A commentary on Nigel of Canterbury's 'Miracles of the Virgin':

"Nigel of Canterbury, also known as Longchamp and Whiteacre, wrote toward the end of the so-called Twelfth-Century Renaissance. He was a Benedictine monk of Christ Church when Thomas Becket was martyred, and a star of Anglo-Latin literature while the Angevin kings held sway over a vast empire t...

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1. Verfasser: Ziolkowski, Jan M. 1956- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Washington, DC Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection [2022]
Schriftenreihe:Supplements to the Dumbarton Oaks medieval library
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Zusammenfassung:"Nigel of Canterbury, also known as Longchamp and Whiteacre, wrote toward the end of the so-called Twelfth-Century Renaissance. He was a Benedictine monk of Christ Church when Thomas Becket was martyred, and a star of Anglo-Latin literature while the Angevin kings held sway over a vast empire that encompassed not only the British Isles but also western France. The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library volume features, alongside the Latin, the first-ever English translation of Nigel's second-longest poem, Miracles of the Virgin. The Miracles is the oldest extant collection of versified miracles of Mary in Latin and indeed in any language. The seventeen narratives, telling a gamut of tales from diabolic pacts to pregnant abbesses, gave scope for Nigel to display skills as a storyteller and stylist, while recounting the miraculous mercy of the Virgin. This supplement offers an extensive commentary to facilitate appreciation of the Miracles as poetry by a medieval writer deeply imbued in the long tradition of Latin literature"
Beschreibung:Includes index
"Supplement to DOML 75, Nigel of Canterbury : Miracles of the Virgin ; Tract on abuses, edited and translated by Jan M. Ziolkowski and Ronald E. Pepin, published by Harvard University Press"--Series title page
Beschreibung:xvi, 262 Seiten 21 cm
ISBN:9780884024941