John Ridewall, Fulgentius metaforalis

Ralph Hanna (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

464 Seiten

2025
Liverpool University Press (Verlag)
978-1-83624-520-9 (ISBN)

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John Ridewall's Fulgencius metaforalis is a moralising commentary on Fulgentius's sixth-century Mitologiae, an introduction to the classical gods and their stories. Composed in Oxford in the 1330s and subject to almost immediate local (and broader English) use, the work was a pan-European success, and more than 100 manuscripts preserve Ridewall's text in some form. Fulgencius metaforalis has been edited before, nearly a century ago, by a great medievalist, Hans Liebeschütz; he, however, did not recognise that the manuscript he presented was a fragment, containing only about one-third of the whole. This volume provides Ridewall's entire text, as usually communicated, with a translation. In addition, it contains a substantial introduction; this outlines various difficulties in the transmission of Fulgencius and evidence for the work's extensive medieval reception. Annotation to the text identifies and indexes Ridewall's sources – most of his mythographic knowledge reflects either Remigius of Auxerre's commentary on Martianus Capella or the Third Vatican Mythographer; and offers one manuscript tabula/index, useful for seeing how readers may have accessed the work piecemeal (by manuscript consultation, not, as frequently claimed, as a set of 'memory diagrams').

Ralph Hanna is Professor of Palaeography (Emeritus) and Emeritus Fellow at Keble College, Oxford. He is a former Guggenheim Fellow, former Fellow of the Radcliffe Institute (Harvard University), and winner of the British Academy Sir Israel Gollancz Prize for English Language 2015. His many books with Liverpool University Press include John Ridewall, Fulgentius metaforalis (2023), Looking at Medieval Books: Learning to See (2023), Robert Holcot, exegete (2021) and Malachy the Irishman, On Poison (2020).

Abbreviations
Preface
Introduction
The author: on John Ridewall
The Fulgencius and its dissemination
The use and influence of the text
Constructing Fulgencius: Ridewall's library
Editing Fulgencius metaforalis
Appendix: notes on the manuscripts
Bibliography

Fulgencius metaforalis: The text
Book 1
1 Idolatry
2 Saturn/Prudence
3 Jupiter/Love and Friendship
4 Juno/Memory
5 Neptune/Intelligence
6 Pluto/Foresight
7 Apollo/Truth
8 Phaeton/Ambition
9 Mercury/Eloquence
10 Danae/Modesty and Women's Greed
11 Ganymede/Sodomy
12 Perseus/Courage
13 Alceste/Marital Continence

Book 2
1 Paris/Injustice
2 Minerva/Contemplative Life
3 Juno/Worldly Life
4 Venus/The Life of Pleasure

Appendix: Two inserted discussions

Textual notes
The A tabula
A brief commentary

Indexes
Biblical references
Fontes

Erscheinungsdatum	15.09.2025
Reihe/Serie	Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies
Verlagsort	Liverpool
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Klassiker / Moderne Klassiker
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-83624-520-3 / 1836245203
ISBN-13	978-1-83624-520-9 / 9781836245209
Zustand	Neuware