Through a Classical Eye

by Galloway, Andrew; Yeager, R. F.

• ISBN13: 9780802099174
• ISBN10: 0802099173
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-04-01
• Publisher: Univ of Toronto Pr

Summary

As students and scholars of Boccaccio, Chaucer, and Dante know, late medieval writers were influenced greatly by the work of peers that crossed historical, national, cultural, linguistic boundaries. Through a Classical Eye contains first-rate essays that demonstrate a range of strategies for undertaking transcultural and transhistorical studies of the late medieval period, and examines medieval literature and culture where English, Italian, and Latin materials overlap.Written in honour of the groundbreaking contributions that Winthrop Wetherbee made to this growing area of study, the volume's contributors advance his legacy and add to the burgeoning interest in setting medieval literary studies into wide intellectual and historical horizons. Divided into three illuminating sections on Medieval Latin authorship, Italy and the world, and England and beyond, and including a personal reminiscence of Wetherbee by the noted novelist Robert Morgan, Through a Classical Eye is an outstanding collection that provides key insights into medieval literature and culture.

Table of Contents

Introduction
The School of Wetherbee	p. 3
Winthrop Wetherbee: A Bibliography of Scholarship, 1969-2008	p. 19
Auctores
Catullus among the Christians	p. 27
Hisperic Faminations	p. 44
Silverstris: 'Silva': 'Selva oscura'	p. 69
Alain of Lille's Use of 'Naufragium' in De Planctu Naturae	p. 86
Italy and the World
Medieval Intellectual Biography: The Case of Guido Faba	p. 109
Europe and Rome: Spectacle and Geometry of Justice, Paradiso XVIII-XX	p. 125
From Simile to Prologue: Geography as Link in Dante, Petrarch, Chaucer	p. 145
Boccaccio's Greek Philology: A Rediscovered Country	p. 165
Saladin and the Truth of Religion in Decameron I. 3 and X. 9	p. 189
Griselde before Chaucer: Love between Men, Women, and Farewell Art	p. 207
England and Beyond
New Science, Old Dance: The Clerk and the Wife of Bath at Philology	p. 223
Another 'Loller in the wynd'? The Miller, the Bible, and the Destruction of Doors	p. 239
Chaucer's Englishing of Latin Wordplay	p. 267
Once More into the Breech: The Pardoner's Prize 'Relyk'	p. 287
Windows and Wounds in Fragment I of the Canterbury Tales	p. 316
The Voice of an Exile: From Ovidian Lament to Prophecy in Book I of John Gower's Vox Clamantis	p. 339
Gower and Ovid: Pygmalion and the (Dis) illusion of the World	p. 363
Blowing Blindness in Cleanness (line 885)	p. 381
The Economy of Involucrum: Idleness in Reason and Sensuality	p. 390
Afternote
Thirty Years of Lunches	p. 415
Contributors	p. 419
Index	p. 421
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