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Books by Marek T Kretschmer
Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 2020
Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 2007
The Historia Romana was the most popular work on Roman history in the Middle Ages. A highly inter... more The Historia Romana was the most popular work on Roman history in the Middle Ages. A highly interesting aspect of its transmission and reception are its many redactions which bear witness to the continuous development of the text in line with changing historical contexts. This study presents the very first classification of such rewritings, and produces new insights into historiographical discourse in the Middle Ages. Drawing on an analysis of the paraphrase contained in the manuscript Bamberg Hist. 3, which is edited here for the first time, the author offers numerous examples of textual transformations of language, style and ideology, all of which give us a clearer picture of textual fluidity in medieval historiography.
Textes et Etudes du Moyen Age, 2014
Le présent volume se propose, à travers des approches comparatives appliquées à un corpus de text... more Le présent volume se propose, à travers des approches comparatives appliquées à un corpus de textes d’histoire appartenant à des périodes et des milieux différents, d’aboutir à une compréhension plus approfondie de l’influence de la typologie et des images bibliques sur l’historiographie du Moyen Âge: historiae, chronica, gesta, annales, vitae, etc. Il s’agit, en effet, d’un aspect souvent négligé de l’historiographie médiévale, en raison, probablement, des controverses théoriques qui entourent le domaine. Cette publication devrait fournir de nouveaux outils de travail qui seront des apports précieux pour tous ceux qui s’intéressent à l’historiographie à l’époque médiévale.
Book chapters by Marek T Kretschmer
Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond. A millennium heritage, Amsterdam, p. 606-624., 2024
The present chapter discusses Latin poems dealing with the Trojan matter from the rise of such po... more The present chapter discusses Latin poems dealing with the Trojan matter from the rise of such poetry around 1060 up to the early 13th century, when poems in the vernacular become dominating. Discussed poets or anonymous poems include the Versus Eporedienses, Godfrey of Reims, Baudri of Bourgueil, the Deidamia Achilli, the Heu male te cupimus, the Sub uespere Troianis menibus, the Carmina Burana 92, 99–102, the Anna soror ut quid mori, Hugh Primas, the Viribus arte minis, Peter Riga, the Alea fortunae, Simon Capra Aurea, the Altercatio Ganymedis et Helenae, the Causae Aiacis et Ulixis I–II, the Quis partus Troiae and the Bella minans Asiae. A short postface offers a rapid synopsis of the vernacular literature that marks the late Middle Ages.
Il tempo nell'alto medioevo, 2024
Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy, Dec 2013
1 Alcuin, letter 43 to Charlemagne; PL 100,col.208. All translations are mine. 2 Brinkmann (1979)... more 1 Alcuin, letter 43 to Charlemagne; PL 100,col.208. All translations are mine. 2 Brinkmann (1979) passim. 3 Beissner (1965) 24-45. 4 Etymologiae 1.39.14: Elegiacus autem dictus eo, quod modulatio eiusdem carminis conueniat miseris Lindsay (1911) 78. marek thue kretschmer whereas the poems of Propertius and Tibullus were, with very few exceptions, unknown to the medieval men -and occasional women -of letters. However, this Ovidian literary activity was a local phenomenon limited to northern and central France and especially to the Loire Valley. 7 The cathedral school of Orléans 8 was the most important centre for the revival of Ovid and other Roman classics. In the heyday of the so-called Twelfth-Century Renaissance, 9 one of the Orléans teachers, Matthew of Vendôme, redefined elegy as the literary genre of love poetry. In his Ars uersificatoria (ca.1170), a guide to poetics, he opens the second book with a personification of the different forms of poetry. Inspired by Ovid, Boethius and Martianus Capella, he describes his nightly vision of a vernal appearance of Lady Philosophy accompanied by the four maidens Tragedy, Satire, Comedy and Quarta pharetratos Elegia cantat amores (cf. Rem. am. 379) fauorali supercilio, oculo quasi uocatiuo, fronte expositiva petulantiae, cuius labella prodiga saporis ad oscula uidentur suspirare; quae ultima procedens non ex indignitate, sed potius ex inaequalitate pedum: tamen in effectu iocunditatis staturae claudicantis uindicat detrimentum, iuxta illud Ouidii:
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy, 2019
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim was a tenth-century learned Saxon canoness. As a medieval female writer a... more Hrotsvit of Gandersheim was a tenth-century learned Saxon canoness. As a medieval female writer and composer of Latin drama, she was doubly unique. This paper pays homage to the work of this enigmatic figure by exploring the relationship between her plays and those of Terence.
