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The Moralized Ovid
Pierre Bersuire; Edited by Frank T. Coulson, Justin Haynes
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R810
Discovery Miles 8 100
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An influential medieval allegorical interpretation of the
Metamorphoses that uncovers the hidden moral truths of Ovid’s
stories, translated into English for the first time. Written in
about 1340 in Avignon by the Benedictine preacher Pierre Bersuire,
The Moralized Ovid—commonly referred to by its Latin title,
Ovidius moralizatus, to distinguish it from the anonymous French
vernacular Ovide moralisé—was arguably the most influential
interpretation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses in the High Middle Ages.
It circulated widely in manuscript form and was frequently printed
during the Renaissance. Originally intended as a sourcebook of
exempla for preachers’ sermons, The Moralized Ovid provides not
only a window into the reception of classical literature in the
fourteenth century but also amazingly vivid details of daily life
in the Middle Ages across all strata of society. The work begins
with a detailed description of the Greco-Roman gods, inspired in
part by Bersuire’s friend and fellow proponent of classical
poetry, Francesco Petrarch. It then retells selected major myths
from Ovid’s Metamorphoses, each followed by numerous allegorical
interpretations that draw from biblical stories, contemporary
events, and the natural world. This edition presents the first full
English translation alongside an authoritative Latin text.
When does imitation of an author morph into masquerade? Although
the Roman writer Ovid died in the first century CE, many new Latin
poems were ascribed to him from the sixth until the fifteenth
century. Like the Appendix Vergiliana, these verses reflect
different understandings of an admired Classical poet and expand
his legacy throughout the Middle Ages. The works of the "medieval
Ovid" mirror the dazzling variety of their original. The Appendix
Ovidiana includes narrative poetry that recounts the adventures of
both real and imaginary creatures, erotic poetry that wrestles with
powerful desires and sexual violence, and religious poetry
that-despite the historical Ovid's paganism-envisions the birth,
death, and resurrection of Christ. This is the first comprehensive
collection and English translation of these pseudonymous medieval
Latin poems.
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