Maya Maskarinec: City of Saints: Rebuilding Rome in the Early Middle Ages, The Middle Age Series, Philadelphia (University of Pennsylvania Press) 2018, 320 pp., ISBN 978-0-8122-5008-4, $ 55,–.
Review(s) of: City of saints. Rebuilding Rome in the early middle ages, by Maskarinec, Maya, (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018) hardcover, 320 pages, 21 colour and 33 b/w illustrations, USD 55.00; ISBN: 9780812250084.
The paper examines what texts of Christian poets were used by Bede the Venerable in his De arte metrica; how he quoted them. It is discussed how the norms of classical poetry were superseded in the schools of the early Middle Age, and how they were replaced by Christian ones.
Bede the Venerable’s De Arte Metrica and Christianization of the education in the early Middle Ages