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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2022) 52 (2): 313–334.
Published: 01 May 2022
...Brett Mottram Studies on the Renaissance reception of Virgil as an epic, georgic, and bucolic poet typically overshadow Virgil’s reception as an author of light, ludic verse. In 1428, Maffeo Vegio (1407–1458) wrote his Supplementum to Virgil’s Aeneid , an earnest attempt to complete the revered...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2002) 32 (2): 343–374.
Published: 01 May 2002
... There is a good modern critical edition by Keith Cameron (Geneva: Droz, 1988);
however, the title is abbreviated to Recepte Veritable.
48 The image of the trees as houses for birds is in Virgil, Georgic ii, line 209; see Virgil,
Eclogues, Georgics, Aeneid I–VI, trans. H. Rushton, Loeb Classical...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 639–641.
Published: 01 September 2015
... in Early Modern
Convents 53 – 77
Terpstra, Nicholas
Body Politics: The Criminal Body between Public and Private 7 – 52
Trettien, Whitney
Isabella Whitney’s Slips: Textile Labor, Gendered Authorship, and the
Early Modern Miscellany 505 – 521
Usher, Penelope Meyers
“Pricking in Virgil”: Early...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (2): 225–259.
Published: 01 May 2023
.... The cartographic elements in these classical texts have recently been brought to scholarly attention by Alfred Hiatt, who examines depictions of the antipodes in assorted textual traditions, including medieval commentaries on Virgil's and Ovid's poetry. Hiatt sees these depictions functioning as visual glosses...
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Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2023) 53 (3): 641–655.
Published: 01 September 2023
... of both Western and Christian ideals.] Day, Matthew. English Humanism and the Reception of Virgil, c. 1400–1550 . Oxford English Monographs. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2023. 240 pp. Hardcover, ebook. Davies, Jonathan, and John Monfasani, eds. Renaissance Politics and Culture: Essays...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (1): 173–195.
Published: 01 January 2010
... dispatched by
Pallas in Book 10 of Virgil’s Aeneid. As D. C. Feeney notes, the Thebaid is
a poem intensely concerned with its own belatedness in relation to previous
epic literature. Developing as a “bloated and highly self-conscious adapta-
tion of Virgil’s delaying tactics in the last three books...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 211–246.
Published: 01 May 2000
... and not of
the temporal condition of the empire when he said:
While the house of Aneas, the Capitol, remains upon that
immovable foundation, the Roman father rules supreme.22
Making Virgil into a prophet of Christianity, Petrarch establishes a histor-
ical link between Aeneas and the pope...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2015) 45 (3): 443–456.
Published: 01 September 2015
... of texts with her consideration of the sortes Virgili-
anae, a practice that involves opening a bound copy of Virgil and finding
prophecy or advice in the verse upon which the eye lands. Myers argues that
the practice “found a natural — yet distinct — place in the Renaissance cul-
ture of pragmatic...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2012) 42 (1): 225–244.
Published: 01 January 2012
... H. Virgil the Blind Guide: Marking the Way through “The
Divine Comedy.” Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2010. xiii,
247 pp. $95.00.
Kay, Tristan, Martin McLaughlin, and Michelangelo Zaccarello, eds.
Dante in Oxford: The Paget Toynbee Lectures. London: Legenda, Modern
Humanities...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (2): 347–371.
Published: 01 May 2010
...). Within
this gesture, however, the association of poetic with sexual, political, and military
conquest is made clear.
21 In Virgil’s Eclogue VIII, the speaker asks his patron to “Accept the songs essayed at
your bidding, and grant that, amid the conqueror’s laurels, this ivy may creep...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2000) 30 (2): 375–399.
Published: 01 May 2000
... But this thesis is not entirely persuasive: it is true that
excuse of “classical precedent” was not uncommon in the period—in one now
commonly adduced incident, Richard Barnfield responded to criticisms of his
representation of same-sex desire in his sonnets by declaring that he was merely
following Virgil...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2014) 44 (1): 187–213.
Published: 01 January 2014
... on the
grass, alas.” See Gertrude Stein and Virgil Thompson, Four Saints in Three Acts: An
Opera, vocal score (New York: Music Press, 1948). Until I encountered Marie de
l’Incarnation (beatified but still not canonized in 1980), I did not understand that
aria. The actual saints represented...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2010) 40 (3): 559–592.
Published: 01 September 2010
... of authority.”22 Cicero and Seneca had been
the main sources of information about Epicurean ideas before the recov-
ery of De rerum natura in 1417: the poem gradually became established on
humanist reading lists without ever attaining the popularity of Virgil and
Ovid, in great part because...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2017) 47 (2): 221–253.
Published: 01 May 2017
..., The Seven Sages of Rome, in its tale of the downfall of rich King
Croesus. In addition to being about the ruin of a famously wealthy man,
the tale begins with the “clerke” Virgil, said to have built an inextinguish-
able fire in the center of Rome at which “alle the pore men of the londe”
once warmed...
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Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2009) 39 (1): 65–94.
Published: 01 January 2009
... de Ocampo recorded an identical myth about the
origin of the Castilian kings.8
Cartagena cites Isidore of Seville’s Ethimologías, where Virgil’s
authority is adduced to support the claim that Britain was isolated, insular,
and marginal: “Y avnque aquella parte de ynglaterra que esta...
Journal Article
Journal of Medieval and Early Modern Studies (2021) 51 (1): 9–35.
Published: 01 January 2021
...- tions. While it draws on Virgil, Lucan, Prudentius, and Ovid, among other Latin authors, it is connected by its characters to a French epic cycle. It also displays the extraordinary violence common to chansons de geste, as when one hero cuts through horse and rider with a felicitous blow of his sword.60...
