Jan M. Ziolkowski

Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin Jan M Ziolkowski

Explores the links between tales preserved in Latin from the Middle Ages and "classic" fairy tales from the collections of the Brothers Grimm and Hans Christian Andersen

The Medieval Latin Past of Wonderful Lies

Fairy Tales from Before Fairy Tales

Mary Jean Carruthers

Remarque Professor of Literature (Emeritus) Mary Carruthers

"A volume that will interest a wide spectrum of readers."--Patrick Geary, University of California, Los Angeles

An Anthology of Texts and Pictures

The Medieval Craft of Memory

Nota Bene explores a little-known juxtaposition of verbal text and musical notation in the Middle Ages. This particular intersection deserves attention from those interested in music, the reception of classical Latin literature, the history of education, and the development of punctuation. Between the late tenth century and the late twelfth century, the musical notation known as neumes was provided in dozens of manuscripts for, among other texts, a number of Horace's Odes as well as for sections of epics by Lucan, Statius, and Vergil. These materials constitute a paradoxical corpus of "classical poems in plainchant" that complicates our views of both how students learned Latin and what was being sung in an era most often associated with Gregorian chant. The book wrestles first with the literary-historical puzzle of why certain passages and not others were "neumed" and later with the ethnomusicological riddles of how, where, when, and by whom the passages were sung.

Reading Classics and Writing Melodies in the Early Middle Ages

Nota Bene

Solomon and Marcolf: Vernacular Traditions offers an array of relevant texts, in English for the first time, that display the mysteries of the "rogue biography" that is Solomon and Marcolf. The astonishingly varied and fascinating pieces have been translated from medieval and early modern French, Russian, German, Icelandic, Danish, and Italian.

Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin Jan M Ziolkowski

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