First major study of the representation of Minerva in the Middle
Ages, giving insights into classical reception. Images of Minerva,
the Roman goddess of wisdom, appear frequently in medieval
literature, derived from antique culture and literature;
redemptress, mistress of the liberal arts, patroness of princes,
idol, and Venus' ally. Throughout the high to late Middle Ages,
Peter Abelard, Guido delle Colonne, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer,
and Christine de Pizan, among others, drew on and developed these
images, but they are particularly prevalent in a number of
fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century English and Scots
allegorical and dream-vision poems, including John Lydgate's Reson
and Sensuallyte and Temple of Glas, the anonymous Court of Sapience
and Assembly of Gods, James I's Kingis Quair, Charles d'Orleans'
Fortunes Stabilnes, and William Dunbar's Golden Targe. This book
offers the first full-length examination of these depictions,
bringing out the receptionof classical culture. Via close readings
of the various poets, it enables us to understand how her figure
was used, and also, and most importantly, to interpret and
transform the poetic and cultural traditions from which she
springs. WILLIAM F. HODAPP is Professor of English and Coordinator
of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The College of St.
Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota.
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