Browsing by Author "Ziolkowski, Jan"

Address at Morning Prayers, Memorial Church, Harvard University, 1988.

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (1988)

Address at Morning Prayers, Memorial Church, Harvard University, 1989.

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (1989)

Address at Morning Prayers, Memorial Church, Harvard University, 1990.

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (1990)

Address at Morning Prayers, Memorial Church, Harvard University, 1992.

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (2015-07-22)

Address at Morning Prayers, Memorial Church, Harvard University, 1997.

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (1997)

A Bouquet of Wisdom and Invective: Houghton MS. Lat 300

Ziolkowski, Jan Michael (Harvard University Library, 1990)

Cultures of authority in the long twelfth century

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (University of Illinois Press, 2009)

Ancient and medieval usages of the Latin noun auctoritas display an intrac tability that induced one lexicographer not fifty years ago to warn bluntly against trying even to translate it: The word auctoritas belongs to ...

The Great Mystery: Death, Memory and the Archiving of Monastic Culture in Late Antique Religious Tales

Dirkse, Saskia (2015-05-15)

The present study investigates attitudes towards and teachings about the end of life and the soul’s passage to the next world, as expressed in late antique religious tales in Greek, particularly from Egypt and the Sinai. ...

Introduction

Ziolkowski, Jan Michael (Dante Society of America, 2007)

Latin Literature and Frankish Culture in the Crusader States (1098–1187)

Yolles, Julian Jay Theodore (2015-05-15)

The so-called Crusader States established by European settlers in the Levant at the end of the eleventh century gave rise to a variety of Latin literary works, including historiography, sermons, pilgrim guides, monastic ...

Panel 3, on the subject of “The Students We Teach,” of the Curriculum Review Symposium.

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (2003)

Performing Grammar

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (Brepols Publishers NV, 2009)

Grammar and the schoolrooms in which it was studied were foundational in many branches of literary life throughout the Middle Ages. Although this generalization has relevance to arts and letters in most languages that were ...

Peter Abelard as textual critic and historian

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (Brepols Publishers NV, 2007)

As a letter writer Peter Abelard is known best for the autobiographical Historia calamitatum, which presents itself ostensibly as a consolatoria [epistola] to an unnamed friend, and his correspondence with Heloise, which ...

Report on the progress of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library’s Old English Series.

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (2013)

The role of interpretive studies in medieval Latin philology

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (Brepols Publishers NV, 2008)

Interpretation and philology have a long, rich, and complicated relationship. In one sense philology takes interpretation as its point of departure, while in another philology aims ultimately at facilitating or achieving ...

Straparola and the Fairy Tale: Between Literary and Oral Traditions

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (Johns Hopkins University Press, 2010)

Against Ruth B. Bottigheimer’s argument that the sixteenth-century Italian author Giovanni Francesco Straparola originated fairy tale in its best-known form, this article maintains that ancient and medieval texts contain ...

Talking Animals: address to alumni at the Harvard Club of New York.

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (1990)

Tiers of Joy

Ziolkowski, Jan Michael (Harvard University Library, 1995)

Tito Vespasiano Strozzi's "Ad psyttacum": A Renaissance Latin Poet Parrots the Past

Ziolkowski, Jan Michael (Harvard University Library, 1987)

Virgil, Abelard and Heloise, and the End of Neumes

Ziolkowski, Jan M. (Brepols Publishers NV, 2012)

From the tenth through the twelfth centuries some manuscripts containing Virgil’s poems contain the musical notation known as neumes. Thereafter such notation of Virgil apparently ceases for centuries. The neumes (and ...