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Winthrop Wetherbee’s translation of Johannes de Hauvilla’s Architrenius marks the third volume of twelfth-century poetry that he has published in Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library series, following Alain of Lille’s Literary Works and Bernardus Silvestris’ Poetic Works. That these three authors are joined in this way is hardly surprising as they are often discussed in comparison to one another, taken as significant examples of the learned school-poetry of the twelfth century, and even evince some similarities in terms of style and

Already in 1881, Ludwig Traube recognized Ovid alongside Virgil and Horace as one of the three most influential classical poets among medieval readers and christened the twelfth and thirteenth centuries as the “age of Ovid” (aetas Ovidiana) because it was during this time that his work was most widely imitated. A worthy addition to this field of research is the latest volume of the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library, which collects “the surviving corpus of pseudo-Ovidiana,” that is, poems falsely attributed

In 2009 Wesleyan professor Michael Roberts published an illuminating monograph on the poetry of Venantius Fortunatus [The Humblest Sparrow] in which he argued cogently for the sixth-century Fortunatus as a bridge from the late classical to earlier medieval periods. The hefty volume to hand with eleven books of poetry includes well-loved hymns as well as figure poems, epigrams on miracles, and elegies in the voices of abandoned or exiled women, epitaphs, georgics, consolations, and religious poems. Creative and ingenious metaphors

The Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library continues to produce handsome and readable facing-page translations of important texts, many previously unpublished. This volume follows the 2015 translation of the Allegories of the Iliad by the same scholars and in the same series. As Goldwyn and Kokkini note in their introduction, Tzetzes, who died in 1180, could count on an audience familiar with both the source epics and with his allegorical method. They characterize Tzetzes as “a misunderstood genius forced into poverty by an anti-intellectual

The songs known as the Carmina Burana constitute the largest and most famous surviving collection of medieval Latin lyric. These two lovely volumes in the Dumbarton Oaks Medieval Library (DOML) series present for the first time the whole contents of the manuscript in Latin with English facing-page translation. They are edited and translated by classicist David Traill, who brings to this ambitious project deep knowledge of medieval Latin poetry and the Carmina Burana manuscript. The two volumes of Traill’s edition