Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age

A Study of the Versus Eporedienses and the Latin Classics

By (author) Marek Tue Kretschmer

Book cover: Latin Love Elegy and the Dawn of the Ovidian Age

Extent: 180 pages

Publisher: Brepols Publishers

Subjects: Classical Studies, Literary Studies, Medieval Studies

Series: Publications of the Journal of Medieval Latin

Series volume number: 14

Language: English

Paperback (Published)

(February 2020)

ISBN: 9782503587035

Price: $100.00

In stock

The Versus Eporedienses (Verses from Ivrea), written around the year 1080 and attributed to a certain Wido, is a highly fascinating elegiac love poem celebrating worldly pleasures in an age usually associated with contemptus mundi. One of the poem’s intriguing features, its extensive use of the Latin classics, especially of Ovid, makes it a precursor of the poetry of the so-called twelfth-century renaissance. In this first book-length study of the poem, the author provides a historical contextualisation, a verse-by-verse commentary, a detailed analysis of the classical sources and a discussion of its similarities with contemporary and later medieval poetry.

  • By (author) Marek Tue Kretschmer