Late Antique Literature in the Western Middle Ages
Joseph Pucci
Given the disappearance of Greek from late ancient curriculum in West, antique authors do not figure literary history Latin Middle Ages. Instead, reception literature Western Ages is dominated by and works. Some were read due to their auctoritas, including Ambrose, Augustine, Boethius, Cassiodorus, Gregory Great, Isidore, Jerome. But less obvious emerge shadows these giants, comprising a stable canon poetic school authors. By ninth century include Sedulius, Juvencus, Avitus, Prudentius, Prosper Aquitaine, Paulinus Nola, Arator, Venantius Fortunatus, Lactantius. Other writers added twelfth thirteenth centuries, some prose authors, but tells us only so much, noncanonical such as Ausonius, Ennodius, Dracontius, Tours, Orosius reveals selective acceptance based much on fate popularity.