Medieval Letters Between Fiction and Document, Jun 2015
Scrivere storia nel medioevo: Regolamentazione delle forme e delle pratiche nei secoli XII-XV, 2021
Quali sono gli elementi che caratterizzano una scrittura storica? Cosa rende peculiare il lavoro ... more Quali sono gli elementi che caratterizzano una scrittura storica? Cosa rende peculiare il lavoro nite e condivise? me caratteri ben precisi. Mancando, per il mondo latino, trattati antichi che insegnassero come regole che poi sarebbero state sancite formalmente solo nel XV secolo.
La Typologie biblique comme forme de pensée dans l'historiographie médiévale, 2014
La typologie biblique comme forme de pensée dans l'historiographie médiévale (Textes et Études du Moyen Âge, 75) p. 1-23., Dec 2014
Giurato si saria ch'el dicesse 'Ave !' ; perché iv'era imaginata quella ch'ad aprir l'alto amor v... more Giurato si saria ch'el dicesse 'Ave !' ; perché iv'era imaginata quella ch'ad aprir l'alto amor volse la chiave ; e avea in atto impressa esta favella 'Ecce ancilla Dei', propriamente come fi gura in cera si suggella.
Auctor et Auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi Litteris. Author and Authorship in Medieval Latin Literature. Proceedings of the VI Congress of the International Medieval Latin Committee . Volume edited by Edoardo D'Angelo and Jan Ziolkowski, 2014
This article examines Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s perceptions of her own authorship and especially ... more This article examines Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s perceptions of her own authorship and especially how she responded to the literary conventions of her time. An analysis of her prologues reveals that the Saxon canoness was anxious not to disappoint her critics. For instance, in the cases where she dispenses with the source of an auctor or distances herself from the auctoritas of a model, Hrotsvit apologizes to her audience. Traditionally, her justifications have been interpreted as pure captatio benevolentiae. In this article, another approach is proposed: Hrotsvit’s departure from the auctores is contextualized in her overarching project of “rewriting” Terence.
La compilación del saber en la Edad Media , 2014
Depuis les dernières décennies, nous assistons, chez les chercheurs en historiographie médiévale,... more Depuis les dernières décennies, nous assistons, chez les chercheurs en historiographie médiévale, à un intérêt accru pour la culture du manuscrit et pour le phénomène de réécriture. Dans ce domaine, les manuscrits contenant des compilations constituent un objet d’étude particulièrement précieux et fascinant. Le terme “réécriture” s’applique habituellement à l’usage, très répandu au Moyen Age, de produire des nouvelles versions de textes (d’auteurs), ou bien, dans le cas de nos historiographes médiévaux, il s’applique à la manière assez libre dont on traitait les sources. D’ailleurs, dans l’étude des compilations, le concept de “réécriture” peut acquérir un sens plus large. L’art de combiner des textes pour en former une lecture continue est aussi, d’une certaine manière, une forme de réécriture. La présente communication, consacrée au manuscrit numéro 8816 de la bibliothèque nationale d’Espagne, a pour but de s’interroger sur la “réécriture” dans ces deux sens : d’une part, sur la logique de combinaison de tous les textes (le manuscrit en tant que recueil), et d’autre part, sur les principes de composition de ce qu’on a qualifié, jusqu’ici, de compilation d’histoire romaine d’après Tite Live, César, Eutrope, Suétone, Orose et Paul Diacre (ceci constitue les feuillets 72-244 des 260 feuillets du manuscrit complet). Le premier et plus important résultat de cette contribution est la découverte de l’auteur de la compilation d’histoire romaine. En effet, les feuillets 72-244 sont une copie incomplète du Compendium Historiae Romanae de Riccobaldus de Ferrare (1245-1318). Il s’agit donc, dans un premier temps, d’aborder la méthode de travail de Riccobaldus : comment il évaluait, critiquait et commentait ses sources. On verra, entre autre, que Riccobaldus est marqué, dans le choix des textes, par son goût littéraire, et qu’il restructure ou explique ses modèles pour améliorer la lecture. Dans la deuxième partie de cette communication j’examinerai les rapports entre les différents textes du manuscrit: les Collectanea rerum memorabilium de Solin, l’anonyme De septem mirabilibus mundi, l’apocryphe Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem, le Compendium Historiae Romanae de Riccobaldus, et les Moralisationes historiarum de Robert Holcot (1290-1349). Sur le plan du contenu, cette analyse nous apprend que, les textes montrent plusieurs points communs. Deuxièmement, un groupe de marginalia témoigne d’une lecture morale. Ces marginalia sont des références à Valère Maxime rédigées en marge des textes de Solin et de Riccobaldus. En conclusion, cette contribution montre que l’idée du recueil est d’offrir aux lecteurs (ou plutôt aux auditeurs) un savoir du monde et de l’homme, mais en même temps de les amener, par une ascension spirituelle, à se perfectionner dans la voie du salut. C’est un chemin qui part du plan physique ou géographique, en passant par le plan historique et moral, pour monter jusqu’à Dieu. Ainsi, ce recueil représente une image du monde analogue à celle de la Divine Comédie et de la mappemonde de Hereford.
