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ROWMAN & LITTLEFIELD Medievalia et Humanistica No. 39 Studies in Medieval and Renaissance Culture New Series 2014 Edition by With Nina Tomaszewski, Reinhold F. Glei, Wolfgang Polleichtner
Since its founding in 1943, Medievalia et Humanistica has won worldwide recognition as the first scholarly publication in America to devote itself entirely to medieval and Renaissance studies. Since 1970, a new series, sponsored by the Modern Language Association of America and edited by an international board of distinguished scholars and critics, has published interdisciplinary articles. In yearly hardcover volumes, the new series publishes significant scholarship, criticism, and reviews treating all facets of medieval and Renaissance culture: history, art, literature, music, science, law, economics, and philosophy.Volume 39 showcases the interdisciplinary nature of the series with five articles on topics ranging from Christian-Jewish controversies, the Muses, and medieval comedy. It features a final essay from Medievalia et Humanistica's longtime editor Paul Maurice Clogan. Volume 39 also includes seven review notices. Table of contents :- Editorial NoteManuscript Submission GuidelinesArticles for Future VolumesPrefaceIn Memoriam Paul Maurice Clogan (1931-2012)Reinhold F. GleiMountains as a Novel Staging Ground in Late-Medieval/Early Modern Literature: Felix Fabri's Evagatorium (1493), Aeneas Silvio Piccolomini's Historia Austrialis (after 1452) and Emperor Maximilian's Tewrdank from 1517Albrecht Classen"I still retain the Empire of my Minde": Thomas Ross's Continuation of Silius Italicus (1661; 1672)Eva von ContzenLiturgical and Sacramental Imagery in the Disputation between a Christian and a JewLuuk HouwenCon le Muse in Parnaso: Classical and Medieval Mythography on the Pierides and a Possible Source for Giovanni BoccaccioSimona LorenziniNarrative, Elegy, Parody: The Medieval Latin Comedy Pamphilus, Gliscerium et BirriaKurt Smolak Review Notices Bowers, John M., An Introduction to the "Gawain" Poet.(Maik Goth)Jansen, Katherine L., Drell, Joanna and Andrews, Frances, eds., Medieval Italy: Texts in Translation.(James A. Palmer)Lopez-Morillas, Consuelo, El Coran de Toledo. Edicion y estudio del ms. 235 de la Biblioteca de Castilla-La Mancha.(Ana Echevarria Arsuaga)Ritter, Carolin, Ovidius redivivus. Die Epistulae Heroides des Mark Alexander Boyd. Edition, UEbersetzung und Kommentar der Briefe Atalanta Meleagro (1), Eurydice Orpheo (6), Philomela Tereo (9), Venus Adoni (15).(Christoph Pieper)Schneider, Bernd and Meckelnborg, Christina, eds., Odyssea Homeri a Francisco Griffolino Aretino in Latinum translata. Die lateinische Odyssee-UEbersetzung des Francesco Griffolini. (Wolfgang Polleichtner)Wilkens, Karsten, ed., Johannes Gaza: Bacchi Piratae. Eine humanistische Warnung vor dem Alkohol (1531). Einleitung, Edition, Kommentar und Versuch einer Einordnung.(Markus Stachon)Zacher, Samantha. Preaching the Converted: The Style and Rhetoric of the Vercelli Book Homilies. (Mary Dockray-Miller)