Prudentius, Liber Peristephanon

The Latin text of Prudentius' Liber Peristephanon provided in this
directory is based on an out-of-copyright text to which some
corrections have been made.  It is not provided as an authoritative
critical edition, but merely as a working tool.  There are
doubtless errors contained in it (please advice
jod@ccat.sas.upenn.edu).  It is posted on the net at this time
(November 1993) as a complement to the newly published study by
Michael Roberts (Wesleyan University), *Poetry and the Cult of the
Martyrs:  The "Liber Peristephanon" of Prudentius* (Ann Arbor: 
University of Michigan Press, 1993:  [ISBN 0-472-10449-7]), which
is a scholarly study of these poems.  Professor Roberts' book is
the first in a new series (see below), all of whose volumes are
expected to be supplemented by free distribution of appropriate e-
texts on the Internet in this way.


The series:

               Recentiores:  Later Latin Texts and Contexts

Series Editor:  James J. O'Donnell (University of Pennsylvania)

          Editorial Board:  Paula Fredriksen (Boston University),
          James W. Halporn (Indiana University), E. Ann Matter
          (University of Pennsylvania), Carol Neel (The Colorado
          College), Stephen G. Nichols (The Johns Hopkins
          University), Mary Wack (Washington State University)

Latin culture survived Rome's fall by more than a millennium.  The
study of Latin texts and the cultural history they embody offers a
rich vein still far from exhaustively mined.  This series will
embrace monographs, critical texts, and annotated translations from
any period in the history of post-classical Latin writing. 
Literary history, manuscript studies, cultural history, the
'liberal arts' and the technical literature they spawn, and what
may still be called 'intellectual history' of all periods will be
welcome -- from late antiquity to the Renaissance and beyond.  

The following volumes have appeared or are firmly scheduled to
appear in early 1994:

Michael Roberts (Wesleyan University):
*Poetry and the Cult of the Martyrs:  The "Liber Peristephanon" of
  Prudentius*
Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 1993 [available now]
232 pages
ISBN 0-472-10449-7

Robert Hollander (Princeton University)
*Dante's Epistle to Cangrande*
Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 1994 [due in February]
150 pages
ISBN 0-472-10476-4

Siegfried Wenzel (University of Pennsylvania)
*Macaronic Sermons:  Bilingualism and Preaching in Late-Medieval
  England*
Ann Arbor:  University of Michigan Press, 1994 [due in June]
c. 400 pages
ISBN 0-472-10521-3