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Selected Papers by Kathryn L McKinley

Le tre corone. Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio, 2024

Medievalia et Humanistica, 2024

Le Tre Corone: Rivista internazionale di studi su Dante, Petrarca, Boccaccio , 2022

Later Middle English Literature, Materiality, and Culture: Essays in Honor of James M. Dean. Eds. Brian Gastle, Erick Kelemen. Lanham, MD: Rowman and Littlefield., 2018

Critical Insights: Geoffrey Chaucer , 2017

A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology, 2017

A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a... more A Handbook to the Reception of Classical Mythology presents a collection of essays that explore a wide variety of aspects of Greek and Roman myths and their critical reception from antiquity to the present day.
Reveals the importance of mythography to the survival, dissemination, and popularization of classical myth from the ancient world to the present day
Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance
Features chronologically organized essays that address different sets of myths that were important in each historical era, along with their thematic relevance
Offers a series of carefully selected in-depth readings, including both popular and less well-known examples

Meaning in Motion: The Semantics of Movement in Medieval Art. Edited by Nino Zchomelidse & Giovanni Freni. Princeton University Press., 2011

Metamorphosis: the Changing Face of Ovid in Medieval and Early Modern Europe, 2007

English Manuscript Studies 1100-1700, 1998

Allegorica: A Journal of Medieval and Renaissance Literature , 1997

Translation of the first-century Latin version of Homer’s Iliad popular in medieval school anthol... more Translation of the first-century Latin version of Homer’s Iliad popular in medieval school anthologies.

Books by Kathryn L McKinley

Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies Publications, Toronto, 2016

Geoffrey Chaucer’s House of Fame has rightly been read as an ironic response to Dante’s Commedia.... more Geoffrey Chaucer’s House of Fame has rightly been
read as an ironic response to Dante’s Commedia.
Chaucer’s narrator carries out his dream-journey in
realms far from Dante’s spiritual geographies: the
mural-filled Temple of Venus, the lavishly adorned
Palace of the Goddess Fame, and the turbulent, noisy
House of Rumour. Chaucer also playfully responds to
Dantean motifs with Book Two’s eagle-turnedmagister,
who lectures his passenger, Geffrey, on the
properties of sound and language en route to the
Palace of Fame. In the end Chaucer’s dream vision,
with its exploration of the problematics of knowing
and the limitations of language, seems to challenge
many of the foundational truths of Dante’s Commedia.
Yet there is a larger story to tell. This study considers
how Chaucer’s poem engages Boccaccio’s writings as
much as Dante’s. Chaucer’s trips to Italy profoundly
changed his understanding of poetry, the vernacular,
and literary history. The House of Fame, written upon
his return, bears the imprint of Dantean imagery and
reflects Dante’s own passionate commitment to the
use of the vernacular. But Chaucer, who translated and
adapted Boccaccio’s Teseida and Il Filostrato, also
deeply engaged the terza rima allegory, the Amorosa
visione (c. 1342–3), with its extensive visual poetics of
ekphrasis. Itself written as a secularizing love poem, in
deeply problematic dialogue with Dante’s Commedia,
the Amorosa visione forms a central place in Boccaccio’s,
and later Chaucer’s, agonistic relationship with the
legacy of Dante. Chaucer’s “House of Fame” and Its
Boccaccian Intertexts addresses in new ways this
broader triangular relationship among Dante,
Boccaccio, and Chaucer. Boccaccio’s Amorosa visione
gave Chaucer a viable model for a response to Dante’s
theocentric poetics. It valorized earthly love, the
vernacular, and the legends of the ancient past even
as over and over again it raised the question of
indeterminacy.

Cambridge University Press, 2011

Ovid is perhaps the most important surviving Latin poet and his work has influenced writers throu... more Ovid is perhaps the most important surviving Latin poet and his work has influenced writers throughout the world. This volume presents a groundbreaking series of essays on his reception across the Middle Ages. The collection includes contributions from distinguished Ovidians as well as leading specialists in medieval Latin and vernacular literature, clerical and extra-clerical culture and medieval art, and addresses questions of manuscript and textual transmission, translation, adaptation and imitation. It also explores the intersecting cultural contexts of the schools (monastic and secular), courts and literate lay households. It elaborates the scale and scope of the enthusiasm for Ovid in medieval Europe, following readers of the canon from the Carolingian monasteries to the early schools of the Île de France and on into clerical and curial milieux in Italy, Spain, the British Isles and even the Byzantine Empire.
Read more at http://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/classical-studies/classical-literature/ovid-middle-ages#RRVMPAxfCOH1YRbE.99
Paperback 2015.

Brill, 2017

This study investigates the reception of Ovid's heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written be... more This study investigates the reception of Ovid's heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written between 1100 and 1618. The Ovidian heroine offers a telling window onto medieval and early modern clerical constructions of gender and selfhood. In the context of classical representations of the feminine, the book examines Ovid's engagement of the heroine to explore problems of intentionality. The second part of the study presents commentaries by such clerics as William of Orléans, the "Vulgate" commentator, Thomas Walsingham, and Raphael Regius, illustrating the reception of the Ovidian heroine in medieval France and England as well as in Renaissance Italy and Germany. The works analyzed here show that clerical readings of the feminine in Ovid reflect greater heterogeneity than is commonly alleged. Both moralizing summaries and Latin editions used as schooltexts are discussed.

Paperback 2017