- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Connections in Archaic Latin Prose
- The Language and Style of the Fragmentary Republican Historians
- The <i>Bellum Africum</i>
- Hair, Hegemony, and Historiography: Caesar’s Style and its Earliest Critics
- Cicero’s Adaptation of Legal Latin in the <i>De legibus</i>
- The Language of Epicureanism in Cicero: The Case of Atomism
- Pope’s Spider and Cicero’s Writing
- The Impracticability of Latin ‘Kunstprosa’
- Poetic Influence on Prose: The Case of the Younger Seneca
- The Language of Pliny the Elder
- Omisso speciosiore stili genere
- The Poetics of Fiction: Poetic Influence on the Language of Apuleius’ <i>Metamorphoses</i>
- ‘Langues réduites au lexique’? The Languages of Latin Technical Prose
- Gregory of Tours and Poetry: Prose into Verse and Verse into Prose
- Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose
- The Varieties of Bede’s Prose
- Translator’s Latin
- Realistic Writing in the Tenth Century: Gerhard of Augsburg’s <i>Vita S. Uodalrici</i>
- William of Malmesbury and the Latin Classics Revisited
- Metrical and Rhythmical Clausulae in Medieval Latin Prose: Some Aspects and Problems
- Bibliography
- Index verborum
- Index locorum
- Index rerum
Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose
Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose
- Chapter:
- (p.320) (p.321) Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose
- Source:
- Aspects of the Language of Latin Prose
- Author(s):
Michael Lapidge
- Publisher:
- British Academy
This chapter is primarily concerned with Anglo-Latin prose: that is to say, Latin prose composed in Anglo-Saxon England between roughly 650 and 1050. It poses the question of the extent to which Anglo-Latin authors were aware of different stylistic registers, and how well they understood what diction was appropriate to either prose or verse. Using the example of Bede as a starting point, the chapter provides a list of those features of poetic diction that are found, in varying degrees, in the authors of Anglo-Latin prose. The seven criteria presented provide a crude measuring-stick against which to assess the poeticism of the principal authors of Anglo-Latin prose. The study of poeticism in Anglo-Latin prose, and in medieval Latin literature in general, is a subject that awaits exploration.
Keywords: Anglo-Latin prose, poeticism, Bede, poetic diction, medieval Latin literature
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- Title Pages
- Notes on Contributors
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Connections in Archaic Latin Prose
- The Language and Style of the Fragmentary Republican Historians
- The <i>Bellum Africum</i>
- Hair, Hegemony, and Historiography: Caesar’s Style and its Earliest Critics
- Cicero’s Adaptation of Legal Latin in the <i>De legibus</i>
- The Language of Epicureanism in Cicero: The Case of Atomism
- Pope’s Spider and Cicero’s Writing
- The Impracticability of Latin ‘Kunstprosa’
- Poetic Influence on Prose: The Case of the Younger Seneca
- The Language of Pliny the Elder
- Omisso speciosiore stili genere
- The Poetics of Fiction: Poetic Influence on the Language of Apuleius’ <i>Metamorphoses</i>
- ‘Langues réduites au lexique’? The Languages of Latin Technical Prose
- Gregory of Tours and Poetry: Prose into Verse and Verse into Prose
- Poeticism in Pre-Conquest Anglo-Latin Prose
- The Varieties of Bede’s Prose
- Translator’s Latin
- Realistic Writing in the Tenth Century: Gerhard of Augsburg’s <i>Vita S. Uodalrici</i>
- William of Malmesbury and the Latin Classics Revisited
- Metrical and Rhythmical Clausulae in Medieval Latin Prose: Some Aspects and Problems
- Bibliography
- Index verborum
- Index locorum
- Index rerum
