Early Christian Latin Poets (The Early Church Fathers)

✍ Scribed by Carolinne White

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2000
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 205
• 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

TITLE......Page 3
CONTENTS......Page 5
ABBREVIATIONS......Page 8
PREFACE......Page 9
PART 1: INTRODUCTION......Page 11
BACKGROUND TO THE TEXTS......Page 13
PART 2: TRANSLATIONS......Page 35
Lactantius......Page 37
Juvencus......Page 44
Proba......Page 49
Damasus......Page 52
Ambrose......Page 55
Augustine......Page 61
Paulinus of Nola......Page 67
Endelechius......Page 80
Prudentius......Page 86
Cyprian the Poet......Page 109
Sedulius......Page 115
Prosper of Aquitaine......Page 123
Claudius Marius Victorius......Page 128
Paulinus of Pella......Page 137
De Ligno Crucis......Page 146
Orientius......Page 150
Dracontius......Page 153
Avitus......Page 159
Arator......Page 169
Venantius Fortunatus......Page 174
GLOSSARY OF METRICAL TERMS......Page 179
NOTES......Page 182
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY......Page 193
INDEX OF NAMES AND SUBJECTS......Page 197
INDEX OF BIBLICAL REFERENCES......Page 201
INDEX OF LITERARY WORKS......Page 203