Edited by Rita Copeland, Rosenberg Chair in the Humanities and Professor of Classical Studies, English, and Comparative Literature, University of Pennsylvania
Rita Copeland is Rosenberg Chair in the Humanities at the University of Pennsylvania, and a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America. Her fields of research include the history of rhetoric, literary theory, and medieval learning. She is a founder of the journal New Medieval Literatures, and co-founder of Toronto Series in Medieval and Early Modern Rhetoric. In addition to many articles, she has published the following books: Rhetoric, Hermeneutics, and Translation in the Middle Ages (1991), Criticism and Dissent in the Middle Ages (1996), Pedagogy, Intellectuals and Dissent in the Later Middle Ages (2001), Medieval Grammar and Rhetoric: Language Arts and Literary Theory, AD 300-1475 (with Ineke Sluiter) (2009), and The Cambridge Companion to Allegory (with Peter Struck) (2010).

• List of Contributors


• Abbreviations


• 1: Rita Copeland: Introduction


• 2: Rita Copeland: The Curricular Classics in the Middle Ages


• 3: Marjorie Curry Woods: Experiencing the Classics in Medieval Education


• 4: Rita Copeland: The Trivium and the Classics


• 5: Winston Black: The Quadrivium and Natural Sciences


• 6: James Willoughby: The Transmission and Circulation of Classical Literature: Libraries and Florilegia


• 7: Nicolette Zeeman: Mythography and Mythographical Collections


• 8: Rita Copeland: Academic Prologues to Authors


• 9: Jan M. Ziolkowski: Virgil


• 10: Suzanne Conklin Akbari: Ovid and Ovidianism


• 11: Alfred Hiatt: Lucan


• 12: Winthrop Wetherbee: Statius


• 13: Marilynn Desmond: Trojan Itineraries and the Matter of Troy


• 14: Ian Cornelius: Boethius' De consolatione philosophiae


• 15: Charles F. Briggs: Moral Philosophy and Wisdom Literature


• 16: Cam Grey: Historiography and Biography from the Period of Gildas to Gerald of Wales


• 17: Ad Putter: Prudentius and the Late Classical Epics of Juvencus, Proba, Sedulius, Arator and Avitus


• 18: Dallas G. Denery II: John of Salisbury, Academic Scepticism, and Ciceronian Rhetoric


• 19: Emily Steiner: Alliterative Poetry and the Time of Antiquity


• 20: Alastair Minnis: Other Worlds: Chaucer's Classicism


• 21: Andrew Galloway: Gower's Ovids


• 22: Robert R. Edwards: John Lydgate and the Remaking of Classical Epic


• 23: Daniel Wakelin: Early Humanism in England


• 24: James Carley and Agnes Juhasz-Ormsby: Survey of Henrician Humanism


• 25: David R. Carlson: John Skelton


• 26: Nicola Royan: Gavin Douglas' Eneados


• 27: Cathy Shrank: Finding a Vernacular Voice: The Classical Translations of Sir Thomas Wyatt


• 28: James Simpson: The Aeneid Translations of Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey: The Exiled Reader's Presence


• Select Bibliography of Ancient Sources


• General Reference Works for Reception


• Studies on Ancient Authors and Classical Reception


• Medieval: Primary Sources


• Medieval: Secondary Sources


• Early Humanism: Primary Sources


• Early Humanism: Secondary Sources

The Oxford History of Classical Reception in English Literature (OHCREL) is designed to offer a comprehensive investigation of the numerous and diverse ways in which literary texts of the classical world have stimulated responses and refashioning by English writers. This first volume covers the years c.800-1558.