Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies John Ridewall, Fulgencius metaforalis, (Hardcover)

<p>John Ridewall's <em>Fulgencius metaforalis</em> is a moralising commentary on Fulgentius's sixth-century <em>Mitologiae</em>, 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. <em>Fulgencius metaforalis</em> 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').</p>

• Exeter Medieval Texts and Studies John Ridewall, Fulgencius metaforalis, (Hardcover)
• Author: Liverpool University Press
• ISBN: 9781837644759
• Format: Hardcover
• Publication Date: 2023-10-27
• Page Count: 464