Year: 1969
Type: article
Abstract: Volume 2 of Viator has a strong medieval bias: out of twenty-two articles, only three touch on the Renaissance.Henry Ansgar Kelly's "The Metamorphoses of the Eden Serpent during the Middle Ages and Renaissance" focuses on the lady-faced Eden serpent of medieval literature, drama, and art and does not brood over the gradual masculinization of this human-headed tempter in the sixteenth century.In "Mehmed II the Conqueror and his Presumed Knowledge of Greek and Latin," Christos G. Patrinelis uses contemporary Greek sources to prove that the Italian humanists who portrayed the fifteenth-century sultan as a philosopher-king fluent in Latin and Greek were wrong: he knew neither.Charles B. Schmitt writes on "Theophrastus in the Middle Ages," confirming that direct knowledge of Theophrastus' works was very limited indeed in the medieval period, and that it was not until the fifteenth century that some of his more important writings were discovered.All three articles have useful bibliographical footnotes.Yet if Viator: Medieval and Renaissance Studies is to live up to its name, succeeding volumes will have to give the later period fuller -and more adventurous -representation.
Source: Renaissance and Reformation
Institution: University of Toronto
Language: English
Subfield: History
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2346573790