The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature. Vol. I: 800-1558

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by  Rita Copeland (ed.)

The Oxford History
of Classical Reception
in English Literature
general editors
DAVID HOPKINS
and
CHARLES MARTINDALE
1
The Oxford History of Classical
Reception in English Literature
The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is
designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways
in which literary texts of the classical world have been responded to and refash-
ioned by English writers. Covering the full range of English literature from the
early Middle Ages to the present day, OHCREL both synthesizes existing scholarship
and presents cutting-edge new research, employing an international team of expert
contributors for each of the 5 volumes.
1. 800–1558
2. 1558–1660
3. 1660–1790
4. 1790–1880
5. after 1880
For a statement of the general principles informing OHCREL, and of the coverage
and scope of the History as a whole, readers are referred to the editors’ Preface to
Volume 3.
The Oxford History
of Classical Reception
in English Literature
Volume 1 (800–1558)
edited by
RITA COPELAND
1
3
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Contents
List of Figures viii
List of Abbreviations ix
List of Contributors x
Note to Readers on the Conventions Followed in this Volume xi
1. Introduction: England and the Classics from the Early
Middle Ages to Early Humanism 1
rita copeland
2. The Curricular Classics in the Middle Ages 21
rita copeland
3. Experiencing the Classics in Medieval Education 35
marjorie curry woods
4. The Trivium and the Classics 53
rita copeland
5. The Quadrivium and Natural Sciences 77
winston black
6. The Transmission and Circulation of Classical Literature:
Libraries and Florilegia 95
james willoughby
7. Mythography and Mythographical Collections 121
nicolette zeeman
8. Academic Prologues to Authors 151
rita copeland
9. Virgil 165
jan m. ziolkowski
10. Ovid and Ovidianism 187
suzanne conklin akbari
11. Lucan 209
alfred hiatt
Contents
12. Statius 227
winthrop wetherbee
13. Trojan Itineraries and the Matter of Troy 251
marilynn desmond
14. Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiae 269
ian cornelius
15. Moral Philosophy and Wisdom Literature 299
charles f. briggs
16. Historiography and Biography from the Period of Gildas
to Gerald of Wales 323
cam grey
17. Prudentius and the Late Classical Biblical Epics of Juvencus,
Proba, Sedulius, Arator, and Avitus 351
ad putter
18. John of Salisbury, Academic Scepticism, and Ciceronian Rhetoric 377
dallas g. denery ii
19. Alliterative Poetry and the Time of Antiquity 391
emily steiner
20. Other Worlds: Chaucer’s Classicism 413
alastair minnis
21. Gower’s Ovids 435
andrew galloway
22. John Lydgate and the Remaking of Classical Epic 465
robert r. edwards
23. Early Humanism in England 487
daniel wakelin
24. Survey of Henrician Humanism 515
james p. carley and ágnes juhász-ormsby
25. John Skelton 541
david r. carlson
26. Gavin Douglas’s Eneados 561
nicola royan
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Contents
27. Finding a Vernacular Voice: The Classical Translations
of Sir Thomas Wyatt 583
cathy shrank
28. The Aeneid Translations of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey:
The Exiled Reader’s Presence 601
james simpson
Select Bibliography of Ancient Sources (including late antiquity and
early Christian writings) 625
General Reference Works for Reception: Libraries, Textual Transmission,
Historical Sources 633
Studies on Ancient Authors and Classical Reception 637
Medieval: Primary Sources 645
Medieval: Secondary Sources 659
Early Humanism: Primary Sources 699
Early Humanism: Secondary Sources 705
Index 719
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List of Figures
1. The Trojans drag the wooden horse into Troy. London, British Library, MS
Royal 20 D I, Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César (second redaction), fol. 167v.
© British Library Board. 258
2. Gavin Douglas, The ·xiii. bukes of Eneados of the famose poete
Virgill translatet out of Latyne verses into Scottish metir (London, 1553),
p. 90, folio Niii. EEBO image 89, recto. Reproduced by permission of
the Henry Huntington Art Gallery, San Marino, Calif. 608
3. Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, The fourth boke of Virgill, intreating
of the loue betweene Aeneas and Dido (London, 1554), folio Dii recto
and Diii verso, EEBO images 14–15. Reproduced by permission of the
Carl H. Pforzheimer Library, Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas
at Austin. 609
List of Abbreviations
AHDLMA Archives d’histoire doctrinale et littéraire au moyen âge
CBMLC Corpus of British Medieval Library Catalogues
CCCM Corpus Christianorum continuatio medievalis
CCSL Corpus Christianorum series latina
CLA Codices latini antiquiores
CSEL Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum
EETS Early English Text Society
EETS es Early English Text Society extra series
EETS ss Early English Text Society supplementary series
EHR English Historical Review
ELH English Literary History
MGH Monumenta Germaniae historica
PG J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae cursus completus series graeca, 161 vols, Paris, 1857–66
PL J.-P. Migne, ed., Patrologiae cursus completus series latina, 221 vols Paris, 1844–64
PMLA Publications of the Modern Language Association of America
STC/RSTC A Short-Title Catalogue of Books Printed in England, Scotland and Ireland and of
English Books Printed Abroad 1475–1640, eds A. W. Pollard and G. R. Redgrave, 2nd
edn rev. W. A. Jackson et al., 3 vols (London, 1976–91)