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Converting Verse - David Ungvary

Converting Verse

The Poetics of Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul

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Buch | Hardcover
288 Seiten
2024
Oxford University Press Inc (Verlag)
978-0-19-760074-0 (ISBN)
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Converting Verse provides a fresh account of the ways Christian poets in the late Roman world-especially those in the outlying provinces of Gaul-reinvented Latin poetry's purpose and power during the turbulent fifth century, a period that witnessed barbarian incursions, the rise of monasticism, and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire itself.
For centuries, the Roman aristocracy encoded its social and cultural superiority in classical poetry. In the late Roman world, however, Christian poets--especially those in the outlying provinces of Gaul--began to experiment with poetry as a medium for exploring and asserting ascetic identities which were based on the disciplined rejection of worldly life and set in opposition to secular nobility.

Converting Verse offers a new cultural history of this ascetic transformation of Latin poetry and fortifies our understanding of the Christianization of Roman culture in Late Antiquity. It provides a fresh account of the ways Gallo-Roman Christian poets composed verse amid barbarian incursions, the rise of monasticism, and the collapse of the Western Roman Empire itself, showing how they responded to cultural instability with literary performances of spiritual discipline and religious reform. Through the fifth century, these poets--Paulinus of Nola, Paulinus of Pella, Sidonius Apollinaris, and Avitus of Vienne, among others--wrote poetry that urged and expressed the recalibration of traditional dynamics between literature and identity in the Roman world, and in the process reinvented Latin poetry's power and purpose.

Drawing on critical insights from classical studies, religious studies, and literary theory, David Ungvary argues that the significance of Christian poetic experimentation was not restricted to the aesthetic domain but had profound social and cultural implications as well. In the unsettled world of late Roman Gaul, Christian verse writing produced strategies and practices of authorship, religious conversion, and Christianization that informed the emergent cultures of the post-Roman West.

David Ungvary is Assistant Professor of Classics at Bard College.

INTRODUCTION

CHAPTER ONE
Verse and Conversion: Augustine and His Protégés

CHAPTER TWO
Authoring Asceticism in Late Roman Gaul, ca. 400-430

CHAPTER THREE
Verse and Incursion: The Epigramma Paulini and a Post-406 Poetics of Reform

CHAPTER FOUR
A Double Life: Paulinus of Pella's Eucharisticos

CHAPTER FIVE
Announcing Renunciation: Sidonius Apollinaris and Poetic Disavowal

CHAPTER SIX
The Poet and the Virgin: Avitus of Vienne's De Consolatoria Castitatis Laude

EPILOGUE
Beyond Gaul: Ennodius of Pavia's Eucharisticon

APPENDIX
Ennodius, Eucharisticon, Translated with Rachel Hodes

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Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Oxford Studies in Late Antiquity
Verlagsort New York
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 226 mm
Gewicht 499 g
Themenwelt Literatur Lyrik / Dramatik Lyrik / Gedichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Vor- und Frühgeschichte
Geschichte Allgemeine Geschichte Altertum / Antike
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10 0-19-760074-3 / 0197600743
ISBN-13 978-0-19-760074-0 / 9780197600740
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