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Trimalchio’s last will: shifting interactions between seeming and being
Journal of Historical Network Research, 2019 During the cena Trimalchionis – maybe the most prominent stage of Petronius Satyrica – we come to know of different testamentary dispositions whereby the focus is set on Trimalchio as legatee, heir, and especially as testator.
Elena Köstner
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Early Medieval Europe, Volume 33, Issue 1, Page 50-70, February 2025.Alienation of church property was in most cases forbidden under both imperial and ecclesiastical legislation. Nevertheless, between 592 and 599 Pope Gregory the Great dealt with ten cases in which property was either relinquished by churches or in which he deliberated whether to compel churches to relinquish property. His justification for disposing of
Roy Flechner
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Seen and named in narratives: denizens of hell in the early Middle Ages
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 4, Page 474-502, November 2024.This article discusses a special type of narrative: encounters with named individuals in hell. The catchment is broad (Homer to Dante) but the focus is on the early Middle Ages. Philological and literary techniques elucidate and reinterpret a number of important visionary texts, Anglo‐Saxon, Merovingian, and Carolingian. Boniface, Ep. 115 re‐emerges as
Danuta Shanzer
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Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, Volume 47, Issue 1, Page 31-44, March 2024.Abstract Charles Gildon (1665–1724) is known today as the ultimate hack writer of Restoration England. Nonetheless, his two fiction collections in the ‘rifled mailbag’ genre — The Post‐Boy Rob'd of His Mail (1692) and The Post‐Man Robb'd of His Mail (1719) — contain insights concerning the structures and practices of information gathering in early ...
Thomas O. Beebee
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The Carolingian cocio: on the vocabulary of the early medieval petty merchant
Early Medieval Europe, Volume 32, Issue 1, Page 57-81, February 2024.The word cocio (i.e. petty merchant or broker in classical Latin) was a rare term that after a long absence in written Latin reappeared in several Carolingian texts. Scholars have posited a medieval semantic shift from ‘merchant’ to ‘vagabond’. But this article argues that this consensus is erroneous.
Shane Bobrycki
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The Morosophistic Discourse of Ancient Prose Fiction
Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 2019 This essay explores a set of connections between philosophy and prose fiction. It combines a somewhat Foucauldian outlook on the question of genealogical filiation with a Bakhtinian interest in polyphony and heteroglossia. This is an overview of the
Erik Gunderson
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O perspectivă asupra lexicului comun latinei clasice și latinei vulgare [PDF]
Diacronia, 2018 Articolul are ca punct de plecare perspectiva diferită a latiniștilor și a romaniștilor asupra conceptului de ‘latină vulgară’, concretizată în polemica amicală dintre Pierre Flobert și Eugeniu Coșeriu.
George Bogdan Țâra
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De l’onirisme à l’ironie : les prestiges de la nuit dans l’Euphormion de Jean Barclay (1605)
Etudes Epistémè, 2016 Published in 1605 by the Franco-Scottish author John Barclay, the first part of Euphormionis Lusinini Satyricon abounds in night scenes, where the eponymous character is confronted with a series of ambiguous phenomena (will-o’-the-wisps, ghosts, dreams) –
Nicolas Correard
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Pontius Pilatus in der Darstellung des Bellum Iudaicum
Protokolle zur Bibel, 2016 The picture of Pontius Pilate, the fifth Roman governor of Judaea, is all in all a negative one but it proves to be the result of a complex literary strategy in Josephus’ Bellum Iudaicum.
Martin Stowasser
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