Studia in honorem Vibeke Roggen, 2022
PAOLA MARONGIU Quid Maria Caietana de Agnesis Italica mathematicae et philosophiae perita saeculi... more PAOLA MARONGIU Quid Maria Caietana de Agnesis Italica mathematicae et philosophiae perita saeculi XVIII puellula novem annorum de studiis feminarum dixerit ......
Papers by Marek T Kretschmer
Revue d'histoire des textes, 2024
The medieval commentary on the Metamorphoses by Pierre Bersuire known as the Ovidius moralizatus ... more The medieval commentary on the Metamorphoses by Pierre Bersuire known as the Ovidius moralizatus exists in two versions named after their place of composition: the Avignon version (A) and the Paris version (P). Current research distinguishes two Avignon redactions (A1 and A2), without however offering a satisfactory explanation of their differences. The present article examines certain textual additions that seem to be characteristic of the A2 redaction.
Revue d'études médiévales et de philologie romane, 2024
Henri Romain’s Compendium historial is an abridgement of the commented translation of Saint Augus... more Henri Romain’s Compendium historial is an abridgement of the commented translation of Saint Augustine’s City of God by Raoul de Presles, supplemented by additions taken from other sources. This article is intended to be a first study on the sources of the second book. Among the few Latin sources, Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada’s De rebus Hispaniae appears as particularly interesting. The main part of this article is devoted to an analysis of the use of this source.
Le Moyen Âge, 2024
Here and there, the anonymous poet of Ovide moralisé intersperses his immense poem, translating a... more Here and there, the anonymous poet of Ovide moralisé intersperses his immense poem, translating and commenting on the Metamorphoses, with passages often taken from other Ovidian works, thus foreign to the hypotext. This article presents an analysis of one of those passages which, at first glance, might be considered curious textual contaminations, pieces inserted for the sheer pleasure of compilation, and which seemingly serve no function beyond that of embellishing the text. The first part of the analysis identifies the sources of the passage in question (Ovide moralisé, xiv, v. 5660–5774). As it happens, the French poet used the Fasti to reconstruct the myth of Romulus in his own way. The second part demonstrates even more interesting results: each stage of the myth has been juxtaposed with an episode from the history of Salvation (Ovide moralisé, xiv, v. 5995–6120). By systematically developing this allegorization, our poet shows great creativity.
Thanks to the age-long efforts of Birger Munk Olsen, to whom the present article is dedicated, we... more Thanks to the age-long efforts of Birger Munk Olsen, to whom the present article is dedicated, we have a good overview of how the Roman classics were spread, read and (re-)used up to the year 1200, but we have no such cicerone for the Late Middle Ages. Taking the medieval commentaries on the Metamorphoses as a point of departure, the article is an attempt to open up the Ovidius moralizatus of Pierre Bersuire, a fourteenth-century commentary that hitherto has received relatively little notice due to the lack of a critical edition. After a preliminary discussion of how the Ovidius moralizatus relates to the earlier medieval commentary tradition and a general assessment of the Avignon and Paris versions, the core of the article focuses on the explanatory principles.
The Journal of Medieval Latin, 2016
The poem Versus Eporedienses (ca. 1080) is one of the earliest examples of Medieval Latin metrica... more The poem Versus Eporedienses (ca. 1080) is one of the earliest examples of Medieval Latin metrical love poetry. Ever since the first edition in 1869, certain enigmatic aspects of the poem have been debated. One fundamental issue that remains unsettled is the identity of the puella and the related question of classical models. Marco Giovini proposed to identify her as one of the Heliades arguing that the poem must be read as both a contrasting pendant to Juvenal’s Satire 11 and as a poetic continuation of the Ovidian myth of the Heliades (Met. 2.340–66). After an initial criticism of this hypothesis, the present article offers an intertextual analysis, on the basis of which it is argued that Amores 3.6 provided the author of the VE with a model for his poem and puella, namely Rhea Silvia.
Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 2020
Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 2007
The Historia Romana was the most popular work on Roman history in the Middle Ages. A highly inter... more The Historia Romana was the most popular work on Roman history in the Middle Ages. A highly interesting aspect of its transmission and reception are its many redactions which bear witness to the continuous development of the text in line with changing historical contexts. This study presents the very first classification of such rewritings, and produces new insights into historiographical discourse in the Middle Ages. Drawing on an analysis of the paraphrase contained in the manuscript Bamberg Hist. 3, which is edited here for the first time, the author offers numerous examples of textual transformations of language, style and ideology, all of which give us a clearer picture of textual fluidity in medieval historiography.
Textes et Etudes du Moyen Age, 2014
Le présent volume se propose, à travers des approches comparatives appliquées à un corpus de text... more Le présent volume se propose, à travers des approches comparatives appliquées à un corpus de textes d’histoire appartenant à des périodes et des milieux différents, d’aboutir à une compréhension plus approfondie de l’influence de la typologie et des images bibliques sur l’historiographie du Moyen Âge: historiae, chronica, gesta, annales, vitae, etc. Il s’agit, en effet, d’un aspect souvent négligé de l’historiographie médiévale, en raison, probablement, des controverses théoriques qui entourent le domaine. Cette publication devrait fournir de nouveaux outils de travail qui seront des apports précieux pour tous ceux qui s’intéressent à l’historiographie à l’époque médiévale.
Latin Literatures of Medieval and Early Modern Times in Europe and Beyond. A millennium heritage, Amsterdam, p. 606-624., 2024
The present chapter discusses Latin poems dealing with the Trojan matter from the rise of such po... more The present chapter discusses Latin poems dealing with the Trojan matter from the rise of such poetry around 1060 up to the early 13th century, when poems in the vernacular become dominating. Discussed poets or anonymous poems include the Versus Eporedienses, Godfrey of Reims, Baudri of Bourgueil, the Deidamia Achilli, the Heu male te cupimus, the Sub uespere Troianis menibus, the Carmina Burana 92, 99–102, the Anna soror ut quid mori, Hugh Primas, the Viribus arte minis, Peter Riga, the Alea fortunae, Simon Capra Aurea, the Altercatio Ganymedis et Helenae, the Causae Aiacis et Ulixis I–II, the Quis partus Troiae and the Bella minans Asiae. A short postface offers a rapid synopsis of the vernacular literature that marks the late Middle Ages.
Il tempo nell'alto medioevo, 2024
Cambridge Companion to Latin Love Elegy, Dec 2013
1 Alcuin, letter 43 to Charlemagne; PL 100,col.208. All translations are mine. 2 Brinkmann (1979)... more 1 Alcuin, letter 43 to Charlemagne; PL 100,col.208. All translations are mine. 2 Brinkmann (1979) passim. 3 Beissner (1965) 24-45. 4 Etymologiae 1.39.14: Elegiacus autem dictus eo, quod modulatio eiusdem carminis conueniat miseris Lindsay (1911) 78. marek thue kretschmer whereas the poems of Propertius and Tibullus were, with very few exceptions, unknown to the medieval men -and occasional women -of letters. However, this Ovidian literary activity was a local phenomenon limited to northern and central France and especially to the Loire Valley. 7 The cathedral school of Orléans 8 was the most important centre for the revival of Ovid and other Roman classics. In the heyday of the so-called Twelfth-Century Renaissance, 9 one of the Orléans teachers, Matthew of Vendôme, redefined elegy as the literary genre of love poetry. In his Ars uersificatoria (ca.1170), a guide to poetics, he opens the second book with a personification of the different forms of poetry. Inspired by Ovid, Boethius and Martianus Capella, he describes his nightly vision of a vernal appearance of Lady Philosophy accompanied by the four maidens Tragedy, Satire, Comedy and Quarta pharetratos Elegia cantat amores (cf. Rem. am. 379) fauorali supercilio, oculo quasi uocatiuo, fronte expositiva petulantiae, cuius labella prodiga saporis ad oscula uidentur suspirare; quae ultima procedens non ex indignitate, sed potius ex inaequalitate pedum: tamen in effectu iocunditatis staturae claudicantis uindicat detrimentum, iuxta illud Ouidii:
The Cambridge Companion to Roman Comedy, 2019
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim was a tenth-century learned Saxon canoness. As a medieval female writer a... more Hrotsvit of Gandersheim was a tenth-century learned Saxon canoness. As a medieval female writer and composer of Latin drama, she was doubly unique. This paper pays homage to the work of this enigmatic figure by exploring the relationship between her plays and those of Terence.
