Early Christian Latin Poets

✍ Scribed by White, Carolinne

• Publisher: Routledge; Taylor and Francis
• Year: 2000;2002
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 206
• Series: Early church fathers
• Edition: 1st ed
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Christian Latin poetry from the fourth to sixth centuries was hugely influential on English and French medieval literature. In this, the first substantial overview of this poetry, Carolinne White sets the works in their literary and historical context, including translations of over thirty poems and excerpts, many never translated into English before.

✦ Table of Contents

Early Christian Latin Poets (2000)......Page 1
THE EARLY CHURCH FATHERS......Page 3
ISBN: 0415187834......Page 5
--> CONTENTS......Page 6
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 9
PREFACE......Page 10
PART 1: INTRODUCTION......Page 12
BACKGROUND TO THE TEXTS......Page 14
PART 2: TRANSLATIONS......Page 36
Lactantius......Page 38
Juvencus......Page 45
Proba......Page 50
Damasus......Page 53
Ambrose......Page 56
Augustine......Page 62
Paulinus of Nola......Page 68
Endelechius......Page 81
Prudentius......Page 87
Cyprian the Poet......Page 110
Sedulius......Page 116
Prosper of Aquitaine......Page 124
Claudius Marius Victorius......Page 129
Paulinus of Pella......Page 138
De Ligno Crucis......Page 147
Orientius......Page 151
Dracontius......Page 154
Avitus......Page 160
Arator......Page 170
Venantius Fortunatus......Page 175
GLOSSARY OF METRICAL TERMS......Page 180
NOTES......Page 183
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 194
INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS......Page 198
INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES......Page 202
INDEX OF LITERARY WORKS......Page 204