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This series is designed to provide bilingual editions of medieval Latin and Greek works of prose, poetry, and drama dating from the decline of the Roman empire to the rise of vernacular writing (roughly 350-1350). The original texts are offered on left-hand pages, with facing-page versions written in lively modern English, newly translated for the series. There are introductions as well as explanatory and textual notes.The Cambridge Medieval Classics series allows access, often for the first time, to outstanding writing of the Middle Ages, with an emphasis on texts that are representative of key literary traditions and that offer important insights into the culture of medieval Europe.

  • General Editors: Peter Dronke, University of Cambridge

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2 results in Cambridge Medieval Classics

Dante: De vulgari eloquentia
  • Dante
  • Edited and translated by Steven Botterill
  • Published online:
    16 October 2009
    Print publication:
    10 October 1996
  • De vulgari eloquentia, written by Dante in the early years of the fourteenth century, is the only known work of medieval literary theory to have been produced by a practising poet, and the first to assert the intrinsic superiority of living, vernacular languages over Latin. Its opening consideration of language as a sign-system includes foreshadowings of twentieth-century semiotics, and later sections contain the first serious effort at literary criticism based on close analytical reading since the classical era. Steven Botterill here offers an accurate Latin text and a readable English translation of the treatise, together with notes and introductory material, thus making available a work which is relevant not only to Dante's poetry and the history of Italian literature, but to our whole understanding of late medieval poetics, linguistics, and literary practice.

Gregory of Nazianzus
  • Autobiographical Poems
  • Gregory of Nazianzus
  • Edited by Carolinne White
  • Published online:
    24 August 2009
    Print publication:
    05 December 1996
  • The autobiographical poems of Gregory of Nazianzus, fourth-century Father of the Greek church, are remarkable not only for a highly individual picture of the Byzantine world but also for moments that are intimate, passionate, and moving. The book contains Greek text and facing English translation of a selection from his one hundred or so surviving poems. Gregory is best known for the five orations he gave in Constantinople but, De Vita Sua apart, his poems can only be read in a nineteenth-century Greek edition and have never before been translated into English. The selected poems highlight Gregory's spiritual outlook and also his poetics; Gregory shows his expertise in a variety of metres and literary dialects, deriving from his knowledge of classical Greek literature. The substantial introduction provides biographical information against which to set the poems, focusing particularly on the years which Gregory spent in Constantinople.