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Carolingian Scholarship and Martianus Capella: Ninth-Century Commentary Traditions on 'De nuptiis' in Context

Editors Mariken Teeuwen and Sinéad O’Sullivan

Book series: Cultural Encounters in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages, 12

Place: publisher, year: Turnhout: Brepols Publishers, 2011

Pages: 404 p.

pISBN: 978-2-503-53178-6

eISBN: 978-2-503-53949-2

doi: 10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.6.09070802050003050301070806

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Abstract:

It is well known that the Carolingian royal family inspired and promoted a cultural revival of great consequence. The courts of Charlemagne and his successors welcomed lively gatherings of scholars who avidly pursued knowledge and learning, while education became a booming business in the great monastic centres, which were under the protection of the royal family. Scholarly emphasis was placed upon Latin language, religion, and liturgy, but the works of classical and late antique authors were collected, studied, and commented upon with similar zeal. A text that was read by ninth-century scholars with an almost unrivalled enthusiasm is Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, a late antique encyclopedia of the seven liberal arts embedded within a mythological framework of the marriage between Philology (learning) and Mercury (eloquence). Several ninth-century commentary traditions testify to the work’s popularity in the ninth century. Martianus’s text treats a wide range of secular subjects, including mythology, the movement of the heavens, numerical speculation, and the ancient tradition on each of the seven liberal arts. De nuptiis and its exceptionally rich commentary traditions provide the focus of this volume, which addresses both the textual material found in the margins of De nuptiis manuscripts, and the broader intellectual context of commentary traditions on ancient secular texts in the early medieval world.

Front Matter (“Contents, List of Illustrations, List of Abbreviations, List of Sigla”), p. i

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Introduction, p. 1

Mariken Teeuwen

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3001

Writing between the Lines: Reflections of Scholarly Debate in a Carolingian Commentary Tradition, p. 11

Mariken Teeuwen

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3002

The Stemmatic Relationship between the Manuscripts Transmitting the Oldest Gloss Tradition, p. 35

Sinéad O’Sullivan

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3003

Quadrivial Reasoning and Allegorical Revelation: ‘Meta-knowledge’ and Carolingian Approaches to Knowing, p. 57

Calvin M. Bower

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3004

On Early Medieval Divisions of Knowledge, p. 75

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3005

Obscurity, Pagan Lore, and Secrecy in Glosses on Books I–II from the Oldest Gloss Tradition, p. 99

Sinéad O’Sullivan

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3006

Perceptions of the Past in Ninth-Century Commentaries on Martianus Capella, p. 123

Natalia Lozovsky

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3007

Questions and Observations Based on Transcribing the Commentary on Books IV and V, Dialectic and Rhetoric, p. 147

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3008

Quelques thèmes récurrents dans les gloses du ‘plus ancien commentaire’ sur Martianus Capella VII (manuscrit de Leyde, VLF 48), p. 177

Jean-Yves Guillaumin

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3009

The Power of Diagrams: The Place of the Anonymous Commentary in the Development of Carolingian Astronomy and Cosmology, p. 193

Bruce S. Eastwood

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3010

Martianus and the Traditions of Early Medieval Astronomies, p. 221

Stephen C. McCluskey

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3011

Eriugena’s Commentary on Martianus in the Framework of his Thought and the Philosophical Debate of his Time, p. 245

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3012

‘Heed that saying of Terence’: On the Use of Terence in Radbert’s Epitaphium Arsenii, p. 273

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3013

The Scholica graecarum glossarum and Martianus Capella, p. 301

Patrizia Lendinara

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3014

Counting the Heads of the Hydra: The Development of the Early Medieval Commentary on Boethius’s Consolation of Philosophy, p. 363

Malcolm Godden, Rohini Jayatilaka

https://doi.org/10.1484/M.CELAMA-EB.4.3015

Back Matter (“Index of Manuscripts, Index of Names, Index of Works, List of Contributors”), p. 377

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