The conspiracy of allusion : description, rewriting, and authorship from Macrobius to medieval romance

PrefaceIntroduction1. Macrobius in the High Middle Ages Macrobius’s Contextual Environment in the Middle Ages Appendix: Saturnalia Manuscripts to the Early Thirteenth Century2. Macrobius on the Art and Modes of Description The Description of Erec’s Coronation Robe Ethos and Pathos in Description Description in Latin, with Special Reference to Macrobius The Descriptive Model as Archetype: Imitation and Emulation The Saturnalia’s Writing Program A Model for Original Description Reception3. Bridge Works in and between the Medieval Latin and Vernacular Traditions Description as Rewriting from Macrobius to the High Medieval Commentaries on Horace Medieval Models of Description Description in Classroom Compositions Twelfth-Century Commentaries on Horace’s Art of Poetry Bridge Works in Medieval Poetics Description as Topical Invention Imitation and Allusion in the French Tradition French versus Latin Rewriting4. Troy in Latin and French: Joseph of Exeter’s Ylias and Benoît de Sainte-Maure’s Roman de Troie Description in Joseph’s Ylias Description in Benoît’s Troie5. The Issue and Topics of Consent in Eneas, Erec, and the Bel Inconnu Consent as a Moral and Social Issue in Gradus amoris The Description of Consent in Gradus amoris6. New Modes of Description in Romance Narrative Insertions From Lyric Insertion to Narrative Investment The New Mode of Writing RomanceConclusionBibliography Primary works Secondary worksIndices Index of Titles Index of Names Index of Places Index of Subjects