Michael W Herren
Biographic Data
| ID | 1429428 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael W Herren |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael W |
| FAMILY NAME | Herren |
| SIGNATURE | HERREN M W |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 21 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 21 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1976 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Some New Light on the Life of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
Latin Letters in Early Christian Ireland
This book is concerned with the transmission and reception of Latin literary culture in the early Middle Ages, and with the production of Latin works in Ireland and in Irish centres on the Continent. In these articles, Professor Herren deals with several closely related themes: the introduction of Latin into Ireland and the study of Latin literary heritage; the language and metre of Hiberno-Latin writings; and questions of dating and authorship p…
On Editing the Poems of John Scottus Eriugena
Using the poems of John Scottus Eriugena as a case study, the author aims to show that glossaries that preserve the lemmata and glosses of a text in the same order as that of a codex unicus of the work can be used to construct the common exemplar from which the entries of the glossary and the text of the codex unicus derive. Thus, at least for Medieval Latin texts, glosses can be an essential component of the recensio codicum . The author argues …
Lorenzo di Maggio: Virgilius redivivus. Einführung, Kommentar und Übersetzung zu Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers
The Growth of Allegory
This chapter explores developments in allegorical interpretation promoted by the Stoics. Whereas allegorists in the Presocratic age interpreted the gods by their associations with natural elements (e.g. Zeus with lightning), the Stoics, who believed nature to be divine, associated the gods with the divine or cosmic elements (e.g. Zeus with the aether). The Stoics often turned to etymology to explain these cosmic connections; thus, Hera could be t…
From Allegory to Symbolism
This chapter explores psychological allegory and the transformation of allegory into a new mode of interpretation: symbolism. Analyzing Apuleius’s tale “Amor and Psyche” reveals that the god Amor (Cupid) and the girl Psyche are not mere disguises for love and the soul, but are intended as real characters coexisting with these hypostases. Whereas allegory strips away, leaving only what it wishes to reveal, symbolism is a palimpsest: it preserves a…
Towards a New Edition of the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary: A Sample
The Épinal-Erfurt Glossary (EE) is a Latin-Old English glossary written in England in the late seventh century. Its oldest witness, the Épinal manuscript, is dated to ca. 700. Although there have been a number of partial editions and several facsimile editions, the entire glossary has never been published. This article presents an essay containing the history of the scholarship, a full investigation of the glossary’s sources along with the method…
Classical Exegesis — from Theagenes of Rhegium to Bernard Silvestris
This article explores the methods that ancient philosophers and historians devised for the interpretation of Greek myths and examines their development in later ages. With few exceptions, poets were regarded as the authors of myths, with the result that much ancient myth exegesis was directed to authorial intention. Claims that the poets were liars were met with the defence that they wrote allegorically. Interpretation tended to be closely relate…
Crux-busting on the Danube: Uel Coniectanea in Cosmographiam Aethici, ut dicitur, Istri
A Sociophilological Study of Late Latin . Roger Wright
Glossae divinae historiae: The Biblical Glosses of John Scottus Eriugena . John Scottus Eriugena, John J. Contreni, Pádraig P. Ó Néill
"Walahfrid Strabo's "Libellus de exordiis et incrementis quarundam in observationibus ecclesiasticis rerum: A Translation and Liturgical Commentary. Walahfrid Strabo , Alice L. Harting-Correa
The transmission and reception of Graeco-Roman mythology in Anglo-Saxon England, 670–800
Rhetoricians, orators, and public speakers of all stripes, if asked the question, which Greek or Roman deity they should invoke in case of need, would surely answer ‘Hermes’ or ‘Mercury’. Members of this profession who also read early Latin-Old English glossaries might therefore be surprised to learn that the deus oratorum was none other than Priapus! This came as good news to me as one who occasionally looks for novel ways to arouse an audience.…
Virgil the Grammarian: A Spanish Jew in Ireland?
This is a detailed critique of two closely-linked theories on the origins and linguistic background of Virgilius the Grammarian. Bischoff, in a recent essay, expands on his earlier idea that Virgil was of Jewish origin, came from Spain or Septimania, and sojourned in Ireland. He argued that Virgil grew up in Hebrew and was acquainted with cabalistic techniques. Moreover, the influences of Vulgar Latin in his work point to a Continental rather tha…
Lateinische Epigrammatik im Hohen Mittelalter: Literarhistorische Untersuchungen zur Martial-Rezeption. Wolfgang Maaz
Jezebel: A Norman Latin Poem of the Early Eleventh Century. Jan M. Ziolkowski
The "De imagine Tetrici" of Walahfrid Strabo: Edition and Translation
Aldhelm: The Prose Works
The Making of Late Antiquity
The Hisperica Famina: I. The A-Text
The transmission and reception of Graeco-Roman mythology in Anglo-Saxon England, 670–800
Rhetoricians, orators, and public speakers of all stripes, if asked the question, which Greek or Roman deity they should invoke in case of need, would surely answer ‘Hermes’ or ‘Mercury’. Members of this profession who also read early Latin-Old English glossaries might therefore be surprised to learn that the deus oratorum was none other than Priapus! This came as good news to me as one who occasionally looks for novel ways to arouse an audience.…
The Hisperica Famina: I. The A-Text
Aldhelm: The Prose Works
The Making of Late Antiquity
The "De imagine Tetrici" of Walahfrid Strabo: Edition and Translation
Jezebel: A Norman Latin Poem of the Early Eleventh Century. Jan M. Ziolkowski
Virgil the Grammarian: A Spanish Jew in Ireland?
