Latin love elegy and the dawn of the Ovidian age
Subtitle: a study of the Versus Eporedienses and the Latin classics
By: Marek Thue Kretschmer
Series: Publications of the Journal of medieval Latin -- 14; Publications of the Journal of medieval Latin -- 14.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Turnhout
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 175
ISBN-13: 9782503587035
Subjects: Latin Elegiac poetry; History and criticism; Erotic poetry, Latin (Medieval and modern); Latin poetry; Early works to 1800; Classical poetry; Latin Love poetry; Translations into English
Other titles: Latin love elegy and the dawn of the Ovidian age; Verses from Ivrea
Work titles: Versus Eporedienses
Description: "The Versus Eporedienses (Verses from Ivrea), written around the year 1080 and attributed to a certain Wido, is a highly fascinating elegiac love poem celebrating worldly pleasures in an age usually associated with contemptus mundi. One of the poem's intriguing features, its extensive use of the Latin classics, especially of Ovid, makes it a precursor of the poetry of the so-called twelfth-century renaissance. In this first book-length study of the poem, the author provides a historical contextualisation, a verse-by-verse commentary, a detailed analysis of the classical sources and a discussion of its similarities with contemporary and later medieval poetry."--
Notes: This book contains the Latin text with an English translation and commentary.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Text in Latin and English translation.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements --; title: Abbreviations --; title: Introduction --; title: Edition and translation --; title: Commentary --; title: Verse by verse commentary -- -- Appendix 1.; title: Sources of inspiration:; title: Classical Latin Poetry:; title: Ovid,; title: Vergil,; title: Juvenal,; title: Lucan,; title: Martial,; title: Statius,; title: Horace,; title: Ilias Latina,; title: Propertius,; title: Seneca,; title: Tibullus,; title: Canticum Canticorum,; title: Late Latin Poetry:; title: Quod natum Phoebus,; title: Prudentius,; title: Venantius Fortunatus,; title: Maximianus,; title: Medieval Latin poetry -- -- Appendix 2.; title: The Versus Eporedienses and the dawn of the twelfth century:; title: Wenric of Trier's Conflictus ovis et lini,; title: The poet of Asti's Novus Avianus,; title: Godfrey of Reims,; title: Baudri of Bourgueil -- -- Appendix 3.; title: Similarities and matches in twelfth- and thirteenth-century love poetry:; title: Z 49 (Dulcis amica mea); title: CR 26 (Si uera somnia); title: Hugh Primas (1093-c.1160); title: Carmina Burana; title: De tribus puellis; title: Bruma grando glacies; title: Fidus amicus here --; title: Bibliography:; title: Primary sources (Classical, Late Latin, Medieval) --; title: Secondary sources --; title: Index nominum --; title: Index codicum --; title: Index auctorum et carminum --; title: Index locorum similium --; title: Index locorum similium per ordinem auctorum et carminum digestus.