Classical Poets in the Florilegium Gallicum

by Rosemary Burton

This book is a study of the excerpts from classical Latin poetry in the twelfth-century Florilegium Gallicum. It discusses the origin and purpose of the florilegium, investigates its circulation, in whole or in part, in a number of related manuscripts, lists a representative sample of the contents, and shows how the florilegium provides evidence both about the availability of classical texts in the Middle Ages and about the ways in which medieval...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3820475672
• ISBN13: 9783820475678
• Release Date: December 1982
• Publisher: Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der W
• Length: 408 Pages