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Introduction |
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1 Intercultural Imitation in Christian Latin Poetry as a Path to the Medieval Poetics of Alterity |
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2 The Women of the Old Testament in Early Medieval Poetry: Judith and the Others |
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The Canon of Biblical Heroines in One Verse -- The Model of Avitus -- The Intercultural Foresight of Dracontius: Pagan and Christian Heroines -- The Other Judiths, from Aldhelm to Milo -- Instances in the Carolingian Age -- Exegetical Sources and Later Developments -- Other Biblical Heroines |
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3 Ad Supplementum Sensus: Hermeneutic Plurality and Increase in Meaning in Biblical Poetics from the Middle Ages to Derrida |
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The End of Exclusion -- Medieval Precursors -- Ineffability and Allegory -- The Legitimacy of a Heteronomous Aesthetic |
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4 A Repressed Beauty: Biblical Poetics and the Legitimisation of Poetry in Medieval Culture |
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The Exclusion of Poetry from the Medieval Cultural System -- Foundations of a Possible Legitimisation: The Symbolism of Eriugena and Chartres -- The Anomaly of Biblical Poetry -- Exegetical Poetry and the Rhetoric of Otherness (The modus symbolicus) -- Double-Level Poetics -- Technicalities of Exegetical Beauty Multifigurality -- Poetry about the Exegetical Process -- Implicit Poetics and Explicit Theories |
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5 Reticere nefas: The Poetics of Communication in the Carolingian Age |
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The Poetry of Writing -- The Poetry of Scripture -- The Invocation of the Reader and the Circle of Communication Relational Poetry |
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6 A Lexical Journey through Alcuin's Poetry |
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Witnesses and Judgements -- The Editions -- Tradition and Innovation in Poetic Genres and Themes: A Lexical Journey (The Historical-Hagiographical Poem: Regnum and pietas -- Epigraphical Poetry: Domus, viator -- Lyrical poetry) |
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7 Some Linguistic Features of Popular Songs in Medieval and Modern Times |
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The Ritual Aspect -- Anisosyllabism -- Music-Text Relationship Alterations of Accentuation -- Combined Presence of Archaisms and Linguistic Vulgarisms -- Development of an Internal Tradition -- Plurality of Versions |
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8 Versus ad picturas in the Carolingian Age |
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History of the Genre -- The Carolingian Era and the Problem of Images -- Carolingian Typologies -- The Cycles of the Great Bibles of Tours Appendix: Vivian's Bible, Poetic Captions (Selection) |
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9 Verse Historiography in the Carolingian Era: The Political Typology of the Ingelheim Paintings |
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The Studies -- The Political Use of Biblical References -- The Poeta Saxo Ermold The Biblical Cycle -- The Cycle of Power -- The Meaning of the Paintings |
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10 The Sense of Time in Carolingian Poetry: Horologium nocturnum and the Christian Zodiac in Pacificus of Verona |
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The Inscription of Verona -- The Horologium Nocturnum -- Avranches -- Chartres -- Vatican -- Paris 12117 and the Link with the Astrolabe -- Sense of Time and Stellar Observation in the Middle Ages -- Computistical Verse -- Appendix: Pacificus's Epitaph |
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11 Everyday Life in the Literary Inscriptions of the Carolingian Monastery |
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The Matter of Poetic Epigraphy -- Carolingian Monastic Epigraphy: Saint-Riquier -- Epitaphs -- Vestments and Furniture -- Locales The Role of Alcuin |
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12 New Forms of Verse Collections in the Carolingian Laboratory |
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Late Antiquity -- The Carolingian Ages: Authors' Collections -- Local Collections -- Epigraphical Collections -- Biblical Anthologies -- Poetic Anthologies -- Appendix |
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13 The Modern Success and Medieval Marginality of Modoin of Autun's Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa |
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The Meaning of Anonymity -- Karolus Magnus et Leo Papa (KMLP) -- Editions and Studies -- The Problem of Dating and Completeness The Author -- New Developments in the Research -- Hypotheses about the Author Medieval Authority -- Appendix |
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14 A `Post-Colonial' Approach to Medieval Latin Literature? |
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Carolingian Cases -- Extensions -- Second Language Analysis |
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Bibliography: Sources -- Literature |
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Indices: Manuscripts -- Websites -- General Index |
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