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Product Identifiers

PublisherBoydell & Brewer, The Limited

ISBN-101843846535

ISBN-139781843846536

eBay Product ID (ePID)18059339272

Product Key Features

Number of Pages1200 Pages

Publication NameMedieval French Ovide Moralisé

LanguageEnglish

SubjectMedieval, European / French, European / General

Publication Year2023

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaLiterary Criticism, Poetry

AuthorMatthieu Boyd

SeriesGallica Ser.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight73.8 Oz

Item Length11.9 in

Item Width7.3 in

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Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

TitleLeadingThe

Reviews[A] masterclass in what modern scholarly translation should be. Just as the author of the Ovide rendered the Metamorphoses accessible to those for whom the original language and content would have been difficult to interpret, so Murray and Boyd open up the Ovide to a new generation of readers.

Series Volume Number51

Number of Volumes3 vols.

Table Of ContentVOLUME ONE Introduction - What is the Ovide Moralisé ?- Who Was the Audience?- Text and Image in the Manuscripts- Who Wrote the OM?- A Cauldron of Story and Interpretation- How Does the OM Moralize? Notes on the Translation Bibliography The TranslationDetailed ContentsBooks 1-4 VOLUME TWO Books 5-10 VOLUME THREE Books 11-15 Index

SynopsisFirst English translation of one of the most influential French poems of the Middle Ages. The anonymous Ovide moralisé ( Moralized Ovid ), composed in France in the fourteenth century, retells and explicates Ovid's Metamorphoses , with generous helpings of related texts, for a Christian audience. Working from the premise that everything in the universe, including the pagan authors of Graeco-Roman Antiquity, is part of God's plan and expresses God's truth even without knowing it, the Ovide moralisé is a massive and influential work of synthesis and creativity, a remarkable window into a certain kind of medieval thinking. It is of major importance across time and across many disciplines, including literature, philosophy, theology, and art history. This three volume set offers an English translation of this hugely significant text - the first into any modern language. Based on the only complete edition to date, that by Cornelis de Boer and others completed in 1938, it also reflects more recent editions and numerous manuscripts. The translation is accompanied by a substantial introduction, situating the Ovide moralisé in terms of the reception of Ovid, the mythographical tradition, and its medieval French religious and intellectual milieu. Notes discuss textual problems and sources, and relate the text to key issues in the thought of theologians such as Bonaventure and Aquinas.