A Late Antique Poetics?

The Jeweled Style Revisited

Joshua Hartman, Helen Kaufmann

• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Year: 2023
• Print ISBN:
  9781350346406
• Edition: 1
• eBook ISBN:
  9781350346420
• Topic: History
• Subtopic: History of Ancient Art
• Index: History

The poetry of the late Roman world has a fascinating history. Sometimes an object of derision, sometimes an object of admiration, it has found numerous detractors and defenders among classicists and Latin literary critics. This volume explores the scholarly approaches to late Latin poetry that have developed over the last 40 years, and it seeks especially to develop, complement and challenge the seminal concept of the 'Jeweled Style' proposed by Michael Roberts in 1989. While Roberts's monograph has long been a vade mecum within the world of late antique literary studies, a critical reassessment of its validity as a concept is overdue.

This volume invites established and emerging scholars from different research traditions to return to the influential conclusions put forward by Roberts. It asks them to examine the continued relevance of The Jeweled Style and to suggest new ways to engage it. In a joint effort, the nineteen chapters of this volume define and map the jeweled style, extending it to new genres, geographic regions, time periods and methodologies. Each contribution seeks to provide insightful analysis that integrates the last 30 years of scholarship while pursuing ambitious applications of the jeweled style within and beyond the world of late antiquity.

Table of contents

• Cover
• Half-Title Page
• Series Page
• Title Page
• Contents
• List of Illustrations
• Notes on Contributors
• Series Editor Preface
• Preface and Acknowledgements
• Note on Texts and Translations
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Part I The Formal Features of the Jeweled Style
• 1 The Decadent Prehistory of the Jeweled Style
• 2 The Greek Jeweled Style
• 3 Gilding the Lily: The Jeweled Style in Prose Panegyric
• 4 Learning the Jeweled Style
• 5 Quantitative Approaches to Late Antique Poetics: Enumeration and Congeries
• 6 The Jeweled Style and Silver Latin Scholarship
• 7 The Jeweled Style in Early Medieval Latin Poetry
• 8 Digression, Variety and Unity in (Late) Latin Poetry
• Part II The Jeweled Style and Late Antique Aesthetics
• 9 Metaphor Squared
• 10 An ‘Unjeweled’ Christian Style? A Look at Augustine’s Confessions
• 11 The Cento and Scripture: An Early Christian Debate over the Poetics of Exegesis
• 12 Jeweled Sea Storm Descriptions in Zeno of Verona (and Juvencus)
• 13 Allusive Clusters and Biblical Configurations in Dracontius’ De laudibus dei: A Christian Jeweled Style?
• 14 Vergil’s Children: Patterns in Christian Centos and Responses to Vergil’s Fourth Eclogue
• 15 Architectural Ecphrasis in Venantius Fortunatus: Beyond the Jeweled Style
• 16 The Jeweled Style in Late Antique Latin Epigram
• 17 The Jeweled Style and Neoplatonism
• Epilogue: The Jeweled Style in Context
• References
• Index Rerum
• Index Nominum
• Index Locorum
• Copyright