Weeping for Dido (eBook)

The Classics in the Medieval Classroom

Marjorie Curry Woods (Autor)

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2019 | 1. Auflage
200 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-18874-4 (ISBN)

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Saint Augustine famously 'wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword,' and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgil's Aeneid and other classical texts. In Weeping for Dido, Marjorie Curry Woods takes readers into the medieval classroom, where boys identified with Dido, where teachers turned an unfinished classical poem into a bildungsroman about young Achilles, and where students not only studied but performed classical works.

Woods opens the classroom door by examining teachers' notes and marginal commentary in manuscripts of the Aeneid and two short verse narratives: the Achilleid of Statius and the Ilias latina, a Latin epitome of Homer's Iliad. She focuses on interlinear glosses-individual words and short phrases written above lines of text that elucidate grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, but that also indicate how students engaged with the feelings and motivations of characters. Interlinear and marginal glosses, which were the foundation of the medieval classroom study of classical literature, reveal that in learning the Aeneid, boys studied and empathized with the feelings of female characters; that the unfinished Achilleid was restructured into a complete narrative showing young Achilles mirroring his mentors, including his mother, Thetis; and that the Ilias latina offered boys a condensed version of the Iliad focusing on the deaths of young men. Manuscript evidence even indicates how specific passages could be performed.

The result is a groundbreaking study that provides a surprising new picture of medieval education and writes a new chapter in the reception history of classical literature.

Marjorie Curry Woods is the Jane and Roland Blumberg Centennial Professor of English, Professor of Comparative Literature, and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of An Early Commentary on the 'Poetria nova' of Geoffrey of Vinsauf and Classroom Commentaries: Teaching the 'Poetria nova' across Medieval and Renaissance Europe.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.2.2019
• Reihe/Serie: E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series
• Reihe/Serie: E. H. Gombrich Lecture Series
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Mittelalter
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: Aarne–Thompson classification systems • Abbreviation • Abigail Adams • Accademia dei Lincei • Achilleid • Achilleid of Statius • Achilles • Aeneid • another woman • Ars Poetica (Horace) • Augustine • Biblioteca Casanatense • Biblioteca Vallicelliana • Bodleian Library • Book • Boys • British Library • calchas • Cambridge Songs • Cambridge University Press • capitalization • Career • Carmina Burana • Character (arts) • characterization • Christopher de Hamel • Classical Mythology • Classical tradition • Classroom • Couplet • creusa • Curriculum • deed • De Inventione • Despair (novel) • Dido • Dido and Aeneas • Dido's Lament • Dracontius • Elaine Scarry • elegiac comedy • Emotion • Emotional Pain • emotional scenes • emotional speeches • Essay • Ethopoeia • Exordium (rhetoric) • Fanzine • Feeling • For Children (Bartók) • Gender • Glossator • Harvard University Press • Henry Purcell • Hero and Leander • horror film • Humanities • Ilias Latina • Ilioneus • In Parenthesis • Interlinear gloss • Lament • Lecture • Libanius • librarian • Life of Homer (Pseudo-Herodotus) • Literature • Lyric Poetry • Manuscript • Masculinity • Max Planck Institute for Human Development • medieval classroom • Medieval Education • Medieval Latin • medieval manuscripts • Medieval Poetry • medieval teaching • Memory • Misfortune (folk tale) • Ms. • Narration • narrative • Oxford University Press • Palinurus • Pamphilus de amore • Parody • Pedagogy • Performance • pity • Poems • Poetry • Princeton University Press • Priscian • Progymnasmata • Prose • Protesilaus • Punctuation • Pyramus and Thisbe • Quentin Skinner • Quintilian • rhetoric • Rhetorica ad Herennium • Rosamond McKitterick • S. (Dorst novel) • Sexual Violence • Sophocles • Stanley Lombardo • terence • traditional story • treatise • Troilus and Criseyde • Trojan War • Ventriloquism • Verb • Virgil • Vulgar Latin • William of Champeaux • Women in Love • Writing
• ISBN-10: 0-691-18874-2 / 0691188742
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-18874-4 / 9780691188744