The Berlin Commentary on Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Book II

Garstad

The Berlin Commentary on Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Book II
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Brill
Country
NL
Published
1 November 1997
Pages
196
ISBN
9789004109681

The Berlin Commentary on Martianus Capella’s De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Book II

Garstad

Completing Professor Westra’s earlier work on Book 1 (published by Brill as Mittellateinische Studien und Texte, 20 ), this critical edition presents a late medieval commentary on Book II of Martianus Capella’s influential handbook of the Seven Liberal Arts. It also provides an index of proper names to both Book I and Book II. Using allegorical interpretation of the programmatic marriage of Mercury (eloquence) and Philology (learning) as a speculative, proto-scientific method of enquiry, the commentator provides encyclopedic coverage of medieval philosophy, theology, science, myth, language, literature and education. Intellectually the author is still connected with early scholasticsm and the School of Chartres, being more sympathetic to Neoplatonism than to the newly arrived Aristotelians. The present edition has been keyed to Dick’s as well as Willis’ edition of Martianus Capella.

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