History and Literature in Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval West

Download or read book History and Literature in Late Antiquity and the Early Medieval West written by Neil Wright and published by Variorum Publishing. This book was released on 1995 with total page 330 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For the modern reader who wishes to come to terms with late antique and early medieval authors, it is vital to understand the ways in which their intellectual horizons were shaped by a wide range of sources, many now unfamiliar. Moreover, the manner in which prior texts, Classical and medieval, were taken over or recast sheds useful light on the texts themselves, their transmission, and on how they were perceived by a succession of readers. This collection of essays accordingly offers a new discussion of several early writers in terms both of how their own reading influenced them and of how they in turn influenced those who read them.