{"product_id":"john-ridewall-fulgentius-metaforalis-9781837644759","title":"John Ridewall, Fulgentius Metaforalis","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Ralph Hanna\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Liverpool University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Europe - Medieval\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJohn Ridewall's \u003cem\u003eFulgencius metaforalis\u003c\/em\u003e is a moralising commentary on Fulgentius's sixth-century \u003cem\u003eMitologiae\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cem\u003eFulgencius metaforalis\u003c\/em\u003e has been edited before, nearly a century ago, by a great medievalist, Hans Liebeschütz; he, however, did not recognise that the manuscript he presented was a fragment, containing only about one-third of the whole. This volume provides Ridewall's entire text, as usually communicated, with a translation. In addition, it contains a substantial introduction; this outlines various difficulties in the transmission of Fulgencius and evidence for the work's extensive medieval reception. Annotation to the text identifies and indexes Ridewall's sources - most of his mythographic knowledge reflects either Remigius of Auxerre's commentary on Martianus Capella or the Third Vatican Mythographer; and offers one manuscript tabula\/index, useful for seeing how readers may have accessed the work piecemeal (by manuscript consultation, not, as frequently claimed, as a set of 'memory diagrams').\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Liverpool University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47779519594647,"sku":"9781837644759","price":22312.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781837644759.webp?v=1778037169","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/john-ridewall-fulgentius-metaforalis-9781837644759","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}