CAPELLA, MARTIANUS

märshēāˈnəs kəpĕlˈə, fl. 5th cent.?, Latin writer, b. Carthage. His one famous work, The Marriage of Mercury and Philology, also called the Satyricon and Disciplinae, is a long allegory about the liberal arts. Its popularity in medieval schools was universal. The author is also known as Felix Capella and may have lived in the 4th cent.

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Harmony and the Music of the Spheres: The Ars Musica in Ninth-Century Commentaries on Martianus Capella
Book by Mariken Teeuwen; Brill, 2002
Subjects: Harmony Of The Spheres, Martianus Capella--De Nuptiis Philologiae Et Mercurii, Music Theory--History--500-1400
...Pbilosophical and Literary Commentary, pp. 8-13. 35 Ibid., p. 16. `6 M. CAPPUYNS, Capella (Martianus), col. 838; W.H. STAHL, Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts I, p. 6. 37 She defends this argument not only in A Philosophical...
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Middle Platonism and Neoplatonism: The Latin Tradition - Vol. 2
Book by Ralph McInerny, Stephen Gersh; University of Notre Dame Press, 1986
Subjects: Neoplatonism--Influence, Philosophy, Medieval, Plato--Influence
8 Martianus Capella 8.1 INTRODUCTION There is considerable justification for linking Martianus Capella, the Latin writer who is described...1 For the text see Martianus Capella, edidit J. Willis Leipzig 1983...
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From Polis to Empire, the Ancient World, C. 800 B.C.-A.D. 500: A Biographical Dictionary
Book by Andrew G. Traver; Greenwood Press, 2002
Subjects: History, Ancient--Dictionaries
...Unexpected Classic , 1991. C.W. Marshall MARTIANUS CAPELLA (Martianus Minneus Felix Capella, fl. after 410) Martianus...R. Johnson, and E.L. Burge, trans., Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts , 2 vols., 1971...
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The Mythographic Art: Classical Fable and the Rise of the Vernacular in Early France and England
Book by Jane Chance; University of Florida Press, 1990
Subjects: Chaucer, Geoffrey--D. 1400--Knowledge--Mythology, Christine--De Pisan--Ca. 1364-Ca. 1431--Knowledge--Mythology, Classicism--England, Classicism--France, English Literature--Classical Influences, Fables, Classical--Appreciation--England, Fables, Classical--Appreciation--France, Fiction, French Literature--To 1500--History And Criticism, Green, Richard Hamilton, Mythology, Classical, In Literature, Shakespeare, William--1564-1616--Knowledge--Mythology
...historischen Classe der Konigliche-Bayerische Akademie der Wissenschaften zu Munchen . Munich, 1885. Martianus Capella. Martianus Capella . Edited by Adolf Dick. Corr. Jean Preaux. Bibliotheca Scriptorum Graecorum et Romanorum Teubneriana...
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A New History of Classical Rhetoric
Book by George A. Kennedy; Princeton University Press, 1994
Subjects: Oratory, Ancient, Persuasion (Rhetoric), Rhetoric, Ancient, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Greek--History And Criticism, Speeches, Addresses, Etc., Latin--History And Criticism
Martianus Capella Martianus' encyclopedia was written in Carthage about the same time that...10 Translation by Stahl, Martianus Capella, vol. 2. 11 See Stahl et al., Martianus Capella, vol. 1...
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Caprarola's Sala Della Cosmografia
Journal article by Mary Quinlan-Mcgrath; Renaissance Quarterly, Vol. 50, 1997
Subjects: Architecture, Renaissance--Appreciation, Art, Renaissance--Appreciation
...also Hyginus, g7 verso; Reisch, 7.1.29, and Capella, 8.851. 35 For the longitude and planetary nature...Leclercq, Auguste. Lastrologie grecque. Paris, 1899. Capella, Martianus. De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii. Ed. Adolfus...
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Planetary Diagrams for Roman Astronomy in Medieval Europe, Ca. 800-1500
Journal article by Bruce Eastwood, Gerd Braßhoff; Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, Vol. 94, 2004
Subjects: Astronomy, Europe, European history, Middle Ages, Research & development--R&D, Teaching
...the other two Roman authors, Martianus Capella and Calcidius, came new and...Capellan astronomy. It was Martianus Capella himself who reminded his readers...textbook only in the case of Martianus Capella, and this is inconsistent...
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Down to Earth and Up to Heaven: the Nine Muses in Martin le Franc's "le Champion Des Dames"
Journal article by Steven Millen Taylor; Fifteenth Century Studies, Vol. 32, 2007
...depicted as universal movers by Martianus Capella, as ambivalent influences by...whom Le Franc was familiar - Martianus Capella, Boethius, and Isidore of...fifth-c. (North African) Martianus Capella provided a pagan and abstract...
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The Creation Grove in the Cosmographia of Bernard Silvestris
Journal article by Mark Kauntze; Medium Aevum, Vol. 78, 2009
Subjects: Bernard Silvestris--Works, Cosmogony--Analysis, Description of the Universe (Nonfiction work)--Criticism and interpretation
...in the anonymous commentary on Martianus Capella, which is sometimes attributed...multivocationes) to be found in Martianus fable of the gods. (63) Likewise...interpretations. (64) In emulation of Martianus and Boethius, Bernard adopted...
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Logic and Lollardy
Journal article by Kantik Ghosh; Medium Aevum, Vol. 76, 2007
Subjects: De statu innocencie (Theological work)--Criticism and interpretation, Religious works--Criticism and interpretation, Theologians--Criticism and interpretation, Wycliffe, John (English theologian)--Criticism and interpretation
...nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii of Martianus Capella (as well as Cassidorus and...A Carolingian commentary on Martianus sums up these ideas neatly...Nicomachean Ethics via, interalia, Martianus Capella) to denote la vertu mystique...
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magazine articles on: Capella Martianus  - 2 results

 
 
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From West to East
Magazine article; Humanities, Vol. 31, May/Jun 2010
Subjects: Nonfiction, Theology
...the fifth century a.d. one finds the philosopher Martianus Capella writing that Psyche, at her birth, had been given...his contemporaries the memory image of Rhetoric as Capella painted her, that woman with "so rich a wealth of...
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The Medieval Antipodes
Magazine article by Alison Peden; History Today, Vol. 45, December 1995
Subjects: Geographical myths--History, Geography, Historical--History, Middle Ages--History
...written around 200 AD. Even more important were the digests of geographical theory in the late antique works of Martianus Capella and Macrobius, both written in the early fifth century AD. Their claims that the earth was a sphere had been accepted...


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encyclopedia articles on: Capella Martianus  - 3 results

 
 
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Martianus Capella
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
MARTIANUS CAPELLA see Capella, Martianus . ____________________ Copyright 2009 Columbia University Press. Used with the permission of Columbia University Press. All rights reserved.
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Capella, Martianus
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
CAPELLA, MARTIANUS marshea n s k pel , fl. 5th cent.?, Latin writer, b. Carthage...in medieval schools was universal. The author is also known as Felix Capella and may have lived in the 4th cent...
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Latin Literature
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...The philological scholars of the empire were numerous. These included Aulus Gellius , Terentianus, Macrobius , Martianus Capella , and Priscian . As the classical inspiration died, the tradition of Latin literature was borrowed from and carried...


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