A commentary on Nigel of Canterbury's Miracles of the Virgin /
Nigel of Canterbury, also known as Longchamp and Whiteacre, wrote toward the end of the so-called twelfth-century Renaissance. He was a Benedictine monk of Christ Church when Thomas Becket was martyred, and a star of Anglo-Latin literature while the Angevin kings held sway over a vast empire that en...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Washington, D.C. :
Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection,
[2022].
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| Series: | Supplements to the Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ;
supplement to DOML 75. |
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| Summary: | Nigel of Canterbury, also known as Longchamp and Whiteacre, wrote toward the end of the so-called twelfth-century Renaissance. He was a Benedictine monk of Christ Church when Thomas Becket was martyred, and a star of Anglo-Latin literature while the Angevin kings held sway over a vast empire that encompassed not only the British Isles but also western France. The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library volume features, alongside the Latin, the first-ever English translation of Nigel's second-longest poem, Miracles of the Virgin. The Miracles is the oldest extant collection of versified miracles of Mary in Latin and indeed in any language. The seventeen narratives, telling a gamut of tales from diabolic pacts to pregnant abbesses, gave scope for Nigel to display skills as a storyteller and stylist, while recounting the miraculous mercy of the Virgin. This supplement offers an extensive commentary to facilitate appreciation of the Miracles as poetry by a medieval writer deeply imbued in the long tradition of Latin literature. |
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| Item Description: | Includes index. "Supplement to DOML 75, Nigel of Canterbury : Miracles of the Virgin ; Tract on abuses, edited and translated by Jan M. Ziolkowski and Ronald E. Pepin, published by Harvard University Press"--Series title page. |
| Physical Description: | xvi, 262 pages ; 21 cm. |
| ISBN: | 9780884024941 0884024946 |