Writing Ravenna: The Liber Pontificalis of Andreas Agnellus (Recentiores: Later Latin Texts & Contexts) - Hardcover
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The subject of Writing Ravenna is the Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis, composed by Agnellus Andreas, a priest of Ravenna, between 830 and 845 C.E. The Liber Pontificalis has often been studied as a source for ecclesiastical and art history, but hardly ever as a literary creation, in spite of its originality and importance. Writing Ravenna is an attempt to deal with this work's literary significance and specifically with what it tells us about the creation and circulation of narrative in the Early Middle Ages. The book's first chapter analyzes the ways in which the local and international interests of the Ravenna clergy are reflected in the design, genre, and narrative rhetoric of the Liber. The second chapter characterizes the specific textuality, given that the Liber was composed for oral delivery. The final chapter offers translations of the four most interesting narrative sequences in the Liber, followed by full analyses of sources, narrative technique, and ideological aims. Writing Ravenna will be of interest to a broad spectrum of scholars, including art historians, scholars of late antiquity and the Early Middle Ages, religious historians, and literary critics. Joaquin Martinez Pizarro is Associate Professor of English, State University of New York at Stony Brook. He is also the author of A Rhetoric of the Scene: Dramatic Narrative in the Early Middle Ages.
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Joaquin Martinez Pizarro is Associate Professor of English, State University of New York at Stony Brook.
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Writing Ravenna is the first full-length study of the Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis, written by the priest Andreas Agnellus in the early ninth century. The Liber Pontificalis was intended as a chronicle of the city of Ravenna, which was successively capital of the late Western empire, of the Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy, and of the Byzantine exarchate of Italy. Ravenna constitutes one of the focal points of the late antique and early medieval world, and Agnellus' chronicle offers unique insights into the beliefs, values, and prejudices that informed an early medieval urban society's view of its past. A central feature of the text is unmatched in the historiography of the period: it reproduces the author's presentation of his work to its original audience and the lively dialogue with his fellow clergymen that accompanied the readings.
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Hardcover with dust jacket. Condition: Sehr gut. 213 p. Lediglich der Schutzumschlag ist leicht berieben. Sonst aber ein sehr gutes und sauberes Exemplar/ Only the dust jacket is slightly rubbed. Otherwise, however, a very good and clean copy. - Writing Ravenna is the first full-length study of the Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis, written by the priest Andreas Agnellus in the early ninth century. The Liber Pontificalis was intended as a chronicle of the city of Ravenna, which was successively capital of the late Western empire, of the Ostrogothic kingdom of Italy, and of the Byzantine exarchate of Italy. Ravenna constitutes one of the focal points of the late antique and early medieval world, and Agnellus chronicle offers unique insights into the beliefs, values, and prejudices that informed an early medieval urban societys view of its past. A central feature of the text is unmatched in the historiography of the period: it reproduces the authors presentation of his work to its original audience and the lively dialogue with his fellow clergymen that accompanied the readings. Writing Ravenna places Agnellus book in the historical and political context of ninth-century Italy and approaches it as a major document on the creation and performance of narrative, written and oral, in early medieval Europe. Four sequences from the Liber Pontificalis are translated into English for the first time and analyzed in depth, both as literary productions and as expressions of an urban clerical mentality. The translation and discussion of these sequences illustrate the citys exceptional cultural position between West and East and on the margins of the Carolingian world, which allowed Agnellus to draw on Latin, Byzantine, and Langobardic legends and chronicles in his narrative performance. Agnellus Liber Pontificate shows us a historical narrative taking shape, but it also shows its contemporary reception and the various ways in which the author sought to enlist the political sympathies of his audience and to satisfy his own literary ambitions and ideological biases. Writing Ravenna connects the Liber Pontificalis to the local struggles of the Ravennate clergy as well as to broader issues of Italian and European politics. Agnellus was an enthusiastic antiquarian, archaeologist, and epigraphist, and Writing Ravenna traces the impact of his work on the great artistic monuments of the fifth and sixth centuries that surrounded him and his fellow citizens, and of the ancient inscriptions that he collected and preserved. An analysis of Agnellus conception of oral and written language and of the function of images in art and religion makes it possible to outline his implicit response to eighthand ninth-century iconoclasm. This book will interest all students and scholars of late antique and medieval European history, art, and literature. CONTENTS: Politics Oral and Written Four Stories Attila at the Gates of Ravenna Rosimund Revised The Secret Massacre The Martyred Scribe Conclusion: The Narrator and His Audience. Andreas Agnellus of Ravenna (c. 794/799 after 846) was a historian of the bishops in his city. The date of his death is not recorded, although his history mentions the death of archbishop George of Ravenna in 846; Oswald Holder-Egger cites a papyrus charter dated to either 854 or 869 that contains the name of a priest named Andreas of the Church of Ravenna, but there is no evidence to connect him with Andreas Agnellus. Though called Abbot, first of St. Mary of Blachernae, and, later, of St. Bartholomew, Andreas appears to have remained a secular priest, being probably only titular abbot of each abbey. He is best known as the author of the Liber Pontificalis Ecclesiae Ravennatis (LPR), an account of the occupants of his native church, compiled on the model of the Liber Pontificalis, a compilation of the lives of the Popes of Rome. The work survives in two manuscripts: one in the Biblioteca Estense in Modena, written in 1413; the other is in the Vatican Library, written in the mid-16th. Seller Inventory # 1221482