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Some Recent Publications on the Classical Tradition in the Middle Ages and the Renaissance and on Byzantium

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  29 July 2016

Gerhart B. Ladner
Gerhart B. Ladner*
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Professor Hanfmann's publication of the season sarcophagus of Dumbarton Oaks is also a monograph on season sarcophagi in general and on the symbolism of the Horae and seasons in literature and art. The appearance of two important reviews by Professor Doro Levi and by Miss Marion Lawrence affords this writer an opportunity of re-evaluating his first impression of the book in the light of criticism by others.

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Traditio , Volume 10 , 1954 , pp. 578 - 594
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page 578 note 1 Hanfmann, George M. A., The Season Sarcophagus in Dumbarton Oaks (Dumbarton Oaks Studies 2; Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1951) 2 vols., 280 and 238 pp., 150 figs.Google Scholar

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page 581 note 1 Seznec, Jean, The Survival of the Pagan Gods: The Mythological Tradition and Its Place in Renaissance Humanism and Art , translated from the French by Barbara Sessions, F. (Bollingen Series 38: New York: Pantheon Books Inc. 1953) 376 pp., 108 figs. (Originally published as La survivance des dieux antiques, Studies of the Warburg Institute 11; London 1940: the present edition has been revised by the author.) Quite recently an extensive and interesting review by Heckscher, W. S. appeared in The Art Bulletin 36 (1954) 306ff.Google Scholar

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page 584 note 12 Such views do not mean to exclude the role of Sicily and of Frederick II; nor do they overlook the obvious fact that in the late thirteenth and fourteenth centuries northern, and generally ‘medieval,’ influence upon Italian culture was not in every respect conducive to the Renaissance: beside Dante and Giotto there was, for instance, the truly Gothic architecture of Naples and Northern Italy. Even in Tuscany there was in the latter part of the fourteenth century a temporary reaction, Byzantine-Gothic in character, against the proto-humanistic and proto-Renaissance tendencies of late thirteenth- and early fourteenth-century Italy; see the brilliant and convincing book by Meiss, M., Painting in Florence and Siena after the Black Death (Princeton 1951), where the relevant developments in art and literature are related to fourteenth-century Italian religious thought and mysticism.Google Scholar

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page 585 note 1 Dumbarton Oaks Papers 6 (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press 1951) 251 pp., 15 plates. — Dumbarton Oaks Papers (henceforth DOP) 7 (ibid. 1953) 141 pp.Google Scholar

page 585 note 2 Dvornik, Francis, ‘Emperors, Popes, and General Councils,’ DOP 6.1-23.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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page 590 note 21 This fragment, mistakenly attributed by the council to St. Basil, is taken from the first of the two famous homilies In verba: Faciamus hominem ad imaginem et similitudinem nostram; the old but disputed attribution of these homilies to St. Gregory of Nyssa is now supported not only by E. von Ivanka, as noted by Professor Alexander, but also by Leys, R., S.J., L'image de Dieu chez saint Grégoire de Nysse (Bruxelles-Paris 1951).Google Scholar

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page 591 note 1 Rupert Martin, John, The Illustration of the Heavenly Ladder of John Climacus (Studies in Manuscript Illumination 5; Princeton: Princeton University Press 1954) 198 pp., 112 plates with 302 figs. — See also the author's studies ‘An Early Illustration of The Sayings of the Fathers,’ Art Bulletin 32 (1950) 291ff., and ‘The Death of Ephraim in Byzantine and Early Italian Painting,’ ibid. 33 (1951) 217ff.Google Scholar

page 591 note 2 For the pagan and Christian origins of this idea, see now the illuminating book by Jaeger, Werner, Two Rediscovered Works of Ancient Christian Literature: Gregory of Nyssa and Macarius (Leiden 1954).Google Scholar

page 591 note 3 Beside the literature on medieval virtue and vice ideology utilized by Professor Martin, the important book by W. Bloomfield, Morton, The Seven Deadly Sins (Michigan State College 1952), may also be consulted. [For further material concerning the mystical ladder in medieval western thought see also Mrs. Greenhill's study, ‘The Child in the Tree,’ in the present volume, esp. pp. 337, 343-9, 365-9 supra. — ED.]Google Scholar

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page 594 note 6 It seems, however, not absolutely certain that the title Πεϱὶ ἀποταγῆς βίου really signifies ‘On Renunciation of Life’ and not rather ‘On a Life of Renunciation.’ See Jaeger, W., op. cit. 75ff., for the ascetic use of the terms ὁ ϰατ’ ἀϱετὴν βίος, ὁ ϰατὰ φιλοσοφίαν βίος. Further philological investigation of this point seems desirable.Google Scholar