Martianus Capella and the Seven Liberal Arts

Volume 1
The Quadrivium of Martianus Capella Latin Traditions in the Mathematical Sciences 50 BC- AD 1250

William Harris e Richard Johnson com E.L. Burge Stahl

Columbia University | 1971 | 274 páginas | PDF | 9,71 Mb

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Part of a detailed compendium of late-Roman learning in each of the seven liberal arts, set within an amusing mythological-allegorical tale of courtship and marriage among the pagan gods. The text provides an understanding of medieval allegory and the components of a medieval education.

table of contents

Frontmatter

List of Tables Compiled from Book IX

Abbreviations

PART I. INTRODUCTION

Roman Science in Intellectual History

The Author

The Work

Sources

Influence

Manuscripts and Editions

PART II. THE ALLEGORY AND THE TRIVIUM

The Allegory and Its Sources

Religious Ideas

The Curriculum of the Seven Liberal Arts

The Trivium

Grammar

Dialectic

Rheotoric

PART III. THE QUADRIVIUM

On Geometry

On Arithmetic

On Astronomy

On Harmony

PART IV. CONCLUSION

APPENDIX A Bibliographical Survey of the Seven Liberal Arts in Medieval and Renaissance Iconography

APPENDIX B Hapax Legomena and Rariora from Books VI‐IX of the De nuptiis Philologiae et Mercurii

BIBLIOGRAPHY

INDEX