Reading the Ovidian Heroine

Metamorphoses Commentaries 1100-1618
Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-90-04-11796-9
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 220, 190 Seiten, Format (B × H): 165 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 535 g

Reihe: Mnemosyne, Supplements

This study investigates the reception of Ovid's heroines in Metamorphoses commentaries written between 1100 and 1618. The Ovidian heroine offers a telling window onto medieval and early modern clerical constructions of gender and selfhood.
In the context of classical representations of the feminine, the book examines Ovid's engagement of the heroine to explore problems of intentionality. The second part of the study presents commentaries by such clerics as William of Orléans, the "Vulgate" commentator, Thomas Walsingham, and Raphael Regius, illustrating the reception of the Ovidian heroine in medieval France and England as well as in Renaissance Italy and Germany.
The works analyzed here show that clerical readings of the feminine in Ovid reflect greater heterogeneity than is commonly alleged. Both moralizing summaries and Latin editions used as schooltexts are discussed.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McKinley, Kathryn

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike

Über Autor(innen)

Kathryn L. McKinley, Ph.D. (1992) in English, University of Delaware, is Assistant Professor of English at Florida International University. She has published on medieval reception of Ovid, including a study of Ovid manuscripts held in England 1100-1500.