TY  - GEN
TY  - GEN
T1  - Poems
T2  - Dumbarton Oaks medieval library
A1  - Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus, approximately 540-approximately 600, kirjoittaja
A2  - Roberts, Michael, 1947- toimittaja, kääntäjä
A2  - Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus
LA  - eng
LA  - lat
PP  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - Harvard University Press
YR  - 2017
UL  - https://kansalliskirjasto.finna.fi/Record/fikka.3143500
AB  - The present volume is the first English translation of all twelve books of Fortunatus's poetry. The only poem omitted is the hexameter Vita Sancti Martini. Books 1 to 3 and 5 are addressed to figures in the church or deal with religious matters; Books 6 and 7 are addressed to secular figures. Book 4 stands apart and is made up entirely of epitaphs, including to church and secular figures, and Book 8 gathers poems dedicated to the Convent of the Holy Cross, its founder, Radegund, and its abbess, Agnes, along with a succession of poems to Fortunatus's chief patron, Gregory of Tours. Fortunatus adopts a variety of tones in his poetic corpus, but characteristically praise of his subject or addressee plays a prominent role. The subjects include the great and the good in Merovingian society, from substantial panegyrics of kings to less ambitious compositions on bishops or other clergy that rehearse their virtues, including charitable, preaching, and building activities. Preserved among Fortunatus's poems are eight letters in prose--nine, if the dedicatory letter to Gregory is included--and two prose treatises, the first, on the Lord's Prayer, incomplete.--
NO  - Also includes "figure poems" (poems written in a specific type of figure, cross, etc.) on pages 827-830.
SN  - 978-0-674-97492-0 sidottu
KW  - Fortunatus, Venantius Honorius Clementianus : Translations into English.
KW  - Merovingians : Poetry.
KW  - antiikki
KW  - latinankielinen kirjallisuus
KW  - France : History : To 987 : Poetry.
ER  -