The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of admiration, it has found numerous detractors and defenders among classicists and Latin literary critics. This volume explores the scholarly approaches to late Latin poetry that have developed over the last 40 years, and it seeks especially to develop, complement and challenge the seminal concept of the 'Jeweled Style' proposed by Michael Roberts in 1989. While Roberts's monograph has long been a vade mecum within the world of late antique literary studies, a critical reassessment of its validity as a concept is overdue.
This volume invites established and emerging scholars from different research traditions to return to the influential conclusions put forward by Roberts. It asks them to examine the continued relevance of The Jeweled Style and to suggest new ways to engage it. In a joint effort, the nineteen chapters of this volume define and map the jeweled style, extending it to new genres, geographic regions, time periods and methodologies. Each contribution seeks to provide insightful analysis that integrates the last 30 years of scholarship while pursuing ambitious applications of the jeweled style within and beyond the world of late antiquity.
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When Michael Roberts' The Jeweled Style appeared in 1989, those few of us then studying late ancient literary culture knew that our field would never be the same. Revisiting Roberts' book thirty years later, this volume articulates a sociology of literary late antiquity, while proving the staying power of Roberts' vision and voice, applying his method in ways that will animate, and alter, late ancient literary studies going forward. If a work of extraordinary scholarship can also be a page-turner, this is it-a fascinating, and fabulous, collection. -- Joseph Pucci, Professor of Classics and in the Program in Medieval Studies, Brown University, USA The articles that make up A Late Antique Poetics?: The Jeweled Style Revisited form a polychromatic unit: a set of gems that will undoubtedly be welcomed by classicists and medievalists alike, eager to highlight these new and enriching perspectives of analysis. * Bryn Mawr Classical Review *
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Helen Kaufmann is an independent scholar, UK. She has published articles on the poetics of late antique poetry as well as a commentary on Dracontius' Medea (2006). She is particularly interested in the connections between space, place and identity in late Latin poetry.
Joshua Hartman is Visiting Assistant Professor of Classics at Bowdoin College, USA. His research focuses on the relationship between literature and memory, especially during late antiquity. He has published articles on Greek and Roman literature, Roman cultural memory and classical reception in Latin America.
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Bowdoin College, USA
Independent Scholar, UK
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List of Contributors
Preface and Acknowledgments
Notes on Texts and Translations
Abbreivations
Introduction
Joshua Hartman (Bowdoin College, USA) and Helen Kaufmann (independent scholar)
Part I: The Formal Features of the Jeweled Style
1. The Decadent Prehistory of the Jeweled Style
Ian Fielding (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, USA)
2. The Greek Jeweled Style
Fotini Hadjittofi (University of Lisbon, Portugal)
3. Gilding the Lily: The Jeweled Style in Prose Panegyric
Catherine Ware (University College Cork, Ireland)
4. Learning the Jeweled Style
Frances Foster (University of Cambridge, UK)
5. Quantitative Approaches to Late Latin Poetics: Enumeration and Congeries
Joshua Hartman (Bowdoin College, USA) and Jacob Lavernier (independent scholar)
6. The Jeweled Style and Silver Latin Scholarship
Ruth Parkes (University of Wales Trinity Saint David, UK)
7. The Jeweled Style in Early Medieval Poetry
Cillian O'Hogan (University of Toronto, Canada)
8. Digression, Variety and Unity in (Late) Latin Poetry
Helen Kaufmann (independent scholar)
Part II: The Jeweled Style and Late Antique Aesthetics
9. Metaphor Squared
Christoph Schubert (University of Erlangen, Germany)
10. An 'Unjeweled' Christian style? A Look at Augustine's Confessions
Jesus Hernandez Lobato (University of Salamanca, Spain)
11. The Cento and Scripture: An Early Christian Debate over the Poetics of Exegesis
David Ungvary (Bard College, USA)
12. Jeweled Sea Storm Descriptions in Zeno of Verona (and Juvencus)
Francesco Lubian (University of Padova, Italy)
13. Allusive Clusters and Biblical Configurations in Dracontius, De laudibus dei: A Christian Jeweled Style?
Elena Castelnuovo (independent scholar)
14. Vergil's Children: Patterns in Christian Centos and Responses to Vergil's Fourth Eclogue
Scott McGill (Rice University, USA)
15. Architectural Ecphrasis in Venantius Fortunatus: Beyond the Jeweled Style
Carole Newlands (University of Colorado, Boulder, USA)
16. The Jeweled Style in Epigram
Bret Mulligan (Haverford College, USA)
17. The Jeweled Style and Neoplatonism
Andreas Abele (University of Tuebingen, Germany)
Epilogue: The Jeweled Style in Context
Michael Roberts (Wesleyan Memorial University, USA)
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