The works of the seventh-century writer Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
are among the most puzzling medieval texts to survive. Ostensibly a
pair of grammars, they swarm with hymns, riddles, invented words
and imaginary writers. Conventionally interpreted either as a
benighted barbarian's unfortunate attempt to write a 'proper'
grammar, or as a parody of the pedantic excesses of the ancient
grammatical tradition, these texts have long been in need of an
alternative reading. Why should a grammarian attack the very notion
of authority, thereby destabilizing his own position? The search
for an answer leads us via patristic exegesis and medieval wisdom
literature to the tantalizingly ill-documented reaches of heterodox
initiatory traditions. Vivien Law's book opens important new
perspectives on the intellectual life of the early Middle Ages and
on the decoding of medieval literature in general.
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