The Cambridge Songs

The Cambridge Songs
Jan M Ziolkowski
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Hardback
h229 x 152mm - 475pg
10 Aug 2021 US
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9780674258464
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The Cambridge Songs, from the Latin Carmina Cantabrigiensia, is the most important anthology of songs from before the thirteenth-century Carmina Burana. It offers the only major surviving anthology of Latin lyric poems from between Charlemagne and the Battle of Hastings. It contains panegyrics and dirges, political poems, comic tales, religious and didactic poems, and poetry of spring and love. Was it a school book for students, or a songbook for the use of professional entertainers? The greatest certainty is that the poems were composed in the learned language, and that they were associated with song. The collection is like the contents of an eleventh-century jukebox or playlist of top hits from more than three centuries. This edition and translation comprises a substantial introduction, the Latin texts and English prose in carefully matched presentation, and extensive commentary, along with appendices, list of works cited, and indices.
Jan M. Ziolkowski is Arthur Kingsley Porter Professor of Medieval Latin in the Department of the Classics at Harvard University.
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ISBN-13: 9780674258464
Published: 10 Aug 2021
Published In: United States
Imprint: Harvard Department of the Classics
Publisher: Harvard Department of the Classics
Format: Hardback
Height: 229mm
Width: 152mm
Pages: 475

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