The Sacred and the Obscure: Greek and the Carolingian Reception of Martianus Capella
Sinéad O’Sullivan
Carolingian scholars paid considerable attention to the Greek found in Martianus Capella’s De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii, a late antique Latin work full of obscurities language and imagery. This article, focusing on glosses from oldest gloss tradition, demonstrates that range material was available ninth-century elucidate Martianus’s seems, at times, have served as means obscure. I argue their interest obscurity reflects widespread epistemology strategy concealment, hence intellectual investment Martianus. For readers, then, glossed manuscripts, however decorative it may been, also operated core medieval hermeneutics.
The Journal of medieval Latin