Medieval Letters Between Fiction and Document, Jun 2015
Scrivere storia nel medioevo: Regolamentazione delle forme e delle pratiche nei secoli XII-XV, 2021
Quali sono gli elementi che caratterizzano una scrittura storica? Cosa rende peculiare il lavoro ... more Quali sono gli elementi che caratterizzano una scrittura storica? Cosa rende peculiare il lavoro nite e condivise? me caratteri ben precisi. Mancando, per il mondo latino, trattati antichi che insegnassero come regole che poi sarebbero state sancite formalmente solo nel XV secolo.
La Typologie biblique comme forme de pensée dans l'historiographie médiévale, 2014
La typologie biblique comme forme de pensée dans l'historiographie médiévale (Textes et Études du Moyen Âge, 75) p. 1-23., Dec 2014
Giurato si saria ch'el dicesse 'Ave !' ; perché iv'era imaginata quella ch'ad aprir l'alto amor v... more Giurato si saria ch'el dicesse 'Ave !' ; perché iv'era imaginata quella ch'ad aprir l'alto amor volse la chiave ; e avea in atto impressa esta favella 'Ecce ancilla Dei', propriamente come fi gura in cera si suggella.
Auctor et Auctoritas in Latinis Medii Aevi Litteris. Author and Authorship in Medieval Latin Literature. Proceedings of the VI Congress of the International Medieval Latin Committee . Volume edited by Edoardo D'Angelo and Jan Ziolkowski, 2014
This article examines Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s perceptions of her own authorship and especially ... more This article examines Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s perceptions of her own authorship and especially how she responded to the literary conventions of her time. An analysis of her prologues reveals that the Saxon canoness was anxious not to disappoint her critics. For instance, in the cases where she dispenses with the source of an auctor or distances herself from the auctoritas of a model, Hrotsvit apologizes to her audience. Traditionally, her justifications have been interpreted as pure captatio benevolentiae. In this article, another approach is proposed: Hrotsvit’s departure from the auctores is contextualized in her overarching project of “rewriting” Terence.
La compilación del saber en la Edad Media , 2014
Depuis les dernières décennies, nous assistons, chez les chercheurs en historiographie médiévale,... more Depuis les dernières décennies, nous assistons, chez les chercheurs en historiographie médiévale, à un intérêt accru pour la culture du manuscrit et pour le phénomène de réécriture. Dans ce domaine, les manuscrits contenant des compilations constituent un objet d’étude particulièrement précieux et fascinant. Le terme “réécriture” s’applique habituellement à l’usage, très répandu au Moyen Age, de produire des nouvelles versions de textes (d’auteurs), ou bien, dans le cas de nos historiographes médiévaux, il s’applique à la manière assez libre dont on traitait les sources. D’ailleurs, dans l’étude des compilations, le concept de “réécriture” peut acquérir un sens plus large. L’art de combiner des textes pour en former une lecture continue est aussi, d’une certaine manière, une forme de réécriture. La présente communication, consacrée au manuscrit numéro 8816 de la bibliothèque nationale d’Espagne, a pour but de s’interroger sur la “réécriture” dans ces deux sens : d’une part, sur la logique de combinaison de tous les textes (le manuscrit en tant que recueil), et d’autre part, sur les principes de composition de ce qu’on a qualifié, jusqu’ici, de compilation d’histoire romaine d’après Tite Live, César, Eutrope, Suétone, Orose et Paul Diacre (ceci constitue les feuillets 72-244 des 260 feuillets du manuscrit complet). Le premier et plus important résultat de cette contribution est la découverte de l’auteur de la compilation d’histoire romaine. En effet, les feuillets 72-244 sont une copie incomplète du Compendium Historiae Romanae de Riccobaldus de Ferrare (1245-1318). Il s’agit donc, dans un premier temps, d’aborder la méthode de travail de Riccobaldus : comment il évaluait, critiquait et commentait ses sources. On verra, entre autre, que Riccobaldus est marqué, dans le choix des textes, par son goût littéraire, et qu’il restructure ou explique ses modèles pour améliorer la lecture. Dans la deuxième partie de cette communication j’examinerai les rapports entre les différents textes du manuscrit: les Collectanea rerum memorabilium de Solin, l’anonyme De septem mirabilibus mundi, l’apocryphe Epistola Alexandri ad Aristotelem, le Compendium Historiae Romanae de Riccobaldus, et les Moralisationes historiarum de Robert Holcot (1290-1349). Sur le plan du contenu, cette analyse nous apprend que, les textes montrent plusieurs points communs. Deuxièmement, un groupe de marginalia témoigne d’une lecture morale. Ces marginalia sont des références à Valère Maxime rédigées en marge des textes de Solin et de Riccobaldus. En conclusion, cette contribution montre que l’idée du recueil est d’offrir aux lecteurs (ou plutôt aux auditeurs) un savoir du monde et de l’homme, mais en même temps de les amener, par une ascension spirituelle, à se perfectionner dans la voie du salut. C’est un chemin qui part du plan physique ou géographique, en passant par le plan historique et moral, pour monter jusqu’à Dieu. Ainsi, ce recueil représente une image du monde analogue à celle de la Divine Comédie et de la mappemonde de Hereford.
