This volume presents new perspectives on the sources, transmission, and reception of Anglo-Latin poetry, ca. 650–1100.
In the wake of recent seminal studies on Aldhelm, these essays collectively explore the wider poetic tradition, spanning the Late Antique inheritance through to the eleventh century. By encompassing select studies of both major and lesser-known authors, sources, and works, the volume can present new understandings of the multifaceted intellectual culture that gave rise to this unique and vibrant literary period. It engages with the medium of poetry, including manuscript culture, historical and intellectual backgrounds, and the epigraphic traditions; and highlights idiosyncratic style, metre, poetic diction, and formulas.
The Anglo-Latin poetic tradition is notoriously and deliberately challenging, but this accessible collection yields rich new insights from emerging and established Anglo-Latin scholars.
- COVER
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- A Note on the CLASP Project
- Acknowledgements
- Abbreviations
- Colleen M. Curran – Introduction
- Claudia Di Sciacca – 1. “I” is for Isidore
- Richard Hillier– 2. “ibimus ambo simul quo pagina uenerit ista”
- Grace Attwood – 3. Blebomen agialos
- Cameron Scott Laird – 4. Aldhelm’s Aenigmata and the Teaching of Latin Prosody
- John Joseph Gallagher – 5. Rewriting the Psalter
- Christopher Scheirer – 6. Carmina spoliata
- Frederick M. Biggs – 7. Bede’s Address to Acca in the Versus de die iudicii
- Tristan Major – 8. Frithegod and Stephen
- General Bibliography
- Index
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