History and literature in late antiquity and the early medieval West : studies in intertextuality
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History and literature in late antiquity and the early medieval West : studies in intertextuality
（Collected studies series, CS495）
Ashgate/Variorum, c1995
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"This volume contains xiv + 301 pages"--P. vi
Includes bibliographical references and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
This work sets out the ways in which late antiquity and early medieval authors were shaped intellectually by a wide range of sources, many now unfamiliar to modern readers. It also covers the manner in which the texts accessed by such writers were themselves taken over or recast in various ways.
Table of Contents
- Part 1 Gildas: Gildas's geographical perspective - some problems
- Gildas's prose style and its origins
- a note on Gildas's "Lanio fulve"
- did Gildas read Orosius?
- Gildas's reading - a survey
- Rufinus, Gregory of Nazianzus and Gildas. Part 2 Texts and intertextuality: Arator's use of Caelius Sedulius - a re-examination
- the "Hisperica Famina" and Caelius Sedulius
- some further Vergilian borrowings in Breton hagiography of the Carolingian period
- knowledge of Christian Latin poets and historians in early medieval Brittany
- Bede and Virgil
- imitation of the poems of Paulinus of Nola in early Anglo-Latin verse
- imitation of the poems of Paulinus of Nola in early Anglo-Latin verse - a postscript
- Aldhelm, Gildas, and Acircius
- Alfred burned the cakes - the "Vita prima sancti Neoti, telesinus", and Juvenal.
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