The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories taken from the Sermones Vulgares of Jacques De Vitry

N., W. W.; Crane, T. F.

doi:10.2307/532952

The Journal of American Folklore

1891

DOI: 10.2307/532952

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The Exempla, or Illustrative Stories taken from the Sermones Vulgares of Jacques De Vitry

W. W. N.¹,

T. F. Crane²

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“…91 Skin whitening was widespread across a range of medieval texts: in cosmetic recipes for women's faces, 92 in literary works featuring Eastern rulers or Saracen princesses, 93 in representations of the biblical queen of Sheba, 94 and in miracle stories and preachers' exempla. 95 Even if readers of texts assumed…”

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Memnon in the Middle Ages: The Reception of a Homeric Hero

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Memnon, the mythic king of Ethiopia killed by Achilles during the Trojan War, had a double or fused identity in classical antiquity: both Asian and African for Greek and Roman writers because of his parentage and because of the geographical indeterminacy of ‘Aithiopia’ and of ‘India’, but definitely black-skinned for Roman writers. How was this figure received in medieval texts and images? This paper tracks Memnon through three textual genres from the twelfth to the fifteenth century – commentaries on Ovid, catalogues of famous men, histories of the Trojan War – and charts the ways in which his classical identity was overlaid and transformed by pro-Trojan sentiment, chivalric heroization and Christian sacrificial thinking.

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