Michael Lapidge
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- January 2010
- ISBN:
- 9780199239696
- eISBN:
- 9780191708336
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199239696.003.0006
- Subject:
- History, History of Ideas
This chapter discusses the reconstruction of vanished Anglo-Saxon libraries, focusing on works known to, or quoted by, pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin authors. It makes distinctions between quotations and ...
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This chapter discusses the reconstruction of vanished Anglo-Saxon libraries, focusing on works known to, or quoted by, pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin authors. It makes distinctions between quotations and verbal reminiscences because the evidence of each needs to be evaluated differently. A quotation provides the safest sort of evidence when an Anglo-Saxon author names his source and then quotes that source verbatim and in extenso. A reminiscence consists of a collocation of several words taken, often involuntarily, from an antecedent source.Less
This chapter discusses the reconstruction of vanished Anglo-Saxon libraries, focusing on works known to, or quoted by, pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin authors. It makes distinctions between quotations and verbal reminiscences because the evidence of each needs to be evaluated differently. A quotation provides the safest sort of evidence when an Anglo-Saxon author names his source and then quotes that source verbatim and in extenso. A reminiscence consists of a collocation of several words taken, often involuntarily, from an antecedent source.
T. P. Wiseman (ed.)
- Published in print:
- 2006
- Published Online:
- January 2012
- ISBN:
- 9780197263235
- eISBN:
- 9780191734328
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- British Academy
- DOI:
- 10.5871/bacad/9780197263235.001.0001
- Subject:
- Classical Studies, Literary Studies: Classical, Early, and Medieval
The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and ...
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The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity. This book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies.Less
The study of Greco-Roman civilisation is as exciting and innovative today as it has ever been. This intriguing collection by contemporary classicists reveals new discoveries, new interpretations and new ways of exploring the experiences of the ancient world. Through one and a half millennia of literature, politics, philosophy, law, religion and art, the classical world formed the origin of western culture and thought. This book emphasises the many ways in which it continues to engage with contemporary life. Offering a wide variety of authorial style, the chapters range in subject matter from contemporary poets' exploitation of Greek and Latin authors, via newly discovered literary texts and art works, to modern arguments about ancient democracy and slavery, and close readings of the great poets and philosophers of antiquity. This book reflects the current rejuvenation of classical studies.
Owen M. Phelan
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- January 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780198718031
- eISBN:
- 9780191787454
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198718031.003.0002
- Subject:
- Religion, Church History, History of Christianity
Chapter 1 explores sacramentum as an ordering concept for Latin authors from Antiquity to the early Middle Ages. Ultimately, Carolingian thinkers, aware of both secular and religious contexts, used ...
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Chapter 1 explores sacramentum as an ordering concept for Latin authors from Antiquity to the early Middle Ages. Ultimately, Carolingian thinkers, aware of both secular and religious contexts, used the word to describe the establishment of relationships that were at once legally binding and theologically meaningful. Intellectuals reflecting on baptism as a sacramentum offered a technical vocabulary which became paradigmatic for scholars while at the same time becoming familiar to broader audiences through catechetical teachings. Viewing baptism as a sacramentum offered Carolingian leaders an intellectual rationale for the project of the Carolingian Renewal and, bridging the realm of theology and the realm of law, suggested a way to build their imperium christianum.Less
Chapter 1 explores sacramentum as an ordering concept for Latin authors from Antiquity to the early Middle Ages. Ultimately, Carolingian thinkers, aware of both secular and religious contexts, used the word to describe the establishment of relationships that were at once legally binding and theologically meaningful. Intellectuals reflecting on baptism as a sacramentum offered a technical vocabulary which became paradigmatic for scholars while at the same time becoming familiar to broader audiences through catechetical teachings. Viewing baptism as a sacramentum offered Carolingian leaders an intellectual rationale for the project of the Carolingian Renewal and, bridging the realm of theology and the realm of law, suggested a way to build their imperium christianum.
Gerard O'Daly
- Published in print:
- 2020
- Published Online:
- November 2020
- ISBN:
- 9780198841241
- eISBN:
- 9780191876806
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/oso/9780198841241.003.0011
- Subject:
- Religion, Early Christian Studies
In the City of God Augustine uses a large variety of literary sources, and in a variety of ways. Some are cited in passing, others are repeatedly used; some are referred to by name, others may be ...
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In the City of God Augustine uses a large variety of literary sources, and in a variety of ways. Some are cited in passing, others are repeatedly used; some are referred to by name, others may be inferred; in some cases, a specific use or influence is disputed by modern interpreters. This chapter collects and summarizes the literary influences upon Augustine in City, and the sources he used, often polemically. It contains sections on secular Latin writers, on Greek, mainly philosophical, writers in Latin translations, and on Jewish and Christian writers. The principal authors discussed are, in the first section, Varro, Cicero, Sallust, Virgil, and Apuleius; in the second section, Plato, Plotinus, and Porphyry; and in the third section, Origen, Eusebius, and Jerome.Less
In the City of God Augustine uses a large variety of literary sources, and in a variety of ways. Some are cited in passing, others are repeatedly used; some are referred to by name, others may be inferred; in some cases, a specific use or influence is disputed by modern interpreters. This chapter collects and summarizes the literary influences upon Augustine in City, and the sources he used, often polemically. It contains sections on secular Latin writers, on Greek, mainly philosophical, writers in Latin translations, and on Jewish and Christian writers. The principal authors discussed are, in the first section, Varro, Cicero, Sallust, Virgil, and Apuleius; in the second section, Plato, Plotinus, and Porphyry; and in the third section, Origen, Eusebius, and Jerome.
