Spring/Summer 2009 - University of Toronto Press Publishing

m e d i e va l a n d r e n a i s s a n c e s t u d i e s
Through a Classical Eye
Transcultural and Transhistorical Visions in Medieval
English, Italian, and Latin Literature in Honour of
Winthrop Wetherbee
Edited by Andrew Galloway and R. F. Yeager
As students and scholars of Boccaccio, Chaucer,
and Dante know, late medieval writers were influenced
greatly by the work of peers that crossed
historical, national, cultural, linguistic boundaries.
Through a Classical Eye contains first-rate essays that
demonstrate a range of strategies for undertaking
transcultural and transhistorical studies of the late
medieval period, and examines medieval literature
and culture where English, Italian, and Latin materials
overlap.
Written in honour of the groundbreaking contributions
that Winthrop Wetherbee made to this growing
area of study, the volume’s contributors advance
his legacy and add to the burgeoning interest in
setting medieval literary studies into wide intellectual
and historical horizons. Divided into three illuminating
sections on Medieval Latin authorship, Italy and
the world, and England and beyond, and including
a personal reminiscence of Wetherbee by the noted
novelist Robert Morgan, Through a Classical Eye is an
outstanding collection that provides key insights into
medieval literature and culture.
Andrew Galloway is a professor in the Department
of English, Director of Graduate Studies in English,
and Director of the Medieval Studies Program at
Cornell University.
R.F. Yeager is a professor and Chairman of the
Department of English and Foreign Languages at
the University of West Florida.
The Letters of Robert
Grosseteste, Bishop of
Lincoln
Translated with an Introduction and Annotation by
F.A.C. Mantello and Joseph Goering
Robert Grosseteste (c.1170–1253) was an English
statesman, philosopher, theologian, and bishop of
Lincoln, and also one of the most controversial
figures in his country’s episcopate. His long life
coincided with the central period of institutional,
intellectual, and religious consolidation in medieval
Europe and his letters provide important insights
into the practices and preoccupations of the English
clergy and laity in the first half of the thirteenth
century.
This volume contains the first complete translation
of Grosseteste’s collected Latin letters and
shows that these were most likely chosen and
arranged by Grosseteste himself. Shedding light
on some of the period’s crucial debates on issues of
theology, law, pastoral care, and episcopal authority,
F.A.C. Mantello and Joseph Goering’s richly annotated
English translation makes his letters more
accessible than ever for scholars and students, and
for those interested in medieval history, religion,
and culture.
F.A.C. Mantello is a professor in the Department
of Greek and Latin at The Catholic University of
America.
Joseph Goering is a professor in the Department of
History at the University of Toronto.
Approx. 456 pp / 6 x 9 / April 2009
1 photo; 1 figure
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8020-9917-4 £50.00 $80.00 E
Approx. 608 pp / 6 x 9 / June 2009
Cloth ISBN 978-0-8020-9813-9 £85.00 $135.00 E
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