European Literature and the Latin Middle Ages by Curtius, Ernst Robert -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Page Title Page Copyright Page Contents Introduction to the 2013 Edition Translator’s Note Note of Acknowledgment Author’s Foreword to the English Translation Guiding Principles 1: European Literature 2: The Latin Middle Ages

1. Dante and the Antique Poets 2. Antique and Modern Worlds 3. The Middle Ages 4. The Latin Middle Ages 5. Romania

3: Literature and Education

1. The Liberal Arts 2. The Concept of the Artes in the Middle Ages 3. Grammar 4. Anglo-Saxon and Carolingian Studies 5. Curriculum Authors 6. The Universities 7. Sententiae and Exempla

4: Rhetoric

1. Position of Rhetoric 2. Rhetoric in Antiquity 3. System of Antique Rhetoric 4. Late Roman Antiquity 5. Jerome 6. Augustine 7. Cassiodorus and Isidore 8. Ars dictaminis 9. Wibald of Corvey and John of Salisbury 10. Rhetoric, Painting, Music

5: Topics

1. Topics of Consolatory Oratory 2. Historical Topics 3. Affected Modesty 4. Topics of the Exordium 5. Topics of the Conclusion 6. Invocation of Nature 7. The World Upsidedown 8. Boy and Old Man 9. Old Woman and Girl

6: The Goddess Natura

1. From Ovid to Claudian 2. Bernard Silvestris 3. Sodomy 4. Alan of Lille 5. Eros and Morality 6. The Romance of the Rose

7: Metaphorics

1. Nautical Metaphors 2. Personal Metaphors 3. Alimentary Metaphors 4. Corporal Metaphors 5. Theatrical Metaphors

8: Poetry and Rhetoric

1. Antique Poetics 2. Poetry and Prose 3. System of Medieval Styles 4. Judicial, Political, and Panegyrical Oratory in Medieval Poetry 5. Inexpressibility Topoi 6. Outdoing 7. Eulogy of Contemporaries

9: Heroes and Rulers

1. Heroism 2. Homeric Heroes 3. Virgil 4. Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages 5. Praise of Rulers 6. Arms and Studies 7. Nobility of Soul 8. Beauty

10: The Ideal Landscape

1. Exotic Fauna and Flora 2. Greek Poetry 3. Virgil 4. Rhetorical Occasions for the Description of Nature 5. The Grove 6. The Pleasance 7. Epic Landscape

11: Poetry and Philosophy

1. Homer and Allegory 2. Poetry and Philosophy 3. Philosophy in Late Pagan Antiquity 4. Philosophy and Christianity

12: Poetry and Theology

1. Dante and Giovanni Del Virgilio 2. Albertino Mussato 3. Dante’s Self-Exegesis 4. Petrarch and Boccaccio

13: The Muses 14: Classicism

1. Genres, and Catalogues of Authors 2. The “Ancients” and the “Moderns” 3. Canon Formation in the Church 4. Medieval Canon 5. Modern Canon Formation

15: Mannerism

1. Classicism and Mannerism 2. Rhetoric and Mannerism 3. Formal Mannerisms 4. Recapitulation 5. Epigram and the Style of pointes 6. Baltasar GraciÁn

16: The Book as Symbol

1. Goethe on Tropes 2. Greece 3. Rome 4. The Bible 5. Early Middle Ages 6. High Middle Ages 7. The Book of Nature 8. Dante 9. Shakespeare 10. West and East

17: Dante

1. Dante as a Classic 2. Dante and Latinity 3. The Commedia and the Literary Genres 4. Exemplary Figures in the Commedia 5. The Personnel of the Commedia 6. Myth and Prophecy 7. Dante and the Middle Ages

18: Epilogue

1. Retrospect 2. The Beginnings of the Vernacular Literatures 3. Mind and Form 4. Continuity 5. Imitation and Creation

Excursuses

I: Misunderstandings of Antiquity in the Middle Ages II: Devotional Formula and Humility III: Grammatical and Rhetorical Technical Terms as Metaphors IV: Jest and Earnest in Medieval Literature

1. Late Antiquity 2. The Church and Laughter 3. Jest and Earnest in the Eulogy of Rulers 4. Jest in Hagiography 5. Comic Elements in the Epic 6. Kitchen Humor and Other Ridicula

V: Late Antique Literary Studies

1. Quintilian 2. Late Roman Grammar 3. Macrobius

VI: Early Christian and Medieval Literary Studies

1. Jerome 2. Cassiodorus 3. Isidore 4. Aldhelm 5. Early Christian Poetry 6. Notker Balbulus 7. Aimeric 8. Literary Studies in the Twelfth and Thirteenth Centuries

VII: The Mode of Existence of the Medieval Poet VIII: The Poet’s Divine Frenzy IX: Poetry as Perpetuation X: Poetry as Entertainment XI: Poetry and Scholasticism XII: The Poet’s Pride XIII: Brevity as an Ideal of Style XIV: Etymology as a Category of Thought XV: Numerical Composition XVI: Numerical Apothegms XVII: Mention of the Author’s Name in Medieval Literature XVIII: The “Chivalric System of the Virtues” XIX: The Ape as Metaphor XX: Spain’s Cultural “Belatedness” XXI: God as Maker XXII: Theological Art-Theory in the Spanish Literature of the Seventeenth Century XXIII: Calderón’s Theory of Art and the Artes Liberales XXIV: Montesquieu, Ovid, and Virgil XXV: Diderot and Horace

Appendix: The Medieval Bases of Western Thought Bibliographical Note Abbreviations Index

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