Verfasst von:	Day, Matthew [VerfasserIn]
Titel:	English humanism and the reception of Virgil c. 1400-1550
Verf.angabe:	Matthew Day
Ausgabe:	First edition
Verlagsort:	Oxford
Verlag:	Oxford University Press
Jahr:	2023
Umfang:	xii, 223 Seiten
Gesamttitel/Reihe:	Oxford English monographs
Fussnoten:	Literaturverzeichnis: Seite 201-217
ISBN:	978-0-19-287113-8
Abstract:	"This monograph reassesses how the spread of Renaissance humanism in England impacted the reception of Virgil. It begins with the first signs of humanist influence in the fifteenth century, and ends at the height of the English Renaissance during the mid-Tudor period. This period witnessed the first extant English translations of Virgil's Aeneid, by William Caxton (1490), Gavin Douglas (1513) and the Earl of Surrey (c. 1543). It also marked the first printings of Virgil's works in England by Richard Pynson (c. 1515) and Wynkyn de Worde (1510s-1520s). Through a fine-grained analysis of surviving manuscripts and early printed editions, the monograph questions how and to what extent Renaissance humanism impacted readers' and translators' approaches to Virgil. Building on current scholarship in the fields of book history, classical reception, and translation studies, it draws attention to substantial continuities between the medieval and humanist reception of Virgil's works. Humanist study of Virgil, and indeed of classical poetry more generally, continued to draw many of its aims, methods, and conventions from well-established medieval traditions of learning. In emphasizing the very gradual pace of humanist development and the continuous influence of medieval scholarship, the monograph comes to a more qualified view of how humanism did and (just as importantly) did not affect Virgilian reading and translation. While recognizing humanist innovations and discoveries, it gives due attention to the understudied, yet far more numerous examples of consistency and traditionalism"--
Schlagwörter:	(p)Vergilius Maro, Publius    / (s)Rezeption    / (s)Englisch    / (s)Literatur    / (s)Humanismus
Sprache:	eng
Bibliogr. Hinweis:	Erscheint auch als : Online-Ausgabe: Day, Matthew, 1994 - : English humanism and the reception of Virgil c. 1400-1550. - First edition. - Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2022. - 1 online resource
RVK-Notation:	HI 1144
K10plus-PPN:	1824060092