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Old English Life of Saint Pantaleon. Old English text with introduction, translation and Latin version
, Brepols, 2024 Paperback, 160 pages, Size:156 x 234 mm, Illustrations:20 b/w, 5 tables b/w., Language(s):English, Old English, Latin. ISBN 9782503609256.
Summary The Old English Life of Saint Pantaleon survives in one eleventh century manuscript: it appears here for the first time in an easily available edition. This edition is based both on independent research and on the work of previous scholars. It is a challenging text, from a much-damaged manuscript, but well worth reading: it is interesting both from a linguistic point of view, as a testimony of late Anglo-Saxon language, and also as a sign of continental influence on Anglo-Saxon culture and of a change in literary taste in England on the eve of the Norman Conquest. It is preceded by a full introduction dealing with the history of the text, from Greece to Western Europe and the context of its translation into Old English. The text is accompanied by copious notes dealing with difficult passages and it is made more accessible by a Modern English translation. The edition is completed by a 12th century Latin version which seems to be the closer to its Old English counterpart. The edition is completed by an Anglo-Saxon glossary. TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction Old English Text and Translation Commentary Latin text Bibliography
litterature des questions et reponses dans l?Antiquite profane et chretienne: de l?enseignement a l?exegese Actes du seminaire sur le genre des questions et reponses tenu a Ottawa les 27 et 28 septembre 2009,
Turnhout, Brepols, 2013 Hardback, approx. 400 p., 160 x 240 mm. ISBN 9782503546865.
The questions and answer literary genre in Antiquity is most often associated with commentaries on the Scriptures. However in ways that remain largely unexplored by scholarship, this discursive technique was also put to good use in other genres as well. In what follows question and answer literature, long thought to be inherited from the dialogic method in philosophy, is studied in terms of its educational scope, in a Christianized world. Texts shaped in a question and answer format for a pedagogical purpose were certainly extremely popular in Antiquity and eventually evolved to the point that they no longer served as brewers of thought ? as was the case in philosophy? nor as instruments of memorisation, ? as the grammatical questions on Homeric poems ? but rather for the purpose of gathering short treatises or commentaries on the Scriptures or on teachings for the use of the Christian, layman or cleric. The texts gathered here explore the didactic perspective of the erotapocritic genre in exegetical texts, of the dialogue technique in initiation gnostic and Valentinian literature, and in Late Antique pedagogical literature, in the hopes of outlining not only their mechanism, but also their tone and intended public. Languages : English, French.
