John Ridewall, Fulgentius Metaforalis

by Ralph Hanna

John Ridewall's Fulgencius metaforalis is a moralising commentary on Fulgentius's sixth-century Mitologiae, an introduction to the classical gods and their stories. Composed in Oxford in the 1330s and subject to almost immediate local (and broader English) use, the work was a pan-European success, and more than 100 manuscripts preserve Ridewall's text in some form. Fulgencius metaforalis has been edited before, nearly a century ago, by a great...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1837644756
• ISBN13: 9781837644759
• Release Date: October 2023
• Publisher: Liverpool University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"