Studia in honorem Vibeke Roggen, 2022
PAOLA MARONGIU Quid Maria Caietana de Agnesis Italica mathematicae et philosophiae perita saeculi... more PAOLA MARONGIU Quid Maria Caietana de Agnesis Italica mathematicae et philosophiae perita saeculi XVIII puellula novem annorum de studiis feminarum dixerit ......
Revue d'histoire des textes, 2024
The medieval commentary on the Metamorphoses by Pierre Bersuire known as the Ovidius moralizatus ... more The medieval commentary on the Metamorphoses by Pierre Bersuire known as the Ovidius moralizatus exists in two versions named after their place of composition: the Avignon version (A) and the Paris version (P). Current research distinguishes two Avignon redactions (A1 and A2), without however offering a satisfactory explanation of their differences. The present article examines certain textual additions that seem to be characteristic of the A2 redaction.
Revue d'études médiévales et de philologie romane, 2024
Henri Romain’s Compendium historial is an abridgement of the commented translation of Saint Augus... more Henri Romain’s Compendium historial is an abridgement of the commented translation of Saint Augustine’s City of God by Raoul de Presles, supplemented by additions taken from other sources. This article is intended to be a first study on the sources of the second book. Among the few Latin sources, Rodrigo Jiménez de Rada’s De rebus Hispaniae appears as particularly interesting. The main part of this article is devoted to an analysis of the use of this source.
Le Moyen Âge, 2024
Here and there, the anonymous poet of Ovide moralisé intersperses his immense poem, translating a... more Here and there, the anonymous poet of Ovide moralisé intersperses his immense poem, translating and commenting on the Metamorphoses, with passages often taken from other Ovidian works, thus foreign to the hypotext. This article presents an analysis of one of those passages which, at first glance, might be considered curious textual contaminations, pieces inserted for the sheer pleasure of compilation, and which seemingly serve no function beyond that of embellishing the text. The first part of the analysis identifies the sources of the passage in question (Ovide moralisé, xiv, v. 5660–5774). As it happens, the French poet used the Fasti to reconstruct the myth of Romulus in his own way. The second part demonstrates even more interesting results: each stage of the myth has been juxtaposed with an episode from the history of Salvation (Ovide moralisé, xiv, v. 5995–6120). By systematically developing this allegorization, our poet shows great creativity.
Thanks to the age-long efforts of Birger Munk Olsen, to whom the present article is dedicated, we... more Thanks to the age-long efforts of Birger Munk Olsen, to whom the present article is dedicated, we have a good overview of how the Roman classics were spread, read and (re-)used up to the year 1200, but we have no such cicerone for the Late Middle Ages. Taking the medieval commentaries on the Metamorphoses as a point of departure, the article is an attempt to open up the Ovidius moralizatus of Pierre Bersuire, a fourteenth-century commentary that hitherto has received relatively little notice due to the lack of a critical edition. After a preliminary discussion of how the Ovidius moralizatus relates to the earlier medieval commentary tradition and a general assessment of the Avignon and Paris versions, the core of the article focuses on the explanatory principles.
The Journal of Medieval Latin, 2016
The poem Versus Eporedienses (ca. 1080) is one of the earliest examples of Medieval Latin metrica... more The poem Versus Eporedienses (ca. 1080) is one of the earliest examples of Medieval Latin metrical love poetry. Ever since the first edition in 1869, certain enigmatic aspects of the poem have been debated. One fundamental issue that remains unsettled is the identity of the puella and the related question of classical models. Marco Giovini proposed to identify her as one of the Heliades arguing that the poem must be read as both a contrasting pendant to Juvenal’s Satire 11 and as a poetic continuation of the Ovidian myth of the Heliades (Met. 2.340–66). After an initial criticism of this hypothesis, the present article offers an intertextual analysis, on the basis of which it is argued that Amores 3.6 provided the author of the VE with a model for his poem and puella, namely Rhea Silvia.
