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From: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture on behalf of John Dillon
Sent: ūri. 5.10.2004 00:31
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Subject: Re: [M-R] "Prosimetric"
And it´s a great book which belongs in every library!
Meg
Sometimes Google will help where on-line dictionaries fail. A Google
search for "prosimetric" just now yielded 151 hits; several of the first
of these either contain a brief definition or at least furnish the
corresponding noun "prosimetrum". A Google search for the latter
yielded 696 hits, of which the very first one
(http://www.boydell.co.uk/59914755.HTM/) provides a good answer to the
question "What does 'prosimetric' mean?".
Examples of prosimetrum familiar to many on this list include Boethius'
_Consolatio Philosophiae_, Dante's _Vita nuova_, _Aucassin et
Nicolette_, and Tolkien's _The Lord of the Rings_.
Best,
John Dillon
----- Original Message -----
From: "Postles, Dr D.A." <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Monday, October 4, 2004 9:55 pm
Subject: Re: "Prosimetric"
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> I've checked in a wide number of lit./linguistic works and can find
> no mention of it, presumably a neologism. Is it a quantitative
> approach to prosody?
>
> Trissotin
>
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> From: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and culture on
> behalf of Marjorie Greene
> Sent: Tue 05/10/2004 03:25
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: [M-R] "Prosimetric"
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>
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> I'm limited to an online (and obviously inadequate) dictionary at
> the moment and could not find "prosimetric" in it. I'm assuming
> it's used to describe something written in metered prose but
> somehow that sounds suspiciously like poetry. (I do feel like M.
> Jourdain in _Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme"...) May I know what
> "prosimetricity" or "prosimetricness" is?
> MG
>
> -- "John B. Dillon" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> medieval-religion: Scholarly discussions of medieval religion and
> culture
> 1) Phyllis Jestice wrote:
>
> > Today (4. October) is the feast day of:
>
> > Petronius (d. c. 445) Petronius seems to have been a Roman official
> > who became a cleric. He went on pilgrimage to the Holy Land,
> > returned to become bishop of Bologna in c. 432, and set out to
> > rebuild churches destroyed by the Goths---modeling them on the
> > structures he had seen in Palestine.
>
> A useful recent book on P. and his cult, with scholarly articles and
> texts of his prosimetric twelfth-century Life (BHL 6641) and his later
> medieval Office, is Enzo Lodi, ed., _San Petronio. Patrono della
> citta'e diocesi di Bologna_ (Bologna: Edizioni Renografica, 2000;
> xiii, 298pp.).
>
> P.'s basilica is Bologna's cathedral church, begun in the 1390s.
> Frontal views, showing the unfinished facade, are here:
>
http://www.comune.bologna.it/iperbole/amarconi/rds/antenne/bologna/spetronio.html
>
> The main portal
> http://www.settechiese.it/01_2001/img/pag_08.jpg
> is surmounted by the Madonna flanked by saints Ambrose and Petronius:
> http://www.settechiese.it/01_2001/img/pag_07.jpg
>
> This portal is noted for its early fifteenth-century reliefs by Jacopo
> della Quercia. These are shown and discussed here:
> http://www.bluffton.edu/~sullivanm/quercia/quercia.html
> Better photographs, with expandable jpegs, are at:
> http://www.thais.it/scultura/bosnpet.htm
> and
> http://www.wga.hu/frames-e.html?/html/q/quercia/bologna/42tempta.html
>
> An interior fresco by Giovanni da Modena shows Mohammed being tortured
> in hell:
> http://www.artnet.com/magazine/features/moore/moore10-2-3.asp
>
> This has been drawing some unfavorable attention lately:
> http://www.armyofgod.com/Mohameddemons.html
> and, for some context for the detail (well down on the page; search
> for"Petronio"):
> http://www.suprmchaos.com/bcEnt-Thu-062702.index.html
>
>
> 2) I wrote:
>
> > Today (4. October) is also the feast day of:
> >
> > Thomas of Celano (blessed; d. a. 1260).
>
> This will make better sense if one reads "d. ca. 1260".
>
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