Poetry and Exegesis in Premodern Latin Christianity

Willemien Otten, Ph.D. (1989) on The Anthropology of Johannes Scottus Eriugena, is professor of the History of Christianity and Dean of Theology at Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Her publications focus on early Christian and medieval theology and intellectual culture. Among her recent publications are From Paradise to Paradigm. A Study of Twelfth-Century Humanism (Leiden 2004) and, co-edited with J. Frishman and G. Rouwhorst, Religious Identity and the Problem of Historical Foundation. The Foundational Character of Authoritative Sources in the History of Christianity and Judaism (Leiden 2004).
Karla Pollmann, Ph.D. (1990) on the Carmen adversus Marcionitas, Habilitation (1994) on Augustine’s De doctrina christiana, is professor of Classics at St Andrews University, Scotland. Among her most recent publications are Statius, Thebaid 12. Introduction, Text, and Commentary (Paderborn 2004) and, co-edited with M. Vessey, Augustine and the Disciplines (Oxford 2005). Currently, she is directing an international and interdisciplinary five-year project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, on the reception of Augustine from 430 to 2000 (www.st-and.ac.uk/classics/after-augustine), in which Otten acts as a principal collaborator.

I. THEORY
H. Westra, Augustine and Poetic Exegesis
M. Vessey, Quid facit cum Horatio Hieronymus? Christian Latin Poetry and Scriptural Poetics
M.B. Pranger, Time and the Integrity of Poetry. Ambrose and Augustine
II. INDIVIDUAL AUTHORS AND WORKS
R. P.H. Green, The Evangeliorum Libri of Juvencus: Exegesis by Stealth
J. den Boeft, Cantatur ad delectationem. Ambrose’s lyric poetry
J. Clarke, Technological Innovation and Poetical Exegesis: The Glass Lamp in Prudentius’ Cathemerinon 5
R. Chiappiniello, The Carmen ad uxorem and the genre of the epithalamium
M. Hoffmann, Principles of Structure and Unity in Latin Biblical Epic
A. Arweiler, Interpreting cultural change: Semiotics and exegesis in Dracontius’ De laudibus Dei
Ch.O. Tommasi, Exegesis by Distorting Pagan Myths in Corippus’ Epic Poetry
M. Herren, Reflections on the Meaning of the Ecloga Theoduli: Where is the Authorial Voice?
K. Smolak, Epic Poetry as Exegesis: ‘The Song of the Good War’ (Eupolemius)
W. Otten, The Poetology of Biblical Tragedy in Abelard’s Planctus
III. OVERVIEWS, COMPARISONS
A.A.R. Bastiaensen, Biblical Poetry in Latin Liturgical Texts
H. Müller, The Saint as Preacher. Remarks on a Rare Motif in Late Antique and Medieval Poetry
K. Pollmann, Poetry and Suffering: Metrical Paraphrases of Eucherius of Lyons’ Passio Acaunensium Martyrum
G. Dinkova-Bruun, Biblical Versifications from Late Antiquity to the Middle of the Thirteenth Century: History or Allegory?
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