Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts

by Martianus Capella

The text provides an understanding of medieval allegory and the components of a medieval education.

Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts

Author: Martianus Capella

Publisher: Columbia University Press

ISBN: 9780231037198

Page: 389

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Part of a detailed compendium of late-Roman learning in each of the seven liberal arts, set within an amusing mythological-allegorical tale of courtship and marriage among the pagan gods. The text provides an understanding of medieval allegory and the components of a medieval education.

The Liberal Arts Tradition

by Bruce A. Kimball

425) INTRODUCTION For more than a millennium, Martianus Capella's only
extant work, The Marriage of Philology and Mercury (c. 425), was ... William H.
Stahl, “Introduction,” in Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts, v.1, p. 21.

The Liberal Arts Tradition

Author: Bruce A. Kimball

Publisher: University Press of America

ISBN: 076185133X

Page: 522

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Ranging from Plato in antiquity to Martha Nussbaum in the present era, the authors of the seventy readings included in The Liberal Arts Tradition present significant and exemplary views addressing liberal arts education over the course of its history, particularly in the United States. Most of the documents are newly translated or no longer available in print. Arranged chronologically, each selection is accompanied by an informative introduction and extensive explanatory notes discussing its place within the liberal arts tradition. Based upon the author's twenty-five years of experience leading seminars concerning the history of liberal education, this collection presents a uniquely comprehensive and salient set of documents, while incorporating the neglected portrayal and discussion of women within the history of the liberal arts.

Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts

by Marion Dolan

divided into nine books and is essentially a treatise summarizing the seven
liberal arts; but converting the scholarly details into ... Although hidden beneath
the shadowy veil of allegory, the account given by Martianus Capella was replete
with ...

Astronomical Knowledge Transmission Through Illustrated Aratea Manuscripts

Author: Marion Dolan

Publisher: Springer

ISBN: 3319567845

Page: 464

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This carefully researched monograph is a historical investigation of the illustrated Aratea astronomical manuscript and its many interpretations over the centuries. Aratus' 270 B.C.E. Greek poem describing the constellations and astrological phenomena was translated and copied over 800 years into illuminated manuscripts that preserved and illustrated these ancient stories about the constellations. The Aratea survives in its entirety due to multiple translations from Greek to Latin and even to Arabic, with many illuminated versions being commissioned over the ages. The survey encompasses four interrelated disciplines: history of literature, history of myth, history of science, and history of art. Aratea manuscripts by their nature are a meeting place of these distinct branches, and the culling of information from historical literature and from the manuscripts themselves focuses on a wider, holistic view; a narrow approach could not provide a proper prospective. What is most essential to know about this work is that because of its successive incarnations it has survived and been reinterpreted through the centuries, which speaks to its importance in all of these disciplines. This book brings a better understanding of the history, changes and transmission of the original astronomical Phaenomena poem. Historians, art historians, astronomy lovers, and historians of astronomy will learn more specialized details concerning the Aratea and how the tradition survived from the Middle Ages. It is a credit to the poetry of Aratus and the later interpreters of the text that its pagan aspects were not edited nor removed, but respected and maintained in the exact same form despite the fact that all sixty Aratea manuscripts mentioned in this study were produced under the rule of Christianity.

Thinkers Saints Heretics

by Virginia Sease

Every art is a path of schooling; even today,such a path can lead the human
being deep into the spiritual world. Martianus Capella To begin,I would like to
turn back to a very early text about the Seven Liberal Arts by Martianus Capella ...

Thinkers Saints Heretics

Author: Virginia Sease

Publisher: Temple Lodge Publishing

ISBN: 1902636902

Page: 210

View: 751

The authors embark on a broad historical survey of the culture and historyexoteric and esotericof the Middle Ages. Their journey takes in King Arthur and the Celtic mysteries; Francis of Assisi, the Franciscans and the School of Chartres; Thomas Aquinas, Averroes, and the Dominicans; Cabbala and Jewish mysticism; heretics and the Cathars; Templar secrets; more.

Chaucer Name Dictionary

by Jacqueline de Weever

Quadrivium of Martianus Capella: Its Place in the Intellectual History of Western
Europe. ̄ Arts libéraux et philosophie au moyen âge(1969): 959¥967; The
Weddingof Philology and Mercury. Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts,
 ...

Chaucer Name Dictionary

Author: Jacqueline de Weever

Publisher: Routledge

ISBN: 1135614539

Page: 472

View: 148

First Published in 1996. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Classical Rhetoric Its Christian Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times

by George Alexander Kennedy

... the eleventh and twelfth centuries, where rhetoric was a regular discipline
within a framework of study of the liberal arts. ... and Rhetoric for Herennius.1
Martianus Capella The medieval program of seven liberal arts can be traced
back to the ...

Classical Rhetoric Its Christian Secular Tradition from Ancient to Modern Times

Author: George Alexander Kennedy

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

ISBN: 9780807847695

Page: 345

View: 647

Since its original publication by UNC Press in 1980, this book has provided thousands of students with a concise introduction and guide to the history of the classical tradition in rhetoric, the ancient but ever vital art of persuasion. Now, George Ken

Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages

by Dr Nicholas Morton

William Harris Stahl (New York, 1952); Martianus Capella, The Marriage of
Mercury and Philology, William Hariis Stahl and Richard Johnson, with E.L.
Burge (trans.), in Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts (2 vols, New York
, 1971); ...

