Compilation as Palimpsest: Tracing Origins of the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César in the Liber Floridus

TY - JOUR

T1 - Compilation as Palimpsest: Tracing Origins of the Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César in the Liber Floridus

AU - Morcos, Hannah

N1 - The research for this article was carried out with financial support from The Values of French Language and Literature in the European Middle Ages, an ERC-funded project running 2015–20 (PI: Simon Gaunt; grant agreement number 670726).

PY - 2021/3/19

Y1 - 2021/3/19

N2 - This article offers an initial assessment of the multiple and varied uses of a manuscript of the Liber Floridus as a source of the early thirteenth-century Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César. The material deriving from Lambert de Saint-Omer’s twelfth-century encyclopaedic compilation ranges from idiosyncratic chronologies and genealogies to his abridged versions of Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troiae historia and the Epitome of Julius Valerius. Uncovering the origins of these passages compiled in the Liber Floridus, alters our understanding of the composition of the Histoire ancienne and provides new evidence of the wider legacy of Lambert’s compilation.

AB - This article offers an initial assessment of the multiple and varied uses of a manuscript of the Liber Floridus as a source of the early thirteenth-century Histoire ancienne jusqu’à César. The material deriving from Lambert de Saint-Omer’s twelfth-century encyclopaedic compilation ranges from idiosyncratic chronologies and genealogies to his abridged versions of Daretis Phrygii de excidio Troiae historia and the Epitome of Julius Valerius. Uncovering the origins of these passages compiled in the Liber Floridus, alters our understanding of the composition of the Histoire ancienne and provides new evidence of the wider legacy of Lambert’s compilation.

M3 - Article

SN - 0929-8592

JO - Queeste

JF - Queeste

ER -