Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age: A Study of the Versus Eporedienses and the Latin Classics (Publications of the Journal of Medieval ... of the Journal of Medieval Latin, 14)

First book-length study of the elegiac love poem 'Versus Eporedienses' (ca. 1080).00The 'Versus Eporedienses' (Verses from Ivrea), written around the year 1080 and attributed to a certain Wido, is a highly fascinating elegiac love poem celebrating worldly pleasures in an age usually associated with 'contemptus mundi'. One of the poem?s intriguing features, its extensive use of the Latin classics, especially of Ovid, makes it a precursor of the poetry of the so-called twelfth-century renaissance. In this first book-length study of the poem, the author provides a historical contextualisation, a verse-by-verse commentary, a detailed analysis of the classical sources and a discussion of its similarities with contemporary and later medieval poetry Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Edition and translation -- Commentary -- Verse by verse commentary -- -- Appendix 1. Sources of inspiration: Classical Latin Poetry: Ovid, Vergil, Juvenal, Lucan, Martial, Statius, Horace, Ilias Latina, Propertius, Seneca, Tibullus, Canticum Canticorum, Late Latin Poetry: Quod natum Phoebus, Prudentius, Venantius Fortunatus, Maximianus, Medieval Latin poetry -- -- Appendix 2. The Versus Eporedienses and the dawn of the twelfth century: Wenric of Trier's Conflictus ovis et lini, The poet of Asti's Novus Avianus, Godfrey of Reims, Baudri of Bourgueil -- -- Appendix 3. Similarities and matches in twelfth- and thirteenth-century love poetry: Z 49 (Dulcis amica mea) CR 26 (Si uera somnia) Hugh Primas (1093-c.1160) Carmina Burana De tribus puellis Bruma grando glacies Fidus amicus here -- Bibliography: Primary sources (Classical, Late Latin, Medieval) -- Secondary sources -- Index nominum -- Index codicum -- Index auctorum et carminum -- Index locorum similium -- Index locorum similium per ordinem auctorum et carminum digestus. "The Versus Eporedienses (Verses from Ivrea), written around the year 1080 and attributed to a certain Wido, is a highly fascinating elegiac love poem celebrating worldly pleasures in an age usually associated with contemptus mundi. One of the poem's intriguing features, its extensive use of the Latin classics, especially of Ovid, makes it a precursor of the poetry of the so-called twelfth-century renaissance. In this first book-length study of the poem, the author provides a historical contextualisation, a verse-by-verse commentary, a detailed analysis of the classical sources and a discussion of its similarities with contemporary and later medieval poetry."-- From the back cover