Research Catalog

Title

Weeping for Dido : the classics in the medieval classroom / Marjorie Curry Woods.

Author

Woods, Marjorie Curry, 1947-

Publication

• Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]
• ©2019

Items in the Library & Off-site

Details

Description

xxi, 176 pages : illustrations (some color); 22 cm.

Summary

Marjorie Curry Woods takes readers into the medieval classroom, where boys identified with Dido, where teachers turned an unfinished classical poem into a bildungsroman about young Achilles and where students not only studied but performed classical works. Woods opens the classroom door by examining teachers' notes and marginal commentary in manuscripts of the Aeneid and two short verse narratives: the Achilleid of Statius and the Ilias latina, a Latin epitome of Homer's Iliad. She focuses on interlinear glosses - individual words and short phrases written above lines of text that elucidate grammar, syntax, and vocabulary, but that also indicate how students engaged with the feelings and motivations of characters. Interlinear and marginal glosses, which were the foundation of the medieval classroom study of classical literature, reveal that in learning the Aeneid, boys studied and empathized with the feelings of female characters; that the unfinished Achilleid was restructured into a complete narrative showing young Achilles mirroring his mentors, including his mother Thetis; and that the Ilias latina offered boys a condensed version of the Iliad focusing on the deaths of young men. Manuscript evidence even indicates how specific passages could be performed. The result is a groundbreaking study that provides a surprising new picture of medieval education and writes a new chapter in the reception history of classical literature.

Series Statement

E.H. Gombrich lecture series

Uniform Title

E. H. Gombrich lecture series.

Alternative Title

Classics in the medieval classroom

Subjects

• Latin literature > Study and teaching
• Education, Medieval
• Virgil
• Education, Medieval > Europe
• Achilleis (Statius, P. Papinius)
• Virgil > Aeneis
• Virgil > Influence
• Statius, P. Papinius (Publius Papinius) > Achilleis
• Ilias Latina
• Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
• Learning and scholarship > History > Medieval, 500-1500
• Europe
• Learning and scholarship > Medieval
• History
• Latin literature > Study and teaching > Europe > History > To 1500
• To 1500
• Aeneis (Virgil)

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• "This book is published as part of the E.H. Gombrich lecture series, cosponsored by the Warburg Institute and Princeton University Press. The lectures upon which this book is based were delivered in October 2014"--Title page verso.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-165) and indexes.

Contents

A Short Introduction -- Chapter 1. Memory, Emotion, and the Death of a Queen: Teaching the Aeneid -- Chapter 2. Troy Books for Boys: Glosses on the Achilleid and Ilias latina -- Chapter 3. Boys Performing Women (and Men): The Classics and After -- Works Cited -- Index Locorum -- Manuscript Index -- General Index.

Call Number

JFD 19-3890

ISBN

• 0691170800
• 9780691170800

OCLC

1032654612

Author

Woods, Marjorie Curry, 1947- author.

Title

Weeping for Dido : the classics in the medieval classroom / Marjorie Curry Woods.

Publisher

Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2019]

Copyright Date

©2019

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

E.H. Gombrich lecture series

E. H. Gombrich lecture series.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 153-165) and indexes.

Chronological Term

To 1500

Other Form:

Online version: Woods, Marjorie Curry, 1947- Weeping for Dido. Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2019 9780691188744 (OCoLC)1083266853

Research Call Number

JFD 19-3890