The Eneados: Gavin Douglas's Translation of Virgil's Aeneid [3 Volume Set]

Three-Volume Set
Erscheinungsjahr 2022
ISBN: 978-1-897976-45-6
Verlag: Boydell & Brewer

Buch, Englisch, 1200 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 156 mm x 234 mm, Gewicht: 2145 g

Reihe: Scottish Text Society Fifth Series

This 3 volume set represents a new edition, with introduction, commentary, and revised text, of one of the most important medieval poems.

Although Virgil's Aeneid was one of the most widely admired works of the European Middle Ages, the first complete translation to appear in any form of English was Gavin Douglas's magisterial verse rendering into Older Scots, completed in 1513, which he called the "Eneados". It included not only the twelve books of Virgil's original, but a thirteenth added by the Italian humanist scholar Maphaeus Vegius, and lively, original prologues to every book. D.F.C. Coldwell's four-volume modern edition of it was published in 1957-64 for the Scottish Text Society, but for some time now has needed revision.


Professor Bawcutt's new edition, based on Cambridge, Trinity College Library MS O.3.12, presents a substantially revised and corrected version of Coldwell's text and variants. The first volume contains the introduction and commentary. offereing a wealth of new scholarship on the Eneados ,including a comparison of Douglas's text to his exact Latin source, detailed analyses of the manuscript and print witnesses and the Eneados's early reception and circulation, and a critical survey of modern Douglas criticism. The second and third volumes contains the text and variants.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Bawcutt, Priscilla

Cunningham, Ian

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Europäische Literatur

Über Autor(innen)

Bawcutt, Priscilla
PRISCILLA BAWCUTT, honorary professor at the University of Liverpool, was one of the most distinguished contemporary scholars of Older Scots. She edited The Poems of William Dunbar for the Association of Scottlish Literary Studies (1997/8), and The Shorter Poems of Gavin Douglas for the Scottish Text Society (revised 2003); she has written very widely and deeply on all aspects of Older Scots literature, includingher foundational study, Gavin Douglas (1976). IAN C. CUNNINGHAM, former Keeper of Manuscripts at the National Library of Scotland, has published extensively on Latin and Older Scots manuscripts, and edited and translated Theophrastus