Accounts and Accountability in Late Medieval Europe
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Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy, vol. 48
The Carolingian Revolution
Unconventional Approaches to Medieval Latin Literature I
Francesco Stella
- Pages: xviii + 412 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Illustrations:40 b/w, 4 tables b/w.
- Language(s):English
- Publication Year:2021
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Presents samples of experimental methods for reading medieval Latin texts, especially Carolingian literature.
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"These two volumes offer both general and specialist accounts of medieval Latin, with emphasis on the technical innovations of the Carolingian era, and their counterparts in modern instruments of scholarship. The focus on Carolingian poetics in Volume I gives book history a critical centrality, greater even than classical reception, in the aesthetic principles that animated the poetry of that era. In Volume II, Stella's thoughtful analyses of DH methods and typologies of its problematics provide welcome insights into the intellectual implications of digital technologies brought to bear on a manuscript culture." (Rita Copeland, in: The Journal of Medieval Latin 32, 2022, p. 277-279)
BIO
Francesco Stella, member of the Academia Europaea, is professor of Medieval Latin Literature at the University of Siena and head of the Master program in Digital Edition. The author of essays and monographs on Carolingian literature, Biblical poetry, and 12-13th century epistolography, he coordinates some of the first research projects on digital philology of medieval Latin texts, and directs the series Scrittori latini dell’Europa medievale and Hagiographica Coreana.
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): http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503588018-1.
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.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Preface
Chapter 1. Intercultural Imitation in Christian Latin Poetry as a Path to the Medieval Poetics of Alterity
Chapter 2. The Women of the Old Testament in Early Medieval Poetry: Judith and the Others
Chapter 3. Ad supplementum sensus: Hermeneutic Plurality and Increase in Meaning in Biblical Poetics from the Middle Ages to Derrida
Chapter 4. A Repressed Beauty: Biblical Poetics and the Legitimisation of Poetry in Medieval Culture
Chapter 5. The Poetics of Communication in the Carolingian Age
Chapter 6. A Lexical Journey through Alcuin’s Poetry
Chapter 7. Some Linguistic Features of Popular Songs in Medieval and Modern Times
Chapter 8. Versus ad picturas in the Carolingian Era
Chapter 9. Verse Historiography in the Carolingian Era: The Political Typology of Ingelheim Paintings
Chapter 10. The Sense of Time in Carolingian Poetry: Christianising the Zodiac and Astronomical Observation in Pacificus of Verona
Chapter 11. Literary Epigraphy in the Carolingian Monastery
Chapter 12. Carolingian Verse Collections
Chapter 13. The Modern Success and Medieval Marginality of Modoin of Autun’s Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa
Chapter 14. A ‘Postcolonial’ Approach to Medieval Latin Literature?
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