Crusading and Warfare in the Middle Ages

Author: Dr Nicholas Morton

Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.

ISBN: 1409461033

Page: 246

View: 883

The fifteen essays in this volume cover a range of topics from the Carolingian period through to the early fourteenth century. Some offer new insight upon long-contested issues, some open up new areas of debate connected to the history of crusading, while others use innovative methodologies to unlock the potential of various types of source material including: manuscript illuminations depicting warfare, Templar graffiti, German crusading songs, and crusading charters.

A History of Classical Scholarship

by John Edwin Sandys

In northern Africa, before its conquest by the Vandals, Martianus Capella
produced (c. 410-427) 1 an ency- McfpeUaS clopaedia of the seven liberal arts in
the form of an allegory representing the marriage of Mercury and Philologia, who
is ...

A History of Classical Scholarship

Author: John Edwin Sandys

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 1108027067

Page: 706

View: 838

This comprehensive history of classical learning from the sixth century BCE to 1900 was first published between 1903 and 1908.

The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum of William Durand of Mende

by Timothy M. Thibodeau

The Art of Courtly Love, by Andreas Capellanus. Translated with an ... The
Didascalicon of Hugh of Saint Victor: A Medieval Guide to the Arts. Translated
with an introduction by Jerome Taylor. Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal
Arts. Vol.

The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum of William Durand of Mende

Author: Timothy M. Thibodeau

Publisher: Columbia University Press

ISBN: 023151221X

Page: 168

View: 675

The Rationale Divinorum Officiorum is arguably the most important medieval treatise on the symbolism of church architecture and rituals of worship. Written by the French bishop William Durand of Mende (1230-1296), the treatise is ranked with the Bible as one of the most frequently copied and disseminated texts in all of medieval Christianity. It served as an encyclopedic compendium and textbook for liturgists and remains an indispensable guide for understanding the significance of medieval ecclesiastical art and worship ceremonies. This book marks the first English translation of the prologue and book one of the Rationale in almost two centuries. Timothy M. Thibodeau begins with a brief biography of William Durand and a discussion of the importance of the work during its time. Thibodeau compares previous translations of the Rationale in the medieval period and afterward. Then he presents his translation of the prologue and book one. The prologue discusses the principles of allegorical interpretation of the liturgy, while book one features detailed descriptions of the various parts of the church and its ecclesiastical ornaments. It also features extensive commentary on cemeteries, various rites of consecration and dedication, and a discussion of the sacraments. Thibodeau is a well-respected historian who has published extensively on the history of Christianity and the liturgy of the medieval Church. He is also coeditor of the critical edition of the Rationale in Latin. His translation is an indispensable guide for both scholars and general readers who hope to gain a richer understanding of medieval art, architecture, and culture.

The Tale of Cupid and Psyche

by Apuleius

Martianus. Capella. The. Marriage. of. Philology. and. Mercury. I.7. Some time in
the late fifth century (the 470s or 480s), Martianus Capella, a native of Roman
Carthage, wrote an encyclopedia of the seven liberal arts that he cryptically ...

The Tale of Cupid and Psyche

Author: Apuleius

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

ISBN: 1603843299

Page: 136

View: 980

Is Cupid and Psyche a romance, a folktale, a Platonic allegory of the nature of the soul, a Jungian tale of individuation, or an archetypal dream? This volume provides Joel Relihan's lively translation of this best known section of Apuleius' Golden Ass, some useful and illustrative parallels, and an engaging discussion of what to make of this classic story.

Critical Pasts

by Philip Smallwood

The English translation of Martianus's Latin is based on that of W. H. Stahl and
E. L. Burge, Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts, 2 vols. (New York:
Columbia University Press, 1977), 2: 3. Translations from Old High German are
my ...

Critical Pasts

Author: Philip Smallwood

Publisher: Bucknell University Press

ISBN: 9780838755952

Page: 212

View: 709

This volume assembles new thinking on the theory, practice, and cultural value of the history of literary criticism. Focusing on a theme that has attracted relatively little developed theoretical commentary hitherto, the authors of these essays draw on specialist areas of critical history - and different kinds of problems - to illustrate the paradoxes that attend any attempt to write the history of critical writing. dimension of restoration criticism, the relations between poetry and criticism, and a test case in eighteenth-century criticism's reception aesthetics. Other essays consider relations between eighteenth-century critical and literary history, between romanticism and New Historicism, and the various ways in which present and past criticism is interrelated. In an introduction to the volume, the editor calls for a clearer confrontation with the representational issues of critical history by those who write about the critical past.

Comparative Criticism Volume 1 The Literary Canon

by Elinor Shaffer

The Snow - Leavis controversy of the 1960s , it is widely supposed , impinged
upon medieval studies only to the extent ... et Mercurizo of Martianus Capella
upon which it draws , the seven liberal arts are represented as personified
goddesses ...

Comparative Criticism Volume 1 The Literary Canon

Author: Elinor Shaffer

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

ISBN: 9780521222969

Page: 348

View: 566

This is a yearbook sponsored by the British Comparative Literature Association which promotes comparative literary studies.

Carolingian Scholarship and Martianus Capella

by Mariken Teeuwen

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 ...

Carolingian Scholarship and Martianus Capella

Author: Mariken Teeuwen

Publisher: Brepols Pub

ISBN: 9782503531786

Page: 391

View: 667

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.