Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring The Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) Book + PRICE WATCH * Amazon pricing is not included in price watch

Virgil in Medieval England: Figuring The Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer (Cambridge Studies in Medieval Literature) Book

What happens when a prestigious text of one period is read and re-used in a different, much later period? Taking as his model Virgil's ancient epic poem The Aeneid, Christopher Baswell shows how manuscripts which were re-used and re-annotated reveal widely differing approaches to the epic on the part of their users, and how medieval vernacular versions such as the Roman d'Eneas and Chaucer's House of Fame and Legend of Good Women make use of Virgil's prestige as a way of laying their own claim to poetic and even political authority.Read More

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  • 052102708X
  • 9780521027083
  • Christopher Baswell
  • 22 June 2006
  • Cambridge University Press
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 460
  • New Ed
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