Classical Influences on European Culture A.D. 500–1500

by R. R. Bolgar

• ISBN13: 9780521118132
• ISBN10: 0521118131
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2009-08-06
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Summary

This volume consists of original papers first read at Kings College, Cambridge, in 1969 at the International Conference on Classical Influences. The contributors are distinguished in a wide range of academic disciplines but all are concerned in one way or another with the spread and influence of classical, particularly Roman, civilisation through a number of European cultures from AD 500 to 1500. The book begins with the manuscript tradition - the contents, location and history of the literary remains that provide the basic evidence on which all research in this subject must to some extent rely. This leads naturally to a discussion of what classical texts were actually read and studied, when, where and by whom. The majority of contributors go on to examine the Roman tradition as a positive cultural on language, literature, philosophy and art. Classical civilisation is shown to be a live historical force whose survival consists rather in the creative responses and developments it has inspired than in the mere preservation of its physical relics.

Table of Contents

Preface

Editors note

Illustrations

Acknowledgements

Contributors

Introduction: a way ahead?

Latin Manuscripts and their Catalogues

Vanishing and unavailable evidence: Latin manuscripts in the Middle Ages and today

L'Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes et l'etude des manuscrits des auteurs classiques

The Readers and Fortunes of Classical Manuscripts

The classics in Celtic

The deposit of Latin classics in the twelfth-century renaissance

I primi umanisti e l'antichita classica

Ausonius in the fourteenth century

Oliviero Forzetta e la diffusione dei testi classici nel Veneto al tempo del

Methods of Teaching and Scholarship

Living with the

La lecture des auteurs classiques a l'ecole de Chartres durant la premiere moitie du XIIe siecle

The Opus de Conscribendis Epistolis of Erasmus and the tradition of the Ars

Humanism and humanist literature in the Low Countries before 1500

The character of humanist philology

The Influence of Classical Literature

La Survie comparee des Confessions augustiniennes et de la Consolation boecienne

Classical influence on early Norse literature

Poetic rivalries at the court of

Functions of classical borrowing in medieval Latin verse

Sallust in the Middle Ages

Momus and the nature of Humanism

Toni ed echi ovidiani nella poesia di Giano

The Influence of Classical Ideas

Later Platonism and its influences

Le commentaire ordonne du monde dans quelques sommes scientifiques des XIIe et XIIIe siecles

Petrarch and the transmission of classical elements

Aspetti della vita contemplativa nel rinascimento itlaiano

The conformity of Greek and the vernacular

Classical Themes Common to Literature and Art and Classical Influences in Architecture

Personification

Criticism and praise of the Pantheon in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance

Quattrocento architecture and the antique: some problems

Index

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