A Late Antique Poetics?

The Jeweled Style Revisited

Joshua Hartman, Helen Kaufmann (Herausgeber)

Buch | Softcover

328 Seiten

2025
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-34714-4 (ISBN)

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The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of admiration, it has found numerous detractors and defenders among classicists and Latin literary critics. This volume explores the scholarly approaches to late Latin poetry that have developed over the last 40 years, and it seeks especially to develop, complement and challenge the seminal concept of the ‘Jeweled Style’ proposed by Michael Roberts in 1989. While Roberts’s monograph has long been a vade mecum within the world of late antique literary studies, a critical reassessment of its validity as a concept is overdue.

This volume invites established and emerging scholars from different research traditions to return to the influential conclusions put forward by Roberts. It asks them to examine the continued relevance of The Jeweled Style and to suggest new ways to engage it. In a joint effort, the nineteen chapters of this volume define and map the jeweled style, extending it to new genres, geographic regions, time periods and methodologies. Each contribution seeks to provide insightful analysis that integrates the last 30 years of scholarship while pursuing ambitious applications of the jeweled style within and beyond the world of late antiquity.

Helen Kaufmann is an independent scholar, UK. She has published articles on the poetics of late antique poetry as well as a commentary on Dracontius’ Medea (2006). She is particularly interested in the connections between space, place and identity in late Latin poetry. Joshua Hartman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Bowdoin College, USA. His research focuses on the relationship between literature and memory, especially during late antiquity. He has published articles on Greek and Roman literature, Roman cultural memory and classical reception in Latin America.

List of Figures
List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes on Texts and Translations
Abbreivations
Introduction
Joshua Hartman (Bowdoin College, USA) and Helen Kaufmann (independent scholar)

Part I: The Formal Features of the Jeweled Style

1. The Decadent Prehistory of the Jeweled Style
Ian Fielding (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)

2. The Greek Jeweled Style
Fotini Hadjittofi (University of Lisbon, Portugal)

3. Gilding the Lily: The Jeweled Style in Prose Panegyric
Catherine Ware (University College Cork, Ireland)

4. Learning the Jeweled Style
Frances Foster (University of Cambridge, UK)

5. Quantitative Approaches to Late Latin Poetics: Enumeration and Congeries
Joshua Hartman (Bowdoin College, USA) and Jacob Lavernier (independent scholar)

6. The Jeweled Style and Silver Latin Scholarship
Ruth Parkes (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)

7. The Jeweled Style in Early Medieval Poetry
Cillian O’Hogan (University of Toronto, Canada)

8. Digression, Variety and Unity in (Late) Latin Poetry
Helen Kaufmann (independent scholar)

Part II: The Jeweled Style and Late Antique Aesthetics

9. Metaphor Squared
Christoph Schubert (University of Erlangen, Germany)

10. An ‘Unjeweled’ Christian style? A Look at Augustine’s Confessions
Jesús Hernández Lobato (University of Salamanca, Spain)

11. The Cento and Scripture: An Early Christian Debate over the Poetics of Exegesis
David Ungvary (Bard College, USA)

12. Jeweled Sea Storm Descriptions in Zeno of Verona (and Juvencus)
Francesco Lubian (University of Padova, Italy)

13. Allusive Clusters and Biblical Configurations in Dracontius, De laudibus dei: A Christian Jeweled Style?
Elena Castelnuovo (independent scholar)

14. Vergil’s Children: Patterns in Christian Centos and Responses to Vergil’s Fourth Eclogue
Scott McGill (Rice University, USA)

15. Architectural Ecphrasis in Venantius Fortunatus: Beyond the Jeweled Style
Carole Newlands (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)

16. The Jeweled Style in Epigram
Bret Mulligan (Haverford College, USA)

17. The Jeweled Style and Neoplatonism
Andreas Abele (University of Tübingen, Germany)

Epilogue: The Jeweled Style in Context
Michael Roberts (Wesleyan Memorial University, USA)

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Erscheinungsdatum	11.07.2023
Reihe/Serie	sera tela: Studies in Late Antique Literature and Its Reception
Zusatzinfo	4 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-34714-0 / 1350347140
ISBN-13	978-1-350-34714-4 / 9781350347144
Zustand	Neuware