The Sacred and the Obscure: Greek in the Carolingian Reception of Martianus Capella
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2012
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Carolingian scholars paid considerable attention to the Greek found in Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, a late antique Latin work full of obscurities in language and imagery. This article, focusing on glosses on De nuptiis from the oldest gloss tradition, demonstrates that a range of material was available to ninth-century scholars to elucidate Martianus’s Greek and that Greek seems, at times, to have served as a means to obscure. I argue that their interest in obscurity reflects a widespread epistemology and strategy of concealment, hence their intellectual investment in Martianus. For ninth-century readers, then, the Greek in the glossed Martianus manuscripts, however decorative it may have been, also operated at the core of medieval hermeneutics. |
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eng |
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info:eu-repo/semantics/closedAccess |
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O'Sullivan , S 2012 , ' The Sacred and the Obscure: Greek in the Carolingian Reception of Martianus Capella ' Journal of Medieval Latin , vol 22 , no. null , pp. 67-94 . DOI: 10.1484/J.JML.1.10252 |
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