Marjorie Curry Woods
Biographic Data
| ID | 5596754 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Marjorie Curry Woods |
| GIVEN NAMES | Marjorie Curry |
| FAMILY NAME | Woods |
| SIGNATURE | WOODS M C |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Rochester |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1989 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Troy Books for Boys
This chapter examines two short classical works read by students at a lower level, and the interlinear glosses are more basic. They imprint on us the intimate, detailed knowledge of the words of the texts that the students imbibed. Both poems focus on issues of masculinity. In the Achilleid , the protagonist's mentors mirror his transitions from wild child to female impersonator to warrior in training, and his time pretending to be his own sister…
Memory, Emotion, and the Death of a Queen
This chapter deals with the attractive and doomed Dido as medieval manuscripts reveal their emphasis on her emotions, a focus illuminated by modern research on memory. It begins with Augustine's boyhood obsession with Virgil's Aeneid . While Augustine had a dismissive reaction to Virgil's hero Aeneas, he had an obsessive boyhood identification with Dido and her emotional pain. Augustine called his own memorizing of Aeneas's wanderings a forced pr…
Weeping for Dido
Weeping for Dido
Saint Augustine famously “wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword,” and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgil's Aeneid and other classical texts. This book takes readers into the medieval classroom, where boys identified with Dido, where teachers turned an unfinished classical poem into a bildungsroman about young Achilles, and where students not only st…
“You May Have Changed My Life”
Classroom and confession
The thirteenth century, a period that sees the growth of schools, also sees the growth of the confessional system. These two developments are not unrelated: the legislation of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 making annual confession to one's own parish priest universal and compulsory also renewed the call of the Third Lateran Council of 1179 for establishment of more schools and masters at cathedrals and churches to provide comprehensive pasto…
Magister Mathias Lincopensis
An unfashionable rhetoric in the fifteenth century
The Poetria nova of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, a medieval verse treatise on the composition of poetry according to rhetorical principles, was very popular as a school and university text during the fifteenth century, although it was not printed until the early eighteenth century. The intensified copying of and commenting on this text during the fifteenth century, the other contents of the fifteenth‐century manuscripts in which this text is found, its p…
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An unfashionable rhetoric in the fifteenth century
The Poetria nova of Geoffrey of Vinsauf, a medieval verse treatise on the composition of poetry according to rhetorical principles, was very popular as a school and university text during the fifteenth century, although it was not printed until the early eighteenth century. The intensified copying of and commenting on this text during the fifteenth century, the other contents of the fifteenth‐century manuscripts in which this text is found, its p…
Classroom and confession
The thirteenth century, a period that sees the growth of schools, also sees the growth of the confessional system. These two developments are not unrelated: the legislation of the Fourth Lateran Council of 1215 making annual confession to one's own parish priest universal and compulsory also renewed the call of the Third Lateran Council of 1179 for establishment of more schools and masters at cathedrals and churches to provide comprehensive pasto…
Magister Mathias Lincopensis
“You May Have Changed My Life”
Troy Books for Boys
This chapter examines two short classical works read by students at a lower level, and the interlinear glosses are more basic. They imprint on us the intimate, detailed knowledge of the words of the texts that the students imbibed. Both poems focus on issues of masculinity. In the Achilleid , the protagonist's mentors mirror his transitions from wild child to female impersonator to warrior in training, and his time pretending to be his own sister…
Memory, Emotion, and the Death of a Queen
This chapter deals with the attractive and doomed Dido as medieval manuscripts reveal their emphasis on her emotions, a focus illuminated by modern research on memory. It begins with Augustine's boyhood obsession with Virgil's Aeneid . While Augustine had a dismissive reaction to Virgil's hero Aeneas, he had an obsessive boyhood identification with Dido and her emotional pain. Augustine called his own memorizing of Aeneas's wanderings a forced pr…
Weeping for Dido
Weeping for Dido
Saint Augustine famously “wept for Dido, who killed herself by the sword,” and many later medieval schoolboys were taught to respond in similarly emotional ways to the pain of female characters in Virgil's Aeneid and other classical texts. This book takes readers into the medieval classroom, where boys identified with Dido, where teachers turned an unfinished classical poem into a bildungsroman about young Achilles, and where students not only st…
Art (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · History (4 works) · DIDO (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · 81.01 history of teaching (2 works) · Achilleis (Statius, P. Papinius) (2 works) · Aeneis (Virgil) (2 works) · Aesthetics (2 works)