Late Antiquity, New Departures

Formisano, Marco

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“…26 See especially Formisano 2007Formisano , 2012Formisano and 2014, and his contribution to Poetics. 27 Roberts' analysis of the elegiac tradition in Poetics is a notable exception.…”

Section: Periodisation and The Limits Of 'Late Latin Poetry'mentioning

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Thirty Years of the ‘Jeweled Style’

O’Hogan

2019

J. Rom. Stud.

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In seventh-century Wiltshire, a scholar-monk began to write classicising Latin poetry. In bold terms he describes himself as the first of the Germanic peoples to write Latin poetry (‘neminem nostrae stirpis prosapia genitum et Germanicae gentis cunabulis confotum in huiuscemodi negotio [i.e. poetry] ante nostram mediocritatem tantopere desudasse’). His programmatic statements cite Virgil explicitly, and allude to Prudentius and Sedulius. His is a poetry that sets out a stall for the beginning of something new, but does so by making clear his predecessors. For Aldhelm, as for much of the Middle Ages, the canonical models of Latin poetry included classical Latin authors as well as the Christian Latin poets of Late Antiquity.

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“…26 See especially Formisano 2007Formisano , 2012Formisano and 2014, and his contribution to Poetics. 27 Roberts' analysis of the elegiac tradition in Poetics is a notable exception.…”

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Thirty Years of the ‘Jeweled Style’

O’Hogan

2019

J. Rom. Stud.

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“… Herzog( 1989).  Peru na discussione generale intorno alla pervasività della dimensionep anegiristica in età tardoantica si veda Formisano (2012).…”

Section: Anacronicitàesostituibilità Dell'eventoi N Ammiano Marcellino En Ei Panegyrici Latiniunclassified

Tarda antichità anacronica. Tra storiografia e panegirico

Formisano¹

2017

Imagines Antiquitatis

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This article explores late antique literarycultureb ym aking use of at heoretical paradigm recentlyf ormulated by the arth istorians A. Nagel and C. Wood in their book Anachronic Renaissance (NewY ork 2010). Though the period treated in the book, the Renaissance, is very different from late antiquity and though it concentratesonartistic productions, in my view the concept of anachronicity (whichisnot the samea sa nachronism) mayb ea pplied with profit to the studyo fl ate antique texts.I np articular, certain keyc oncepts such as the replaceability of the artistic or literaryw ork, imitation of works by themselves, and belatedness,w hich every work and text inevitablyb earsi ni tself,c an illuminates ome of the aspectso fl ate antiqueliterary production that are most interesting,but which are generallyneglected or treated in as uperficial wayp reciselyb ecause they are regarded as either secondary or not at all original. Thesec oncepts can offer al ens through which to read virtuallya ny late antique text,b ut here we concentrate on just two works,t he Res Gestae of Ammianus Marcellinus and the corpus of the Panegyrici Latini,for one reason abovea ll: both belong to literaryg enres,h istoriographya nd panegyric, which maintain ar elation with the past thatcan be defined as structural. While this is obvious in historiography, in the Panegyrici the sacred value of the past is actualized and projected onto the present time, of which the laudandus,t hati s, the emperor, is the perfect expression. At the samet ime, the past itself, vetustas,i sp resented in the guise of myth, thus undergoing aprocess of fictionalization which bears elements that destabilize the historiographic discourse, with which the genre of panegyric enters into open competition. In the work of Ammianus, which occupies aunique position within Latin historiography, traces of this samediscourse can be identified, indicating ac risis in historiographical representation. The paradigmo fa nachronicity throws new light on the close relation of the late antique text to the literary tradition of the past,which, it is true, has alreadybeen widelyinvestigated, but anachronicity makes it one of its most original and surprising traits. Anachronicity reestablishes the value of belatedness in such aw ay that the very definition of 'late antiquity' takes on an ew meaning,p reciselyb ecause 'late' is not limited to defining its chronology, but rather assigns it av alue thati sf undamentally aesthetic. PremessaParlare del concettod ia ntichità ed elle sue rappresentazioni in età tardoantica implica discuterel ' essenza stessa di quell'età che noi, impropriamente, chiamiamo 'tarda' antichità (Spätantike, antiquité tardive, late antiquity). La denominazione data

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Aspects of Solinus' Collectanea rerum memorabilium

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2014

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Late Antiquity, New Departures

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Thirty Years of the ‘Jeweled Style’

Thirty Years of the ‘Jeweled Style’

Tarda antichità anacronica. Tra storiografia e panegirico

Aspects of Solinus' Collectanea rerum memorabilium

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