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The Figure of Minerva in Medieval Literature
William F. Hodapp
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Belletristik / Essays, Feuilleton, Literaturkritik, Interviews
Beschreibung
First major study of the representation of Minerva in the Middle Ages, giving insights into classical reception.
Images of Minerva, the Roman goddess of wisdom, appear frequently in medieval literature, derived from antique culture and literature; redemptress, mistress of the liberal arts, patroness of princes, idol, and Venus' ally. Throughout the high to late Middle Ages, Peter Abelard, Guido delle Colonne, John Gower, Geoffrey Chaucer, and Christine de Pizan, among others, drew on and developed these images, but they are particularly prevalent in a number of fifteenth- and early sixteenth-century English and Scots allegorical and dream-vision poems, including John Lydgate's
Reson and Sensuallyte and
Temple of Glas, the anonymous
Court of Sapience and
Assembly of Gods, James I's
Kingis Quair, Charles d'Orleans'
Fortunes Stabilnes, and William Dunbar's
Golden Targe.
This book offers the first full-length examination of these depictions, bringing out the receptionof classical culture. Via close readings of the various poets, it enables us to understand how her figure was used, and also, and most importantly, to interpret and transform the poetic and cultural traditions from which she springs.
WILLIAM F. HODAPP is Professor of English and Coordinator of Medieval and Renaissance Studies at The College of St. Scholastica, Duluth, Minnesota.