This is a detailed critique of two closely-linked theories on the origins and linguistic background of Virgilius the Grammarian. Bischoff, in a recent essay, expands on his earlier idea that Virgil was of Jewish origin, came from Spain or Septimania, and sojourned in Ireland. He argued that Virgil grew up in Hebrew and was acquainted with cabalistic techniques. Moreover, the influences of Vulgar Latin in his work point to a Continental rather tha…
Lateinische Epigrammatik im Hohen Mittelalter: Literarhistorische Untersuchungen zur Martial-Rezeption. Wolfgang Maaz
The transmission and reception of Graeco-Roman mythology in Anglo-Saxon England, 670–800
Rhetoricians, orators, and public speakers of all stripes, if asked the question, which Greek or Roman deity they should invoke in case of need, would surely answer ‘Hermes’ or ‘Mercury’. Members of this profession who also read early Latin-Old English glossaries might therefore be surprised to learn that the deus oratorum was none other than Priapus! This came as good news to me as one who occasionally looks for novel ways to arouse an audience.…
"Walahfrid Strabo's "Libellus de exordiis et incrementis quarundam in observationibus ecclesiasticis rerum: A Translation and Liturgical Commentary. Walahfrid Strabo , Alice L. Harting-Correa
Glossae divinae historiae: The Biblical Glosses of John Scottus Eriugena . John Scottus Eriugena, John J. Contreni, Pádraig P. Ó Néill
A Sociophilological Study of Late Latin . Roger Wright
Crux-busting on the Danube: Uel Coniectanea in Cosmographiam Aethici, ut dicitur, Istri
Classical Exegesis — from Theagenes of Rhegium to Bernard Silvestris
This article explores the methods that ancient philosophers and historians devised for the interpretation of Greek myths and examines their development in later ages. With few exceptions, poets were regarded as the authors of myths, with the result that much ancient myth exegesis was directed to authorial intention. Claims that the poets were liars were met with the defence that they wrote allegorically. Interpretation tended to be closely relate…
Towards a New Edition of the Épinal-Erfurt Glossary: A Sample
The Épinal-Erfurt Glossary (EE) is a Latin-Old English glossary written in England in the late seventh century. Its oldest witness, the Épinal manuscript, is dated to ca. 700. Although there have been a number of partial editions and several facsimile editions, the entire glossary has never been published. This article presents an essay containing the history of the scholarship, a full investigation of the glossary’s sources along with the method…
The Anatomy of Myth: The Art of Interpretation from the Presocratics to the Church Fathers
The Growth of Allegory
This chapter explores developments in allegorical interpretation promoted by the Stoics. Whereas allegorists in the Presocratic age interpreted the gods by their associations with natural elements (e.g. Zeus with lightning), the Stoics, who believed nature to be divine, associated the gods with the divine or cosmic elements (e.g. Zeus with the aether). The Stoics often turned to etymology to explain these cosmic connections; thus, Hera could be t…
From Allegory to Symbolism
This chapter explores psychological allegory and the transformation of allegory into a new mode of interpretation: symbolism. Analyzing Apuleius’s tale “Amor and Psyche” reveals that the god Amor (Cupid) and the girl Psyche are not mere disguises for love and the soul, but are intended as real characters coexisting with these hypostases. Whereas allegory strips away, leaving only what it wishes to reveal, symbolism is a palimpsest: it preserves a…
Some New Light on the Life of Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
Latin Letters in Early Christian Ireland
This book is concerned with the transmission and reception of Latin literary culture in the early Middle Ages, and with the production of Latin works in Ireland and in Irish centres on the Continent. In these articles, Professor Herren deals with several closely related themes: the introduction of Latin into Ireland and the study of Latin literary heritage; the language and metre of Hiberno-Latin writings; and questions of dating and authorship p…
On Editing the Poems of John Scottus Eriugena
Using the poems of John Scottus Eriugena as a case study, the author aims to show that glossaries that preserve the lemmata and glosses of a text in the same order as that of a codex unicus of the work can be used to construct the common exemplar from which the entries of the glossary and the text of the codex unicus derive. Thus, at least for Medieval Latin texts, glosses can be an essential component of the recensio codicum . The author argues …
Lorenzo di Maggio: Virgilius redivivus. Einführung, Kommentar und Übersetzung zu Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
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