Medieval Mythography, Volume 3 : The Emergence of Italian Humanism, 1321-1475 / Volume 3, The emergence of Italian humanism, 1321-1475 / The emergence of Italian humanism, 1321-1475 / Volume 3,

With this volume, Jane Chance concludes her monumental study of the history of mythography in medieval literature. Her focus here is the advent of hybrid mythography, the transformation of mythological commentary by blending the scholarly with the courtly and the personal. Chance's in-depth exa...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Chance, Jane, 1945- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2015
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Ecole de Chartres.
Humanism > Italy.
Mythology > Historiography.
Criticism, Medieval > History.
Literature, Medieval > Roman influences.
Literature, Medieval > History and criticism.
Latin literature, Medieval and modern > History and criticism.
Civilization, Medieval > Classical influences.
Mythology, Classical, in literature.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Abbreviations and citation editions
  • Chronology of medieval mythographers and commentary authors
  • Introduction
  • Toward a subjective mythography : allegorical figurae and authorial self-projection
  • Dante's self-mythography : the inverted Ovid "commentary" of the Commedia (1321) and its family glosses
  • "Iohannes de Certaldo" : self-validation in Boccaccio's "Genealogies of the gods" (ca. 1350-75)
  • Franco-Italian Christine de Pizan's Epistre othea (1399-1401) : a feminized commentary on Ovid
  • Coluccio Salutati's Hercules as Vir perfectus : justifying Seneca's Hercules furens in de Laboribus Herculis (1378?-1405)
  • Cristoforo landino's "Judgment of Aeneas" in the Disputationes camaldulenses (1475)
  • Conclusion.

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