Medieval Manuscripts in Transition
Tradition & Creative Recycling
[In English & French Languages]

Mediaevalia Lovaniensia Series I, Studia XXXVI

Edited By Geert Claassens & Werner Verbeke
December 2006
Leuven University Press
Distributed By Coronet Books
ISBN: 9789058675200
376 pages, 6 1/4 x 9 1/2"
$127.50 Paper Original


Manuscripts constitute the source material par excellence for diverse academic disciplines. Art historians, philologists, historians, theologians, philosophers, book historians and even jurists encounter one another around the codex. The fact that such an encounter can be extremely fertile was demonstrated, during an international congress in Brussels on November 5-9, 2002.

A record of the discussions can be found in this volume of the Mediaevalia Lovaniensia. The editors selected those lectures that focused on the historical, literary-historical, philosophical and theological aspects of the congress theme as opposed to those with an explicit art-historical perspective. The common thread, however, is always the codicological aspect: what can the study of manuscripts contribute to the literary-historical interpretation or the insight into the functioning of a text in its original context. The various contributions testify to a fearless and unrestrained interdisciplinary approach to the material. The subjects broached cover a broad domain: from the development of classical themes to the transmission of lyrical models, from visual material giving evidence of the reception of literary texts to the artes-literature used as a vehicle for a love story.


Contents include:

Preface

Sharon ARBUTHNOT
Medieval Irish Compilation: Conservatism and Creativity

Catherine BEL
Métamorphose des Métamorphoses: le conte de Pyramus et Thisbé dans les manuscrits de l’Ovide moralisé en vers

Paul BERTRAND – Baudouin VAN DEN ABEELE
Recyclage de contenus et récupération de pièces d’archives dans le Macrologus encyclopédique de Saint-Laurent de Liège, (circa 1470-1480)

Pieter BORGHART
The Reception of Aristotle’s Ethica Nicomachea in the Heimelijkheid der heimelijkheden (Secret of secrets) by Jacob van Maerlant

Herman BRAET
Du Portrait d’auteur dans Le Roman de la Rose

Geert H.M. CLAASSENS
From Ars to Amor: Ms. Gent, U.B. 444 as a Labour of Love

Katty DE BUNDEL
A Female Scribe Reveals Herself: The Making of Ms. Leuven, Theol. 842S

Yitzhak HEN
The Recycling of Liturgy under Pippin III and Charlemagne

Donna MAYER-MARTIN
Respun Melodies for the Virgin: Trouvère Models for the Songs of Gautier de Coinci

Martine MEUWESE
The Secret History of the Fox and the Hare in Trinity B.11.22

Virginie MINET-MAHY
Le recyclage des métaphores dans la littérature allégorique: De l’histoire du sens à la création poétique. – L’image de la harpe et de l’harmonie universelle

Esther M. MULDERS
Medieval Manifestations of Eros: The Ancient God of Love in a Christian Setting

Susie SPEAKMAN SUTCH
La production d’un manuscrit du poème intituled Le Chevalier délibéré d'Olivier de La Marche

Gilbert TOURNOY
An Italian Scribe at Bruges in the Second Half of the Fifteenth Century: Francesco Florio

Tania VAN HEMELRYCK
La Mutacion de Paix: L’évolution des figures exemplaires pacifiques dans la littérature française médiévale du XIVe siècle au début du XVIe siècle

Wim VERBAAL
The Writer’s Love. Love and the Act of Reading: Plato, Augustine and Bernard of Clairvaux

Livia VISSER-FUCHS
The Manuscript of the Enseignement de vraie noblesse Made for Richard Neville, Earl of Warwick, in 1464

Index librorum manu scriptorum
Index locorum et nominum personarum



Philosophy; Ancient History

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