1st Edition
The Poetry of Alcuin of York A Translation with Introduction and Commentary
By Joseph Pucci
Copyright 2024
492 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
492 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
492 Pages
4 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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This volume offers for the first time in any language a translation of the poetic corpus of Alcuin of York (c. 735–804), numbering some 339 individual pieces and nearly 7,000 lines.
An introduction touches on Alcuin’s life, his writings (including doubtful works and pseudepigrapha), his Latinity, his place in the Latin literary tradition, and the manuscripts, textual history, and editions of... Read more
1. Introduction; 2. Maps; 3. The Poems; 5. Appendices.
Biography
Joseph Pucci, Professor of Classics and of Medieval Cultures at Brown University, studies later and medieval Latin languages and literatures. He has published over seventy articles, chapters, and reviews, and, among other books, is the author of The Full-Knowing Reader (1998); Augustine’s Virgilian Retreat (2014); and The Classics Renewed (with S. McGill, 2016).
