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Carmina Burana / edited and translated by David A. Traill.
- Title
- Carmina Burana / edited and translated by David A. Traill.
- Publication
- Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018.
- ©2018
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| Status | Vol/Date | Format | Access | Call Number | Item Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| v.2 | Text | Request in advance | PA8133.S8 C294 2017 v.2 | Off-site | |
| v.1 | Text | Request in advance | PA8133.S8 C294 2017 v.1 | Off-site |
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- Additional Authors
- Traill, David A., 1942-
- Description
- 2 volumes (xxix, 567; 794 pages); 21 cm.
- Summary
- "Carmina Burana, literally 'Songs from Beuern,' is named after the village where the manuscript was found. The songbook consists of nearly 250 poems, on subjects ranging from sex and gambling to crusades and corruption. Compiled in the thirteenth century in South Tyrol, a German-speaking region of Italy, it is the largest surviving collection of secular Medieval Latin verse and provides insights into the vibrant social, spiritual, and intellectual life of the Middle Ages. The multilingual codex includes works by leading Latin poets such as the Archpoet, Walter of Châtillon, and the canonist Peter of Blois, as well as stanzas by German lyric poets. More than half these poems are preserved nowhere else. A selection from Carmina Burana first appeared in Victorian England in 1884 under the provocative title Wine, Women and Song. The title Carmina Burana remains fixed in the popular imagination today, conjured vividly by Carl Orff's famous cantata -- no Medieval Latin lyrics are better known throughout the world. This new presentation of the medieval classic in its entirety makes the anthology accessible in two volumes to Latin lovers and English readers alike."--
- Series Statement
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; DOML 48-49
- Uniform Title
- Carmina Burana. English (Traill)
- Carmina Burana. Latin (Traill)
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library 48.
- Dumbarton Oaks medieval library ; 49.
- Subject
- Genre/Form
- Latin poetry, Medieval and modern.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (volume 2, pages 743-752) and indexes.
- Language (note)
- Texts primarily in Latin, with some texts in German or French; English translations on facing pages; introduction and notes in English.
- Processing Action (note)
- committed to retain
- Contents
- volume I. Introduction ; Original collection, 1-102 ; Notes -- volume II. Original collection, 103-228 ; Additional pieces, 1-26 ; Notes.
- ISBN
- 9780674660250
- 0674660250
- 9780674980976
- 0674980972
- LCCN
- ^^2017018924
- OCLC
- 981990303
- SCSB-11678209
- Owning Institutions
- Harvard Library