The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature

The twenty-eight essays in this handbook represent the best current thinking in the study of Latin language and literature in the Middle Ages. Contributing authors--both senior scholars and gifted younger thinkers among them--not only illuminate the field as traditionally defined but also
offer fresh insights into broader questions of literary history, cultural interaction, world literature, and language in history and society. Their studies vividly illustrate the field's complexities on a wide range of topics, including canonicity, literary styles and genres, and the materiality of
manuscript culture. At the same time, they suggest future possibilities for the necessarily provisional and open-ended work essential to the pursuit of medieval Latin studies. The overall approach of The Oxford Handbook of Medieval Latin Literature makes this volume an essential resource for
students of the ancient world interested in the prolonged after-life of the classical period's cultural complexes, for medieval historians, for scholars of other medieval literary traditions, and for all those interested in delving more deeply into the fascinating more-than-millennium-long passage
between the ancient Mediterranean world and what we consider modernity.


Author: Ralph Hexter, David Townsend
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Published: 07/01/2016
Pages: 658
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 2.40lbs
Size: 9.50h x 6.70w x 1.50d
ISBN: 9780190497095

About the Author

Ralph J. Hexter is Provost and Executive Vice Chancellor at the University of California, Davis. He is also Professor of Classics and Comparative Literature.

David Townsend is Professor of Medieval Studies and English at the University of Toronto.

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