An introduction to the study of medieval Latin versification / / by Dag Norberg ; translated by Grant C. Roti and Jacqueline de La Chapelle Skubly ; edited and with an introduction by Jan Ziolkowski

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910138893503321
• Autore: Norberg Dag Ludvig <1909-1996.>
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Washington, D. C., : Catholic University of America Press, c2004
• ISBN: 0-8132-1634-6
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (245 p.)
• Altri autori (Persone): ZiolkowskiJan M. <1956->
• Disciplina: 871/.0309
• Soggetti: Latin poetry, Medieval and modern - History and criticism; Latin language, Medieval and modern - Metrics and rhythmics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 191-198) and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Prosody and accentuation -- Synaeresis, diaeresis, syncope, prosthesis, elision, and hiatus -- Assonance, rhyme, and alliteration -- Acrostics, carmina figurata, and other poetic devices -- Metrical versification -- The beginning of rhythmic versification -- Rhythmic versification and metrical -- Poetry -- Rhythmic versification and music -- Sequences, tropes, motets, rondeaux.
• Sommario/riassunto: Dag Norberg's analysis and interpretation of Medieval Latin versification, which was published in French in 1958 and remains the standard work on the subject, appears here for the first time in English with a detailed, scholarly introduction by Jan Ziolkowski that reviews the developments of the past fifty years.