On Grace
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Brepols Library of Christian Sources, vol. 19
- Pages: approx. 656 p.
- Size:156 x 234 mm
- Illustrations:12 col.
- Language(s):English, Latin
- Publication Year:2026
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-62007-7
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Critical edition and translation of Marbod's entire poetic corpus in a variety of genres, including love lyrics, friendship poems, saints' lives, satirical diatribes, and non-fictional works on rhetoric and stone lore.
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BIO
Marc Wolterbeek is Professor Emeritus of Notre Dame de Namur University, where he taught English and Latin and chaired the English Department for over three decades. He holds a PhD in comparative literature and medieval studies from the University of California, Berkeley, and he has written two books, 'Comic Tales of the Middle Ages' and 'The Gods Have Faces: The Biblical Epigrams and Short Poems of Hildebert of Lavardin.' He has also authored a number of articles, and delivered numerous papers on medieval literature and sequential art.
Summary
Marbod of Rennes is a major poet and renowned educator whose work occupies a seminal position in the resurgence of scholarship and the arts in the later Middle Ages, and for this reason he offers important insight into profound cultural transformations that led to the Twelfth Century Renaissance. During his long career, he composed poetry in a variety of genres, including love lyrics, friendship poems, saints' lives, satirical diatribes, and non-fictional works on rhetoric and stone lore.
Even though his accomplishments earned him widespread fame during this lifetime, his poetry has been poorly edited and rarely translated. This book aims to familiarize modern readers with this important writer by offering a critical edition and translation of his poetic corpus. The translations attempt to bring the reader as closely as possible to experiencing the poems in their original Latin while still being readable and comprehensible, facilitated by notes and commentary.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
Introduction
Love Poems
Attacks on Secular Love
Friendship Poems
Religious Poems:
Biblical Narratives (Old Testament)
Biblical Narratives (New Testament)
Hagiographies
Short Religious Poems
Satires
Occasional Poems
Epigrams and Epitaphs
Non-fictional Poems:
'Libellus de ornamentis verborum' ('De ornamentis verborum')
'Liber lapidum'
'Liber decem capitularum'
Poems of Questionable Authorship
Bibliography
Appendix 1: Textual Variants
Appendix 2: Illustrations
Index
Biblical Sources
Other Ancient Sources
Authors
Subjects
Poems Attributed to Marbod
Manuscripts Referred to or Used
