Macrobius
Macrobius , fl. c.430, Latin writer and philosopher. His Saturnalia, a dialogue in seven books chiefly concerned with a literary evaluation of Vergil, incorporates valuable quotations from other writers. He also wrote a commentary on Cicero's Dream of Scipio, which was popular in the Middle Ages and influenced Chaucer.
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Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the Cults of Catholic Europe.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Christian Century; 1/23/2007; ; 700+ words
; Mysteries of the Middle Ages: The Rise of Feminism, Science, and Art from the...BEGINNING of the third section of Mysteries of the Middle Ages Thomas Cahill states, The Middle Ages are a great jumble. As I have put my manuscript together...
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The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World.(Review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2000; ; 700+ words
; The Middle Ages After the Middle Ages in the English-Speaking World. Ed. by MARIE-FRANCOISE ALAMICHEL...disparate nature of this literature. As a field the study of the Middle Ages spans a thousand years, comprising many languages, cultures...
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The music of the Bohemian Middle Ages.(history)
Magazine article from: Czech Music; 7/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; ...Renaissance period and now we are reaching the Middle Ages. There are perhaps two main impulses...remembered first and foremost that the Middle Ages represents and extremely long period...Pejorative connotations apart, the Middle Ages indeed differed its in ideals from Antiquity...
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Growing Old in the Middle Ages: 'Winter Clothes Us in Shadow and Pain.'.(Review)
Magazine article from: Journal of Social History; 6/22/1999; ; 605 words
; ...books on women and on children in the Middle Ages (The Fourth Estate, 1983, and Childhood in the Middle Ages, 1990), Shulamith Shahar now turns her...between different periods within the Middle Ages. Indeed, her examples and citations...
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The Making of the Middle Ages: Liverpool Essays.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Historian; 6/22/2009; ; 610 words
; The Making of the Middle Ages: Liverpool Essays. Edited by Marios...Merseyside, where interest in the Middle Ages has flourished in and especially...Enlightenment. The Making of the Middle Ages is understood, therefore, not in...
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Precarious Balances. The Middle Ages of the Next Millennium.(Review)
Magazine article from: Utopian Studies; 1/1/2001; ; 700+ words
; ...Goodwin, ed. Precarious Balances. The Middle Ages of the Next Millennium. Lanham: University...46.50. IN PRECARIOUS BALANCES: The Middle Ages of the Next Millennium, Charles Stewart...proceeds to describe what he calls the Middle Ages of the mind (that is, what popular images...
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God and Reason in the Middle Ages.(Brief Article)
Magazine article from: Contemporary Review; 4/1/2002; 241 words
; God and Reason in the Middle Ages. Edward Grant. Cambridge University...civilisation originated during the Middle Ages and that in this origin, the role...and retain - the view of the Middle Ages as one of 'unreason' and ignorance...
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Light on the dark ages.(Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History)(Book review)
Magazine article from: Quadrant; 1/1/2008; ; 700+ words
; Britain in the Middle Ages: An Archaeological History, by Francis Pryor...This last is the undramatic picture of the Middle Ages depicted in Francis Pryor's Britain in the Middle Ages, which follows on his earlier books Britain...
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The Monstrous Middle Ages.(Book review)
Magazine article from: The Modern Language Review; 4/1/2006; ; 700+ words
; The Monstrous Middle Ages. Ed. by Bettina Bildhauer and Robert...series of sessions on 'The Monstrous Middle Ages' at the International Medieval Congress...which monstrosity was put in the Middle Ages' (p. 2). The distinction is an important...
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Sculpture: The Great Art of the Middle Ages from the 5th to the 15th Century.
Magazine article from: National Review; 12/17/1990; ; 305 words
; The Great Art of the Middle Ages from the 5th to the 15th Century...suggests the cloistral seclusion of the Middle Ages. Duby and his co-authors explore...raw and beautiful art of the early Middle Ages. Following fast upon the staid neo-classici...
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‘Somnium Scipionis’
Book article from: The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature
...s treatise breaks off early in the last book, and the survival of the Somnium is due to its being reproduced by a certain Macrobius, who in the 4th cent. ad furnished it with a Neoplatonist commentary that interested medieval thinkers. The fable relates...
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Latin literature
Book article from: The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition
...was a noted historian. The philological scholars of the empire were numerous. These included Aulus Gellius , Terentianus, Macrobius , Martianus Capella , and Priscian . As the classical inspiration died, the tradition of Latin literature was borrowed from...
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