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The works of the enigmatic seventh-century author Virgilius Maro Grammaticus ('Virgil the Grammarian') are amongst the most puzzling medieval texts to survive. Ostensibly a pair of grammars, they swarm with hymns, riddles, imaginary writers, invented words and attacks on authority.
Conventionally interpreted either as a benighted barbarian's unfortunate attempt to write a 'proper' grammar, or as a parody of the pedantic excesses of the ancient grammatical tradition, these texts are desperately in need of a reading which takes into account their many idiosyncrasies. Why should a grammarian preach the existence of twelve different kinds of Latin? Why should he attack the very notion of authority, thereby destabilising his own position?
The search for an answer leads via patristic exegesis and medieval wisdom literature to the tantalisingly ill-documented reaches of heterodox initiatory traditions.
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Authority, Criticism, interpretation, Ethics, Ethics, Medieval, Grammar, Historical, Historical Grammar, History, Latin language, Medieval and modern, Learning and scholarship, Medieval Ethics, Medieval and modern Latin language, Wisdom literature, Latin language, medieval and modern, grammar, Grammar, Moral and ethical aspects, Historiography, Seventh centuryTimes
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Wisdom, Authority and Grammar in the Seventh Century: Decoding Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
2011, Cambridge University Press
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Wisdom, Authority and Grammar in the Seventh Century: Decoding Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
2009, Cambridge University Press
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0511551339 9780511551338
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Wisdom, Authority and Grammar in the Seventh Century: Decoding Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
November 2, 2006, Cambridge University Press
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Wisdom, authority, and grammar in the seventh century: decoding Virgilius Maro Grammaticus
1995, Cambridge University Press
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0521471133 9780521471138
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