Martianus Capella and the Liberal Arts
Andrew A. Hicks
This article addresses the ubiquitous matrix of cultural capital in Latin Middle Ages, namely liberal arts through lively panoply Martianus's disciplinae cyclicae. is carried out company other divisions knowledge within which were differently subsumed at different periods reception text: Boethius, Cassiodorus, and Isidore Seville. The commentary tradition on Martianus Capella's fifth-century allegorical encyclopedia arts, De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, provides an enclosed rugged terrain to map differing conceptual frameworks gained pedagogical philosophical traction. remained ancient authority from his “re-discovery” beginning ninth century close twelfth. trajectory its medieval charted. Despite continuity ostensibly guaranteed by nearly uninterrupted use a single text, interpretative mutability nuptiis's elaborate frame provided site for continual renegotiation arts.
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