Poetry and exegesis in premodern Latin Christianity : the encounter between classical and Christian strategies of interpretation / / edited by Willemien Otten & Karla Pollmann.

• Superior document: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 87
• TeilnehmendeR: Otten, Willemien.; Pollmann, Karla.
• Year of Publication: 2007
• Language: English
• Series: Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae ; v. 87.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (378 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

This volume investigates various exegetical possibilities in Christian Latin poetry during Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages. In the Latin West poetry was mainly associated with the powerful pagan tradition of writers like Vergil and Ovid, and by many poetry was considered to tell lies and provide...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary material / W. Otten and K. Pollmann
• Introduction / W. Otten and K. Pollmann
• Augustine and poetic exegesis / H.J. Westra
• Quid facit cum Horatio Hieronymus? Christian latin poetry and scriptural poetics / M. Vessey
• Time and the integrity of poetry: Ambrose and Augustine / M.B. Pranger
• The evangeliorum libri of Juvencus: Exegesis by stealth? / R.P.H. Green
• Cantatur ad delectationem: Ambrose’s lyric poetry / J. Den Boeft
• Technological innovation and poetical exegesis: The glass lamp in Prudentius’Cathemerinon 5 / J. Clarke
• The Carmen ad uxorem and the genre of the Epithalamium / R. Chiappiniello
• Principles of structure and unity in latin biblical epic / M. Hoffmann
• Interpreting cultural change: Semiotics and exegesis in Dracontius’de Laudibus Dei / A. Arweiler
• Exegesis by distorting pagan myths in Corippus’ epic poetry / Ch.O. Tommasi Moreschini
• Reflections on the meaning of the Ecloga Theoduli: Where is the authorial voice? / M. Herren
• Epic poetry as exegesis: ‘The song of the good war’ (Eupolemius) / K. Smolak
• The poetics of biblical tragedy in Abelard’s Planctus / W. Otten and K. Pollmann
• Biblical poetry in latin liturgical texts / A.A.R. Bastiaensen
• The saint as preacher. Remarks on a rare motif in late antique and medieval poetry / H. Müller
• Poetry and suffering: Metrical paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyons’ Passio Acaunensium Martyrum / W. Otten and K. Pollmann
• Biblical versifications from late antiquity to the middle of the thirteenth century: History or allegory? / G. Dinkova-Bruun
• Index nominum / W. Otten and K. Pollmann
• Index rerum / W. Otten and K. Pollmann
• Index locorum / W. Otten and K. Pollmann
• Supplements to Vigiliae Christianae / W. Otten and K. Pollmann.