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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.
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