The Relatio metrica de duobus ducibus
Subtitle: a twelfth-century Cluniac poem on prayer for the dead
By: Christopher A. Jones and Scott G. Bruce
Contributors: Médiathèque Voyelles (Charleville-Mézières, France)
Series: Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin -- 10; Publications of the Journal of medieval Latin -- 10.
Publisher: Brepols Publishers
Published: 2016
Place of publication: Turnhout, Belgium
Language: eng
Number of pages: 216
ISBN-13: 9782503568270
Subjects: Translations into English; Medieval and modern Latin poetry; History and criticism; Latin Religious poetry; Sources; Prayers for the dead; History; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern); Medieval Manuscripts; Mortality in literature; Relatio metrica de duobus ducibus; Médiathèque Voyelles (Charleville-Mézières, France)
Other titles: Relatio metrica de duobus ducibus.; Relatio metrica de duobus ducibus. English.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Acknowledgements; title: Abbreviations -- Introduction; title: Abbot Maiolus and the cult of the dead at cluny --; title: The latin prose exemplum of the two dukes --; title: The manuscript of the relatio metrica --; title: Patterns in the poet's adaptations of the prose source --; title: The conditions of purgative suffering after death --; title: The morality of war and of the warrior class --; title: Elaborative allusions to the Old Testament and classical literature --; title: Biblical allusions --; title: Classical allusions --; title: Versification and language --; title: Prosody --; title: Rhyme --; title: Disposition of dactyls and spondees --; title: Hiatus, elision, and caesuras --; title: Final clausulae --; title: Vocabulary and idiom --; title: Syntax --; title: The poet's literary sources --; title: Classical and patristic latin literature --; title: Eleventh- and twelfth-century verse --; title: Bernard of cluny --; title: Other poetic sources of the later eleventh and twelfth centuries --; title: The authorship of the relatio metrica --; title: A work by Bernardus scriba? --; title: Bernardus scriba and Bernard of cluny --; title: Principles of the edition, translation, and commentary --; title: Edition and translation --; title: Commentary --; title: Appendix : the prose relatio de duobus ducibus (long version) ---- Bibliography-- Indices-- Index of biblical passages cited in the commentary-- Index of primary sources and parallels cited in the commentary-- General index.