Includes bibliographical references (pages 351-394) and indexes.
Contents:
General Index. Abbreviations -- List of Illustrations -- Introduction -- Second Language Analysis -- The Women of the Old Testament in Early Medieval Poetry : Judith and the Others -- The Canon of Biblical Heroines in One Verse -- The Model of Avitus -- The Intercultural Foresight of Dracontius : Pagan and Christian Heroines -- The Other Judiths, from Aldhelm to Milo -- Instances in the Carolingian Age -- Exegetical Sources and Later Developments -- Other Biblical Heroines -- Ad Supplementum Sensus : Hermeneutic Plurality and Increase in Meaning in Biblical Poetics from the Middle Ages to Derrida -- The End of Exclusion -- Medieval Precursors -- Ineffability and Allegory -- The Legitimacy of a Heteronomous Aesthetic -- A Repressed Beauty : Biblical Poetics and the Legitimisation of Poetry in Medieval Culture -- The Exclusion of Poetry from the Medieval Cultural System -- Foundations of a Possible Legitimisation : The Symbolism of Eriugena and Chartres -- The Anomaly of Biblical Poetry -- Exegetical Poetry and the Rhetoric of Otherness (The modus symbolicus) -- Double-Level Poetics -- Technicalities of Exegetical Beauty -- Multifigurality -- Poetry about the Exegetical Process -- Implicit Poetics and Explicit Theories -- Reticere nefas : The Poetics of Communication in the Carolingian Age -- The Poetry of Writing -- The Poetry of Scripture -- The Invocation of the Reader and the Circle of Communication -- Relational Poetry -- A Lexical Journey through Alcuin's Poetry -- Witnesses and Judgements -- The Editions -- Tradition and Innovation in Poetic Genres and Themes : A Lexical Journey (The Historical-Hagio-graphical Poem : Regnum and pietas-Epigraphical Poetry : Domus, viator-Lyrical poetry) -- Some Linguistic Features of Popular Songs in Medieval and Modern Times -- The Ritual Aspect -- Anisosyllabism -- Music-Text Relationship -- Alterations of Accentuation -- Combined Presence of Archaisms and Linguistic Vulgarisms -- Development of an Internal Tradition -- Plurality of Versions -- Versus ad picturas in the Carolingian Age -- History of the Genre -- The Carolingian Era and the Problem of Images -- Carolingian Typologies -- The Cycles of the Great Bibles of Tours -- Appendix : Vivian's Bible, Poetic Captions (Selection) -- Verse Historiography in the Carolingian Era : The Political Typology of the Ingelheim Paintings -- The Studies -- The Political Use of Biblical References -- The Poeta Saxo -- Ermold -- The Biblical Cycle -- The Cycle of Power -- The Meaning of the Paintings -- The Sense of Time in Carolingian Poetry : Horologium nocturnum and the Christian Zodiac in Pacificus of Verona -- The Inscription of Verona -- The Horologium Nocturnum -- Avranches -- Chartres -- Vatican -- Paris 12117 and the Link with the Astrolabe -- Sense of Time and Stellar Observation in the Middle Ages Computistical Verse -- Appendix : Pacificus's Epitaph -- Everyday Life in the Literary Inscriptions of the Carolingian Monastery -- The Matter of Poetic Epigraphy -- Carolingian Monastic Epigraphy : Saint-Riquier -- Epitaphs -- Vestments and Furniture -- Locales -- The Role of Alcuin -- New Forms of Verse Collections in the Carolingian Laboratory -- Late Antiquity -- The Carolingian Ages : Authors' Collections -- Local Collections -- Epigraphical Collections -- Biblical Anthologies -- Poetic Anthologies -- Appendix -- The Modern Success and Medieval Marginality of Modoin of Autun's Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa -- The Meaning of Anonymity -- Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa (KMLP) -- Editions and Studies -- The Problem of Dating and Completeness -- The Author -- New Developments in the Research -- Hypotheses about the Author -- Medieval Authority -- Appendix -- A 'Post-Colonial' Approach to Medieval Latin Literature? -- Carolingian Cases -- Extensions -- Second Language Analysis -- Bibliography -- Sources -- Literature -- Indices -- Manuscripts -- Websites -- General Index.
Summary:
This book presents samples of experimental methods for reading medieval Latin texts that have scarcely been adopted, if at all, by mainstream research in the field. It contributes to the discovery of some underestimated aspects of early medieval (especially Carolingian) Latin literature: intertextuality as intercultural relationship (in Biblical epic), intermediality (text-image-sound connections), interdisciplinarity (science, religion, and poetry), hermeneutics (Biblical exegesis as poetry-engine), post-colonial reading (medieval Latin as a second language), socio-literary approaches (monastic epigraphs as witnesses of everyday life, writing as a status symbol of an intellectual class and a whole civilization). It also discusses quantitative methods, which are explored in more detail in a second volume, 'Digital Philology and Quantitative Criticism of Medieval Literature: Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature II'). The book thus seeks to encourage scholarly interest in obscure or less familiar elements of the Carolingian literary renewal, interpreted here as more a laboratory of innovations than a revival of traditional patterns.
Series:
Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, 2034-9416 ; 48
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