Collection(s) : Culture & société médiévales
Paru le 01/12/2016 | Broché 456 pages
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Centre d'études supérieures de civilisation médiévale
This book provides a fresh insight into European medieval culture by focusing on the concept of the marvellous as it was depicted in medieval writings. Drawing together papers that were presented at the Aspects of the Marvellous in Medieval Literature conference, held at the University of L'Aquida in November 2012, the volume takes a broad multicultural and multilingual approach that offers new perspectives onto the various kinds of mirabile and their common themes in texts from across Europe. Contributions to this volume pay equal attention to both Latin and vernacular writings, and cover aspects of the marvellous in fields as diverse as medieval Latin literature, Romance, Germanic, and Celtic philology, miracles and mirabilia, monsters and fairies, strange creatures and fantastic worlds. Above all, by expanding analysis through different literatures, languages, and literary genres, the volume not only provides an opportunity to compare and contrast key themes and features of these texts, but also casts new light onto the making of our own cultural identity.
Franca Ela Consolino is professor of Latin language and literature at Università de l'Aquila. She is the author of several contributions on Latin literary production between Late Antiquity and the early Middle Ages. Francesco Marzella (PhD in Studies of Antique, Middle Ages, Renaissance) researches the marvellous in Anglo-Latin literature of the twelfth century. His critical editions of Aelred of Rievaulx's Vita sancti Aedwardi regis et Confessoris and the anonymous poem Vita sancti Aedwardi uersifice will soon be published in Brepols' Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis series. Lucilla Spetia is professor of Romance Philology at Università de L'Aquila and has authored several contributions on medieval French and Provençal literatures.
