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Type(s) de contenu et mode(s) de consultation : Texte noté : sans médiation
Auteur(s) : Holford-Strevens, Leofranc (1946-....)
Titre(s) : The Disputatio Chori et Praetextati : The Roman calendar for beginners [Texte imprimé] / Leofranc Holford-Strevens
Publication : Turnhout : Brepols, 2019
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (180 pages) : couv. ill. ; 24 cm
Collection : Studia Traditionis Theologiae (STT) ; 32
Lien à la collection : Studia traditionis theologiae
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Original text in Latin with parallel English translation; critical matter in English.
A late-antique exposition of the Roman calendar.00The first book of Macrobius' 'Saturnalia',
written probably in the 430s AD, includes a historical exposition of the Roman calendar
with a dramatic date some fifty years earlier, set in the mouth of the learned senator
Vettius Agorius Praetextatus, followed by more technical detail at the request of
an Egyptian named Horus, who as a foreigner is allowed to seek elementary information
for which no one brought up in Roman culture would need to ask. This text was excerpted
in early medieval Ireland, with some but by no means all its pagan matter excised,
to provide an introduction for those who at best understood the rules of this recent
import but not the rationale for them; it is quoted by Bede as Disputatio Chori et
Praetextati, Chorus being a corrupted form of Horus. The excerpt took on a textual
life of its own, which the present edition, the first devoted to the Disputatio rather
than Macrobius, seeks to clarify; it examines the manuscripts and the relations between
them, presents a critical edition with apparatus criticus and translation, and attaches
a full-scale commentary concerned above all with the information provided in the text
Sujet(s) : Macrobe (0370?-043.?). Saturnales
Calendrier romain -- Histoire
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 9782503584232. - ISBN 2503584233. - ISBN 9782503584249 (erroné)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb467293912
Notice n° :
FRBNF46729391
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
