Who’s the Dude? A Historical Profile of the Critical Reception of Johannes De Hauvilla’s Architrenius
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 20248162 |
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| Authors | Lorenzo Carlucci (0000-0001-8238-0315, Sapienza University of Rome, corresponding author), Laura Mariño (0000-0003-1658-7179, Telio (Norway)) |
| Year | 2025 |
| Volume | 14 |
| Issue | 8 |
| Pages | 156 |
| Publication date | 2025-07-25 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Humanities (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2076-0787 • E-ISSN: 2076-0787 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/h14080156 |
| OpenAlex | W4413095861 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 11 |
Medieval and modern readers of Johannes de Hauvilla’s late XII-century Latin poem Architrenius have proposed an array of discordant interpretations of the eponymous protagonist. This paper offers a historical profile of the critical reception of this peculiar fictional character, tracing responses from the Middle Ages to the present day. Given the poem’s limited dissemination and the modest critical attention it has received in modern times, it is possible to provide a nearly comprehensive overview of the reception history of the Architrenius. We analyze and classify the terminology and the argumentative strategies used by critics in constructing their portrait of the hero of Johannes’ poem and observe how these choices interact with the overall critical assessment of the Architrenius. Our analysis identifies two principal families of readers—both philologically and thematically—suggesting a dual trajectory in the reception of the poem throughout the centuries
Argumentative · Art · Art history · Critical edition · Epistemology · HERO · Linguistics · Literature · Modernity · Poetry · Portrait · Praise · Reception theory · The Renaissance · Historical and Linguistic Studies · History · Medieval Literature and History · Philosophy · Renaissance Literature and Culture
| Highly cited | No |
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