Latin Culture in the Eleventh Century
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Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, vol. 22
Anglo-Latin Minor Poems, c. 670 CE – c. 1100 CE
Michael Lapidge
- Pages:2 vols, approx. 1300 p.
- Size:178 x 254 mm
- Language(s):Latin, English, Greek
- Publication Year:2026
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- ISBN: 978-2-503-62441-9
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An anthology of metrical, rhythmical, and sequence Latin poems from early medieval England, many previously unpublished, offering fresh insight into the teaching of Latin and poetry.
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Michael Lapidge is Elrington-Bosworth Professor of Anglo-Saxon emeritus, University of Cambridge, Fellow of the British Academy, Corresponding Fellow of the Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften and of the Accademia dei Lincei. He has edited or written fifty books and more than 250 articles, including, for Brepols, Canterbury Glosses from the School of Theodore and Hadrian: The Leiden Glossary.
Summary
These volumes offer the first comprehensive critical edition of all extant Latin verse composed in early medieval England by poets—mostly anonymous—who fall outside the traditional canon of “major” authors such as Aldhelm, Bede, Alcuin, and Wulfstan. Bringing together 340 poems ranging from single-line epigrams to substantial compositions of over 700 lines, these volumes encompass 225 metrical poems (primarily in classical hexameters and elegiac couplets, but also including iambic dimeter, sapphic stanzas, and other meters), 82 rhythmical poems, and 33 sequences, many of which are edited and translated here for the first time.
Each poem is presented with a facing-page English translation, full critical apparatus and commentary detailing sources, metrical features, linguistic and stylistic issues, and historical or cultural significance. Collectively, the poems provide fresh insight into the curriculum of early medieval schools, the reception of Classical and Christian-Latin authors, and the evolution of poetic technique in England across more than four centuries.
