Early Medieval Glosses on Prudentius' Psychomachia

The Weitz Tradition
Erscheinungsjahr 2004
ISBN: 978-90-04-13804-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 31, 384 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 839 g

Reihe: Mittellateinische Studien und Texte

This book focuses on the glosses on Prudentius’ Psychomachia as found in the German or Weitz manuscript tradition. These glosses provide a fascinating window to the intellectual world of the late Carolingian and Ottonian periods. Introducing the reader to the rudiments of Christian exegesis and encyclopaedic information, they represent an important moment in the history of early medieval thought and instruction. In the book attention is redirected from the philological concerns of conventional glossing studies toward mainstream intellectual history. The first part examines the manuscripts, function and sources of the glosses. The second part provides an introduction to the edition, together with a diplomatic transcription of the Latin and German annotations in three Weitz manuscripts.

Autoren/Hrsg.

O'Sullivan, Sinéad

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgements
List of abbreviations
List of Manuscripts and Abbreviations
Introduction

Part One

Chapter One Prudentius in the Carolingian and Ottonian Worlds
Chapter Two The Weitz Glosses and Manuscripts

Section Two The Weitz Manuscripts
Chapter Three The Function of the Weitz Glosses
Chapter Four The Sources of the Weitz Glosses
Conclusion

Part Two

Editorial Principles
Edition
Appendix to the Edition
Bibliography
Index of Manuscripts
General Index

Über Autor(innen)

Sinéad O’Sullivan, D.Phil (1999) in History, University of Oxford, is National University of Ireland Postdoctoral Fellow, University College Dublin. She has published on Aldhelm’s De Virginitate. Her research concentrates on early medieval intellectual history with a particular focus on glossing.