Michael Heath
- Published in print:
- 2004
- Published Online:
- September 2007
- ISBN:
- 9780199264827
- eISBN:
- 9780191718403
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199264827.003.0011
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
This chapter traces the editorial tradition of Gellius in France from 1508 down to Carrio's edition of 1585, with extensive paratextual matter by Henri Estienne, in particular the essays named in ...
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This chapter traces the editorial tradition of Gellius in France from 1508 down to Carrio's edition of 1585, with extensive paratextual matter by Henri Estienne, in particular the essays named in homage Noctes Parisinae. It then notes the use made of Gellius by scholars such as Guillaume Budé and Julius Caesar Scaliger, and in literature at large. He provided miscellanists with engaging anecdotes, presenting a framework and some ready-made chapters for such widely read compilations as Simon Goulart's Histoires admirables and Laurent Joubert's Erreurs populaires. Through such authors but also directly, he supplied material for Rabelais, for the anonymous satirist who wrote the controversial Cymbalum mundi, and above all for Montaigne, who makes continual use of Gellius while reworking him as he sees fit. The chapter ends by considering the affinities between the two authors.Less
This chapter traces the editorial tradition of Gellius in France from 1508 down to Carrio's edition of 1585, with extensive paratextual matter by Henri Estienne, in particular the essays named in homage Noctes Parisinae. It then notes the use made of Gellius by scholars such as Guillaume Budé and Julius Caesar Scaliger, and in literature at large. He provided miscellanists with engaging anecdotes, presenting a framework and some ready-made chapters for such widely read compilations as Simon Goulart's Histoires admirables and Laurent Joubert's Erreurs populaires. Through such authors but also directly, he supplied material for Rabelais, for the anonymous satirist who wrote the controversial Cymbalum mundi, and above all for Montaigne, who makes continual use of Gellius while reworking him as he sees fit. The chapter ends by considering the affinities between the two authors.
Edward Paleit
- Published in print:
- 2013
- Published Online:
- May 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780199602988
- eISBN:
- 9780191744761
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199602988.003.0002
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval, British and Irish History: BCE to 500CE
This chapter forms the first of two within Part One, ‘Contexts of Reading’. It examines the conceptual and cultural frameworks which shaped how Lucan was understood and used by English early modern ...
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This chapter forms the first of two within Part One, ‘Contexts of Reading’. It examines the conceptual and cultural frameworks which shaped how Lucan was understood and used by English early modern readers, making use both of English and continental examples, and often looking backwards to developments in sixteenth-century humanist scholarship. Its central task is to convey a number of key themes and ideas for reference and comparison in later sections. In particular it examines how Lucan’s marginal status within the Tudor pedagogical curriculum, due to a grammatical prejudice against post-Augustan poets strengthened by the moral and sectarian prejudices of humanist pedagogues, can actually be used to explain his subsequent growth in popularity.Less
This chapter forms the first of two within Part One, ‘Contexts of Reading’. It examines the conceptual and cultural frameworks which shaped how Lucan was understood and used by English early modern readers, making use both of English and continental examples, and often looking backwards to developments in sixteenth-century humanist scholarship. Its central task is to convey a number of key themes and ideas for reference and comparison in later sections. In particular it examines how Lucan’s marginal status within the Tudor pedagogical curriculum, due to a grammatical prejudice against post-Augustan poets strengthened by the moral and sectarian prejudices of humanist pedagogues, can actually be used to explain his subsequent growth in popularity.
