Includes bibliographical references and index.

List of Illustrations -- List of Abbreviations -- Preface -- Peter Dronke and Medieval Latin at Cambridge John Marenbon -- An Annotated List of Works by Peter Dronke bearing on the Relations between Poetry and Philosophy in the Middle Ages / John Marenbon -- Uodalscalc-Studien IV: Mikrokosmos und Makrokosmos bei Uodalscale von St. Ulrich und Afra (1124-um 1150) (Augsburg, Archiv des Bistrums 78, fol. 72) / Waler Berschin -- Learned Knowledge of Arabic Poetry, Rhymed Prose, and Didactic Verse from Petrus Alfonsi to Petrarch / Charles Burnett -- Alcuin, Carmen ix and Hrabanus, Ad Bonosum: a Teacher and his Pupil write Consolation / Mary Garrison -- Cratylus Mediaevalis-Ontology and Polysemy in Medieval Platonism (to ca. 1200) -- Some Quantitative Poems Attributed to Comumbanus of Bobbio / Michael W. Herren -- Nisifortinus: le disciple qui corrige le maitre / Edouard Jeauneau -- Il Liber viginti quattuor philosophorum nei poemi medievali : il Roman de la Rose, il Granum sinapis, la Divina Commedia Paolo Lucentini -- Peter Abelard and the Poets / David Luscombe -- God and the Goddesses: Vision, Poetry, and Belief in the Middle Ages / Barbara Newman -- Amor transformat amantem in amatum. Bernhard vom Waging an Nicolaus Cusanus uber die Vision einer reformunwilligen Nonne / Paul Gerhardt Schmidt -- Illustrated Manuscripts of Petrarch's De Remediss Utriusque Fortunae, / J.B. Trapp -- Dichter und Philosophen-zwei zankdende Geschwister / Benedikt Konrad Vollmann -- Leda and the Swan: the Unbearable Matter of Bliss Marina Warner -- Originality in Medieval Latin Literature / Haijo Westra -- The Highest Form of Compliment: Imitatio in Medieval Latin Culture / Jan Ziolkowski -- Jaen de Meun and the Castration of Saturn / Jill Mann -- On the Text and Interpretation of Abelard's Planctus, / Giovanni Orlandi -- Una Scheda Per Ildegarde Di Bingen / Claudio Leonardi -- Dante's Averroism / John Marenbon -- List of contributors -- Indices.

A collection of essays written by pupils, friends and colleagues of Professor Peter Dronke, to honour him on his retirement. The essays address the question of the relationship between poetry and philosophy in the Middle Ages. Contributors include Walter Berschin, Charles Burnett, Stephen Gersh, Michael Herren, Edouard Jeauneau, David Luscombe, Paul Gerhardt Schmidt, Joe Trapp, Jill Mann, Claudio Orlandi and John Marenbon. It is an important collection for both philosophical and literary specialists; scholars, graduate students and under-graduates in Medieval Literature and in Medieval Philosophy.

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