The introduction sifts the sparse documents of the period to provide a context for the poet and the historical figures referred to or mentioned in the poem (Duke Richard and his wife Gonnor, Duke Richard II and Robert the Pious, king of France), before it investigates Warner's sources and his use of Virgil and Horace's Ars poetica. [...] The edition, though hampered by the poem's transmission in a single codex and the paucity of comparative material written by Warner, reflects the editor's assessment of Warner as a poet and of the scribe. [...] I am grateful to the Department of Classics, University of Toronto, for making available to me the Gilbert Norwood Travelling Award which enabled me to consult the manuscript at first hand; to the Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris, for permission to use lat 8121A; to the readers for the Press of the Pontifical Institute of Mediaeval Studies; and to Dr. [...] Imagining that the appearance of the monstrous Moriuht foreshadows the end of the world, Warner appeals to God to have mercy on his people at the Last Judgement Warner now sets out the qualities and techniques essential for great poetry, qualities immanent in the work of Statius and Virgil. [...] Though documentary evidence for a chapter school in the Norman capital is lacking before mid-century, the abstruse character of Warner's poetry signifies that already in the early years of the century the foundations were being laid for the reputation that the school later enjoyed in grammatical studies.15 C. SOURCES OF MORIUHT In an often-cited passage Orderic Vitalis in the Ecclesiastical Histor
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Table of Contents
- Contents 8
- Abbreviations 9
- Acknowledgements 10
- Introduction 12
- A. Synopsis of Moriuht 15
- B. Warner and the Date of Moriuht 16
- C. Sources of Moriuht 18
- D. Moriuht: Genre and Themes 27
- E. Moriuht and Bishop Hugo 51
- F. Warner and Horace's Ars poetica 56
- G. Scotti peregrini 59
- H. Audience 62
- I. Structure of Moriuht 65
- J. Metre and Prosody 69
- K. The Manuscript: Paris, B.N. lat 8121A 74
- L. Edition of Moriuht 79
- Moriuht 82
- Text 83
- Translation 84
- Commentary 120
- Bibliography 216
- A. Primary Sources 216
- B. Secondary Sources 221
- Index Nominum 241
