The Disputatio chori et praetextati
Subtitle: the Roman calendar for beginners
By: Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Contributors: Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius; Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius; National University of Ireland, Galway; International Conference on the Science of Computus in Ireland and Europe (3rd : 2010 : Galway, Ireland)
Series: Studia traditionis theologiae -- 32; Studia traditionis theologiae -- 32.
Publisher: Brepols
Published: 2019
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng; lat
Number of pages: 141
ISBN-13: 9782503584232
Copyright date: 2019
Subjects: Roman Calendar; History; Saturnalia (Macrobius, Ambrosius Aurelius Theodosius)
Other titles: Roman calendar for beginners
Description: Back cover: The first book of Macrobius' Saturnalia, written probably in the 430s AD, includes a historical exposition of the Roman calendar with a dramatic date some fifty years earlier, set in the mouth of the learned senator Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, followed by more technical detail at the request of an Egyptian named Horus, who as a foreigner is allowed to seek elementary information for which no one brought up in Roman culture would need to ask. This text was excerpted in early medieval Ireland, with some but by no means all its pagan matter excised, to provide an introduction for those who at best understood the rules of this recent import but not the rationale for them; it is quoted by Bede as Disputatio Chori et Praetextati, Chorus being a corrupted form of Horus. The excerpt took on a textual life of its own, which the present edition, the first devoted to the Disputatio rather than Macrobius, seeks to clarify; it examines the manuscripts and the relations between them, presents a critical edition with apparatus criticus and translation, and attaches a full-scale commentary concerned above all with the information provided in the text.
Notes: "This edition originated in a paper given at the Third International Conference on the Science of Computus convened at the National University of Ireland, Galway, by Dáibhí Ó Cróinín in July 2010"--Page vii.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 39-47) and indexes.

Original text in Latin with parallel English translation; critical matter in English.