The Journal of Medieval Latin 23 (2013), pp. 35-47., 2013
This is the first of three articles on the Versus Eporedienses. The second was published in volum... more This is the first of three articles on the Versus Eporedienses. The second was published in volume 26 of The Journal of Medieval Latin. I am currently working on the third article which will be a line-by-line-commentary.
Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 49, pp. 383-392., 2014
Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch 48, pp. 41-54, 2013
Latomus 70, pp. 1102-1116., 2011
La notion de translatio studii chez Baudri de Bourgueil ... forsan Athenae noua perficeretur in F... more La notion de translatio studii chez Baudri de Bourgueil ... forsan Athenae noua perficeretur in Francia, immo multo excellentior, quia haec Christi Domini nobilitata magisterio, omnem Academicae exercitationis superat sapientiam. Illa tantummodo Platonicis erudita disciplinis, septenis informata claruit artibus ; haec etiam insuper septiformi sancti Spiritus plenitudine ditata omnem saecularis sapientiae excellit dignitatem. Alcuin, lettre à Charlemagne (PL 100, col. 282) (1) Cf. A. G. JonGkees, Translatio studii : les avatars d'un thème médiéval in Miscel -
Filologia Mediolatina 15, pp. 283-306., 2008
In light of recent results given by Monique Goullet in the field of hagiography, with the present... more In light of recent results given by Monique Goullet in the field of hagiography, with the present paper I have pointed out some parallel findings in the field of historiography. Forged after the term launched by Goullet, réécriture hagiographique, I propose a similar term, historiographical rewriting, as a field of research, which deserves greater attention in the future. More specifically, I wanted to show with a few examples how the idea rewriting may be instrumental in our re-readings or re-interpretations of the histories of the Latin West.
Studi Medievali 51, pp. 307-327., 2010
Symbolae Osloenses 83, 2008
This article analyses several passages from a tenth-century paraphrase of the Epitome de Caesarib... more This article analyses several passages from a tenth-century paraphrase of the Epitome de Caesaribus, an anonymous and epitomized collection of imperial lives originally produced around the year 400. The analysis shows that among the many textual changes of linguistic, stylistic and ideological nature, errors did also occur during the rewriting process. The author explores some possible approaches to these passages.
Symbolae Osloenses 78, 2003
This paper contains an edition of the manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, n. a. lat. 1523-I... more This paper contains an edition of the manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale, n. a. lat. 1523-II. The edition is preceded by an introduction in which the author claims that the manuscript is a unique copy of a lost abbreviation and paraphrase of Landolfus Sagax.
Le Moyen Âge. Revue d'histoire et de philologie, 2022
Cet article prend comme point de départ le constat de M. Possamaï-Pérez selon lequel Achille figu... more Cet article prend comme point de départ le constat de M. Possamaï-Pérez selon lequel Achille figure le Christ dans le livre xii de l’Ovide moralisé. Son travail constitue sans doute un apport considérable à la compréhension de la signification de la matière troyenne dans l’Ovide moralisé. Cependant, aucune étude semblable n’a été faite sur la figure de Pélée. Le présent article avance l’hypothèse que l’interprétation typologique de la matière troyenne peut être étendue au livre xi. En effet, une analyse des v. 1099–2995 de ce livre montre que les péripéties du père d’Achille figurent le destin d’Adam, de sorte qu’une double typologie s’établit : Pélée-Achille/Adam-Christ.
Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 2021
This paper offers a metrical (and a preliminary stylistic) analysis of the poem Versus Eporediens... more This paper offers a metrical (and a preliminary stylistic) analysis of the poem Versus Eporedienses which is compared to the Novus Avianus Astensis, and proposes the hypothesis that the two anonymous poems have been written in the same milieu or even by the same author.
Symbolae Osloenses, 2022
Pierre Bersuire's Ovidius moralizatus, one of the major medieval commentaries on Ovid's Metamorph... more Pierre Bersuire's Ovidius moralizatus, one of the major medieval commentaries on Ovid's Metamorphoses, exists in two principal versions, Avignon (A) and Paris (P). This article examines certain textual developments and additions related to the myth of Aesculapius (Met. 2.598-632 + 15.622-744) that distinguish the Parisian version from the Avignon version of the Ovidius moralizatus.
