Early Medieval Glosses on Prudentius' &lt;i&gt;Psychomachia&lt;/i&gt;
Sinéad O’Sullivan
This book focuses on the glosses Prudentius’ Psychomachia as found in German or Weitz manuscript tradition. These provide a fascinating window to intellectual world of late Carolingian and Ottonian periods. Introducing reader rudiments Christian exegesis encyclopaedic information, they represent an important moment history early medieval thought instruction. In attention is redirected from philological concerns conventional glossing studies toward mainstream history. The first part examines manuscripts, function sources glosses. second provides introduction edition, together with diplomatic transcription Latin annotations three manuscripts.