as the West's quintessential canonical text and Latin
primer, then the history of Virgil readership should tell us much
about the concept of education in the West. In this book, Marilynn
Desmond reveals how a constructed and mediated tradition of reading
Virgil has conditioned various interpretations among readers
responding to medieval cultural and literary texts. In particular,
she shows how the story of Dido has been marginalized within
canonical readings of the "Aeneid". Reaching back to the Middle
Ages, to vernacular poetic readings of Dido, Desmond recovers an
alternative Virgil from historical tradition and provides another
paradigm for reading the "Aeneid". Desmond follows the figure of
Dido as she emerges from ancient historical and literary texts
(from Timaeus and Justin to Virgil and Ovid) and circulates in
medieval textual cultures. Her study ranges from the pedagogical
discourses of Latin textual traditions (including Servius,
Augustine, Bernard Silvestris, and John of Salisbury) to the French
and English vernacular cultures inscribed in the Roman d'Eneas, the
Histoire ancienne jusqu'a Cesar, and the work of Dante, Chaucer,
Gavin Douglas, Caxton, and Christine de Pizan. The positions of all
these readers point to the cultural specificity and historical
contingency of all traditions of reading. Thus, this book
demonstrates how medieval traditions of reading Dido offer the
modern reader a series of counter-traditions that support feminist,
anti-homophobic, and post-colonial interpretive gestures. A new
series sponsored by the Center for Medieval Studies at the
University of Minnesota. The volumes in this series study the
diversity of medieval cultural histories and practices including
such interrelated issues as gender, class, and social hierarchies,
race and ethnicity, geographical relations, definitions of
political space, discourses of authority and dissent, educational
institutions, canonical and non-canonical literatures, and
technologies of textual and visual literacies.
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