Cahiers de recherches médiévales et humanistes - Journal of Medieval and Humanistic Studies, 2021
Le présent article offre une introduction générale à l’œuvre de Pierre Bersuire suivie par une di... more Le présent article offre une introduction générale à l’œuvre de Pierre Bersuire suivie par une discussion plus approfondie de son Ovidius moralizatus. À travers une série d’exemples tirés de manuscrits contenant la version parisienne de cet ouvrage, l’auteur aborde quelques questions liées à sa transmission.
Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 2017
, The text and transmission of some Bedan works. .. BESPRECHUNGEN Birger Munk Olsen, L'étude des ... more , The text and transmission of some Bedan works. .. BESPRECHUNGEN Birger Munk Olsen, L'étude des auteurs classiques latins au XI et XII siècles. IV/1: La réception de la littérature classique. Travaux philologiques; IV/2: La réception de la littérature classique. Manuscrits et textes-besprochen von
Mittellateinisches Jahrbuch, 2020
medievals 37). Barcelona 2018-besprochen von Wilken Engelbrecht. .. .. Fleur de clergie. Mélanges... more medievals 37). Barcelona 2018-besprochen von Wilken Engelbrecht. .. .. Fleur de clergie. Mélanges en l'honneur de Jean-Yves Tilliette (Rayon Histoire de la Librairie Droz 8), éd. par Olivier Collet, Yasmina Foehr-Janssens et Jean-Claude Mühlethaler avec la collaboration de Prunelle Deleville, Genève 2019-besprochen von Marek Thue Kretschmer. . Julia Frick, Thomas Murners ›Aeneis‹-Übersetzung (1515). Lateinischdeutsche Edition und Untersuchungen (Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen zur deutschen Literatur des Mittelalters 149), 2 Bde., Wiesbaden 2019-besprochen von Gerlinde Huber-Rebenich. .. .. .. .. . Thomas Rubel, Der Sünder als Stilmodell. Schullektüre im 13. Jahrhundert am Beispiel des Militarius. Mit kritischer Edition, Glossen und Untersuchungen zur Stoffgeschichte, zweite, überarbeitete und ergänzte Auflage (Studium Litterarum 18), Berlin 2019-besprochen von Klaus Pfützenreuter .
Au cours de la première partie du XIVe siècle, les deux mythes liés à Bacchus contenus dans les M... more Au cours de la première partie du XIVe siècle, les deux mythes liés à Bacchus contenus dans les Métamorphoses d’Ovide (3.253-315 et 3.511-733) sont moralisés à trois reprises : par le poète anonyme de l’Ovide moralisé (v. 1320) et par Pierre Bersuire qui indépendamment de l’Ovide moralisé produit une première version de son Ovidius moralizatus en Avignon (v. 1340) et, après avoir pris connaissance de l’Ovide moralisé par l’intermédiaire de Philippe de Vitry, rédige une version étendue à Paris (v. 1350) pour laquelle il se sert, entre autres, de l’Ovide moralisé. Bersuire inclut également des explications sur la figure de Bacchus dans son chapitre introductif, le De formis figurisque deorum. Comme il n’existe pas d’édition critique de l’Ovidius moralizatus, on ne connaît ni la nature ni l’étendue exacte des passages empruntés par Bersuire à l’Ovide moralisé. L’objectif de cette communication est, d’une part, de proposer une présentation des moralisations de la figure de Bacchus dans l’Ovide moralisé et l’Ovidius moralizatus, et d’autre part, d’évaluer dans quelle mesure Bersuire est tributaire de son prédécesseur anonyme.
La storia e la sua scrittura: dalla prassi alla regola, dalla formalizzazione alla professionaliz... more La storia e la sua scrittura: dalla prassi alla regola, dalla formalizzazione alla professionalizzazione (secc. XII -XVI in.) CONVEGNO 16-18 SETTEMBRE 2019 EFR ROMA PIAZZA NAVONA 62 ISTITUTO STORICO ITALIANO PER IL MEDIO EVO
My paper "The Play of Ambiguity in the Medieval Latin Love Letters of the Ovidian Age" constitute... more My paper "The Play of Ambiguity in the Medieval Latin Love Letters of the Ovidian Age" constitutes a chapter in the Proceedings edited by Christian Høgel and Elisabetta Bartoli now published as volume 33 in the Utrecht Studies in Medieval Literacy (Brepols). See under "book chapters" above.
I have edited the proceedings of the conference volume which you will find above (under “books” a... more I have edited the proceedings of the conference volume which you will find above (under “books” and “book chapters”).
This paper has now been published in the Proceedings edited by Edoardo D'Angelo and Jan Ziolkowsk... more This paper has now been published in the Proceedings edited by Edoardo D'Angelo and Jan Ziolkowski (see "book chapters" above).
