The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature
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The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature by Ralph Hexter
The twenty-eight essays in this handbook represent the best current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. Contributing authors--both senior scholars and gifted younger thinkers among them--not only illuminate the field as traditionally defined but also offer fresh insights into broader questions of literary history, cultural interaction, world literature, and language in history and society. Their studies vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of topics, including canonicity, literary styles and genres, and the materiality of manuscript culture. At the same time, they suggest future possibilities for the necessarily provisional and open-ended work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies. The overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature makes this volume an essential resource for students of the ancient world interested in the prolonged after-life of the classical period's cultural complexes, for medieval historians, for scholars of other medieval literary traditions, and for all those interested in delving more deeply into the fascinating more-than-millennium-long passage between the ancient Mediterranean world and what we consider modernity.
"The Handbook contains everything one could wish for, while at the same time it cannot possibly cover all the literature.." -Speculum
Ralph J. Hexter is Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Davis. He is also Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature.
David Townsend is Professor of Medieval Studies and English at the University of Toronto.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780195394016 |
| ISBN 10 | 0195394011 |
| Title | The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature |
| Author | Ralph Hexter |
| Series | Oxford Handbooks |
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| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Year published | 2012-02-23 |
| Number of pages | 672 |
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