The Anglo-Latin Poetic Tradition

This volume presents new perspectives on the sources, transmission, and reception of Anglo-Latin poetry, ca. 650-1100. In the wake of recent seminal studies on Aldhelm, these essays collectively explore the wider poetic tradition, spanning the Late Antique inheritance through to the eleventh century. By encompassing select studies of both major and lesser-known authors, sources, and works, the volume can present new understandings of the multifaceted intellectual culture that gave rise to this unique and vibrant literary period. It engages with the medium of poetry, including manuscript culture, historical and intellectual backgrounds, and the epigraphic traditions; and highlights idiosyncratic style, metre, poetic diction, and formulas. The Anglo-Latin poetic tradition is notoriously and deliberately challenging, but this accessible collection yields rich new insights from emerging and established Anglo-Latin scholars.

Curran Colleen M. : Colleen Curran is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the University of Galway. She was previously a postdoctoral researcher on "A Consolidated Library of Anglo-Saxon Poetry," based at the University of Oxford, where she was also a Research Fellow at Corpus Christi College.

List of Illustrations A Note on the CLASP Project Acknowledgements Abbreviations "Introduction," by Colleen M. Curran Chapter 1. "'I' is for Isidore: Isidore of Seville and Early English Poetry," by Claudia Di Sciacca Chapter 2. " 'ibimus ambo simul quo pagina uenerit ista': The Transmission and Reception of Arator's Verse-Letters in Pre-Conquest England," by Richard Hillier Chapter 3. "Blebomen agialos: Biblical Exegesis and Marked Diction in Adelphus Adelpha Meter," by Grace Attwood Chapter 4. "Aldhelm's Aenigmata and the Teaching of Latin Prosody," by Cameron Scott Laird Chapter 5. "Rewriting the Psalter: Classical Poetics and Late Antique Stylistics in Bede's Metrical Psalms," by John Joseph Gallagher Chapter 6. "Carmina spoliata: Late-Antique Inscriptional Verse in the Poetry of Bede," by Christopher Scheirer Chapter 7. "Bede's Address to Acca in the Versus de die iudicii: Also Involving, Perhaps, Aldhelm, Berhtwald, Paschasius Radbertus, and Byrhtferth," by Frederick M. Biggs Chapter 8. "Frithegod and Stephen: Adapting the Vita sancti Wilfridi," by Tristan Major General Bibliography Index