Medieval and Early Modern Portrayals of Julius Caesar
«The book will therefore be of interest not only to scholars of English literature, Mortimer's home turf, but also to scholars working in faculties of history and medieval and modern languages.»
John Colley, The Cambridge Quarterly
Julius Caesar, ancient Rome's most colourful leader, has been a subject of controversy for more than two thousand years. In the classical world he was celebrated as an inspired military commander, as a law-giver and orator possessed of outstanding drive and intellect. Les mer
murder-the world's most famous political assassination-began a process which led to the inauguration of the imperial rule that would last for the rest of Roman time.
Throughout the medieval and early modern periods Caesar was central to narratives of conquest and resistance, of kingship and subjecthood, of liberty and despotism. There was a time, however, when he was not the most storied figure from classical antiquity. The post-classical phenomenon of a chimerical and ambiguous Caesar is born in thirteenth-century France when the author of the Li Fet des Romains, a monumental prose life of Caesar, chose to complicate the influential view of a
monstrous Caesar found in Lucan's epic poem Bellum civile: this decision gave birth to the complex figure that has fascinated ever since.
This book offers original translations of texts written between 1170 and 1574 in French, Latin, Italian, and Middle English, accompanied by commentaries which enable the reader to chart the evolution of the Caesar phenomenon throughout the medieval period right up to his first appearances on the early modern stage.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Oxford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9780198847564
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 25 x 18 cm
Anmeldelser
«The book will therefore be of interest not only to scholars of English literature, Mortimer's home turf, but also to scholars working in faculties of history and medieval and modern languages.»
John Colley, The Cambridge Quarterly
«Quite possibly everything you have ever wanted to know about Gaius Julius Caesar-the great general, inspired statesman, gifted orator, driven intellect, and controversial Roman leader-is found within these 700 pages.»
Raymond J. Cormier, Longwood University, Emeritus, Speculum 97/3
«Impressive ... if the generic and chronological range of Mortimer's Caesar were not enough, the book also has a broad linguistic range ... The book will therefore be of interest not only to scholars of English literature, Mortimer's home turf, but also to scholars working in faculties of history and medieval and modern languages.»
John Colley, Cambridge Quarterly