TY  - BOOK
AU  - Westra,Haijo Jan
TI  - The Berlin Commentary on Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii Book I: With the Assistance of C. Vester 
T2  - Mittellateinische Studien und Texte
SN  - 9789004450936
AV  - PA6511.M3 
U1  - 001 23
PY  - 1994///
CY  - Leiden; , Boston
PB  - Brill
KW  - Allegory
KW  - Knowledge and erudition in literature
KW  - Learning and scholarship in literature
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; Acknowledgements -- Prolegomena to the Edition of Post-Carolingian -- Commentaries on Martianus Capella's De Nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, Books I-II -- Notes on the Text, Author, Date and Place of the Commentary -- Abbreviations -- The Commentary -- Index
N2  - This critical edition presents the only complete, later medieval Latin commentary on the first two books of Martianus Capella's influential handbook of the Seven Liberal Arts. Using his allegorical interpretation of the programmatic marriage of Mercury (eloquence) and Philology (learning) as a speculative, proto-scientific method of inquiry, the commentator provides encyclopedic coverage of medieval philosophy, theology, science, myth, language, literature and education. Intellectually the author is still connected with early scholasticism and the "School of Chartres," being more sympathetic to Neoplatonism than to the newly arrived Aristotelianism. He is particularly interested in the role of good works which he sees revealed sub integumento in the function of Iuno in the Capitoline trinity. The commentary seems to have been designed with a reading audience and a reference in mind. The present edition has been keyed to Dick's as well as Willis' editions of Martianus Capella
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004450936
ER  -