Ovid in the Middle Ages

by Clark, James G.; Coulson, Frank T.; McKinley, Kathryn L.

• ISBN13: 9781107002050
• ISBN10: 1107002052
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-09-30
• Publisher: Cambridge Univ Pr

Summary

Ovid is perhaps the most important surviving Latin poet and his work has influenced writers throughout Europe to the present day. This volume presents a groundbreaking series of essays on his reception across Europe in the Middle Ages. The collection includes contributions from distinguished Ovidians as well as leading specialists in medieval Latin and vernacular literature, clerical and extra-clerical culture and medieval art, and addresses questions of manuscript and textual transmission, translation, adaptation and imitation. It also explores the intersecting cultural contexts of the schools (monastic and secular), courts and the literate lay households. It elaborates the scale and scope of the enthusiasm for Ovid in medieval Europe, following readers of the canon from the Carolingian monasteries to the early schools of the Atilde;Zcaron;le de France and on into clerical and curial milieus in Italy, Spain, the British Isles and even the Byzantine Empire.

Table of Contents

List of illustrations	p. vii
Notes on contributors	p. ix
Acknowledgements	p. xi
List of abbreviations	p. xii
Introduction	p. 1
Ovid's metempsychosis: The Greek East	p. 26
Ovid's Metamorphoses in the school tradition of France, 1180-1400: Texts, manuscript traditions, manuscript settings	p. 48
Recasting the Metamorphoses in fourteenth-century France: The challenges of the Ovide moralise	p. 83
Gender and desire in medieval French translations of Ovid's amatory works	p. 108
Ovid in medieval Italy	p. 123
Dante's Ovids	p. 143
Ovid from the pulpit	p. 160
Ovid in the monasteries: The evidence from late medieval England	p. 177
Gower and Chaucer: Readings of Ovid in late medieval England	p. 197
Ovid in medieval Spain	p. 231
A survey of imagery in medieval manuscripts of Ovid's Metamorphoses and related commentaries	p. 257
Shades of Ovid: Pseudo- (and para-) Ovidiana in the Middle Ages	p. 284
Appendix: Annotated list of selected Ovid manuscripts	p. 310
Bibliography	p. 318
Index locorum	p. 359
Index of manuscripts	p. 361
General index	p. 364
Foreword	p. vii
Translator's Introduction	p. xxii
Doing Justice in Explaining the Cause of Juristic Disagreement Al-Insaffi Bayan Sabab al-Ikhtilaf
Shah Wali Allah's Preface	p. 3
The Causes for the Disagreement of the Companions and Followers Concerning Positive Law (al-Furu')	p. 5
The Causes for Disagreement among the Legal Schools of the Jurists	p. 16
Causes for the Disagreement Between the People of the Hadith and Scholars Who Exercise Personal Opinion	p. 26
Account of Developments before the Fourth Century	p. 44
Account of Developments which Took Place After the Fourth Century	p. 60
Index of Qur'an and Hadith Citations	p. 73
Chaplet Regarding the Rules of ljtihdd and Taqlid 'Iqd al-JXd ftAhkam al-Ijtihad wa-l-Taqlid
Shah Wall Allah's Preface	p. 77
The true nature of Ijtihad and its Prerequisites and Types	p. 78
Juristic Disagreement among Mujtahids	p. 82
Reinforcing staying within the four legal schools and severe stricture against abandoning them or going outside of them	p. 96
Disagreements regarding following the four legal schools and the extent to which this is obligatory	p. 102
Maintaining Balance in Taqlid	p. 127
Index of Qur'an and Hadith Citations	p. 136
Bibliography	p. 139
General Index	p. 144
Names Index	p. 148
Works Cited by Shah Wall Allah Index	p. 150
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